Deliatyn

Deliatyn (Ukrainian: Делятин, pronounced [deˈlʲɑtɪn]; Polish: Delatyn), is a rural settlement in Nadvirna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.

[1] Together with Yaremche and Lanchyn it is part of a small agglomeration that runs along the Prut River valley between the Carpathian Mountains.

[4] Deliatyn became part of the Poland (together with Red Ruthenia) in the 14th century under King Casimir III the Great.

During the Soviet times, Deliatyn was famous by the Kovpak's Oak, which symbolizes the uncompromised hatred of Ukrainians towards Nazi Germany.

On 16 October 1941, the SS, accompanied by the Ukrainian militia and Hungarian Border Guards units shot 1,950 Jews in a forest.

[18][19] On April 28, 2022, the executive committee of the Deliatyn settlement council, as part of derussification and decommunization in Ukraine, decided to dismantle monuments-busts and memorial signs on the territory of the hromada, including a bust of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin on the territory of Deliatyn Lyceum No.

[23] The 1992 documentary film Return to My Shtetl Delatyn depicts filmmaker Willy Lindwer's travels with his father Berl Nuchim and his daughter Michal to Delatyn to "retrace the route his father had taken six decades earlier, escaping from the Nazis and to see how the area and its inhabitants had changed.

Coat of arms of Nadvirna Raion
Coat of arms of Nadvirna Raion