- Source: Vovkiv
Vovkiv (Ukrainian: Вовків) is a village in the Solonka rural hromada of the Lviv Raion of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine.
History
The village is known from 1447.
After the liquidation of the Pustomyty Raion on 19 July 2020, the village became part of the Lviv Raion.
Religion
Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary with a bell tower (1706, wooden, architectural monuments of local importance),
Saint Mary Magdalene church (1929, designed by architect Bronisław Wiktor, RCC).
Monuments
A monument to Kornylo Ustiyanovych erected on the territory of the Ustianovych Museum-Estate.
Notable residents
Kornylo Ustiyanovych (1839–1903), Ukrainian painter, writer and folklorist
Ruslan Zabranskyi (born 1971), Ukrainian professional football
Ivan Franko visited the village; the Czech ethnographer František Řehoř lived there.
References
Sources
"Wołków (1)". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 13. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1893. p. 871.