Lopatin (Lviv region)

The first mentions of Lopatin were found in historical sources dating back to 1366. The village was then part of the volost center in the Old Russian specific Belz princedom, which from 1364 to 1377 . owned by Lithuanian princes. From the second half of the 14th century, Lopatin was often mentioned in historical documents. In 1377, the village came under Hungarian rule, since Lopatin was part of the border with Poland, therefore both Lithuania and Poland applied for the village.

The Hungarian (simultaneously Polish) king Louis I the Great gave it to the Opole Prince Vladislav, who placed the Hungarian garrison here. But after the death of Louis in 1382, Vladislav could not hold Lopatin in his hands and was forced to sell it to Lutsk Prince Fyodor Lyubartovich.

After some time, the Polish king Jagiello took Lopatin, and he became a royal village. In 1396, the king gave the district (including Lopatin) to the Mazovian prince Zemovit with the right to inherit. After many years of struggle, Lithuania again captured Lopatin with Olesk . But in 1432, the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund was forced to return Lopatin and several other border villages to Poland.

In the documents of the XV century. the village is also mentioned under the names Lopachino , Lopacin . During the years of the struggle between Poland and Lithuania, the Mazovian prince Zemovit built a church in Lopatin in 1413 , founded a Catholic parish and settled a priest here, giving the church the right to own the field and the inn.

In 1443, the church received the possession of the village of Batyev and the right to collect tithes from the population. The power in the town of Lopatin was in the hands of the warrior , who owned six lands of the land.

At the end of the XVI century. Lopatin has lost the status of the volost center and becomes an ordinary village in the Busa district of the Belz voivodship. After some time, Lopatin, together with the surrounding villages, passed into the hereditary possession of the gentry landlords.

Many disasters brought the peasants devastating raids of the Tatar hordes. During the Tatar raid in 1629, Lopatin was badly damaged. After that, only 56 yards could pay a lift (file from each yard). After 20 years, the Tatars again destroyed the village. Some residents were captured, many of those who hid in the surrounding forests, died of hunger and disease, drowned in swamps.

In 1772, the village, which was part of the Brodovsky District from 1782 to 1789 , came under the rule of the Austrian Empire . Most of the inhabitants of Lopatin were landlord peasants.

On the eve of the abolition of serfdom, the village was owned by a large landowner Count A. Zamoysky. Of 7145 morgues of Lopatinsky land that belonged to him, 3525 morgues were in peasant use.

From 1789 to 1867 the village was part of the Zolochevsky district, from 1867 to 1918 - in the Brodovsky district . From 1921 to 1932 the town was part of the Brod county of Ternopil Voivodeship.

According to the Austrian census of 1869 , 2159 people lived in Lopatin, and in 1900 - 3206 people, in 1941 - 4017 people.

On June 28, 1941, the German occupiers occupied Lopatin. In 1944 partisan formations under the command of P.P. Vershigory passed through Lopatin. Partisans took the village by surprise, so that the frightened German garrison did not have time to resist. Unfinished fascists fled to Radekhov. The partisans destroyed the telegraph line, blew up the local distillery and moved further west.

In March 1944, units of the Red Army liberated Lopatin. After fierce fighting in the Brody region, the Nazis again captured Lopatin for a while, but on July 17, 1944, he became Soviet. Units of the Tashkent Rifle and 174th Red Banner Sapper Regiments participated in the liberation of Lopatin. In the battles for the village, Hero of the Soviet Union officer Selenchuk and Sergeant Slantsov were especially distinguished, repelled the Nazi attacks for two days until reinforcements arrived. Many soldiers and officers died the death of the brave. Among them are sergeant K.P. Ryabikhin, privates I.P. Boyko, K.D. Gvozd, M.I. Polyakov and others. In the mass grave, which is located in the village square, more than 200 people are buried. In 1962 , a monument was erected here.

• The Roman Catholic Paraphilous Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, built in 1782 by Bernard Meritin , an outstanding architect of the late Baroque era, who worked in the western regions of Ukraine. Previously, there was a miraculous icon of the Lopatinsky Mother of God. Her image is placed on the coat of arms of the village. At present, in the church there is a copy of the miraculous icon.
• 18th century palace
• grave and monument of a Polish general, participant in the Napoleonic Wars and the Polish Uprising of 1830-1831. Jozef Dvernitsky , located in the local Catholic cemetery.

• Dovnar-Zapolsky M. From the history of the Lithuanian-Polish struggle for Volyn. K., 1896,
• Guslisty K. Narisi from Ukraine, VIP. 2.K., 1939
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110110121851/http://lopatyn.org.ua/
• Registration card
• http://www.castles.com.ua/lopatyn.html
• Radekhovsky district on the site "History of cities and villages"