Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, it was annexed by Austria, and included within the newly formed Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

The Polish lawyer, diplomat, and the owner of the local oil refinery Stanisław Szczepanowski supported the idea of installation of the local railroad system that was proposed by Ludwik Wierzbicki, the head of Lviv-Chernivtsi railroad (see Lviv Railways).

[4] Before World War I on the outskirts of the town there was a palace of Potocki family, the biggest Polish magnates (landowners) in the territory of present-day Ukraine.

Following World War I, it was part of newly reborn Poland, within which it was located in the Kołomyja County in the Stanisławów Voivodeship.

On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Pechenizhyn became a rural settlement.