Pidberiztsi Territorial Community

The head of the Pidberiztsi community is Vasyl Koval. He has been leading the community since its formation in 2017 and is actively working on the implementation of development projects, attracting business, establishing cooperation with foreign and Ukrainian partners, working with youth and the public.The charity Christmas festival, Let’s carol to God – let’s bring Victory closer! was held in Verkhnia Bilka. Talented teams and performers of the Pidberiztsi community sang vibrant carols. Visitors had the opportunity to enjoy dishes at the fair.Residents of the population centers of the Pidberiztsi community, adults and young people caroled, held festive nativity scenes, thereby joining the raising of funds for the needs of soldiers-compatriots on the front lines.It has already become a good tradition in the community to organize a drawing competition and invite participants to a tour and award ceremony at the local self-government body. The children dedicated their works of art to our brave soldiers. Therefore, the head of the community, Vasyl KOVAL, handed over all the drawings to the military from the Pidberiztsi territorial community who are currently defending Ukraine on the front line.The community is proud of its residents. The following public figures were born in the villages of the community: Sofya Yablonska – Ukrainian and French writer, world traveler, journalist, photographer and director; Yosyfa (Viter) – the first Ukrainian woman to be recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations for rescuing Jewish children during the Holocaust; composer Andrii Hnatyshyn, opera singer Roman Prokopovych-Orlenko and others.

Since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, the Pidberiztsi Territorial Community, like most of the rear communities, received and supported internally displaced persons, organized humanitarian headquarters and support for military personnel and their families.

In the two-year period, the community has actively supported servicemen who defend Ukraine on the front line with the enemy. During this time, the village head and representatives of the village council visited the East of Ukraine several times, delivering humanitarian goods, aid, technical equipment and cars to our defenders. In total, the community, patrons, and residents have purchased and donated 35 vehicles since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.A good friend of Ukraine and the Pidberiztsi community, Mr. Kees Stoppelenbur, was received as a guest. He, together with volunteers from the city of Schoonhoven (the Netherlands) has repeatedly delivered humanitarian aid since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

The first written references to settlements on the territory of the Pidberiztsi village community date back to the late 13th – early 14th centuries. The proximity to the princely city of Lev had a significant impact on their development: the area was settled by representatives of different ethnicities (which determined and shaped the traditions of local residents with “interspersed” customs of other ethnicities), as well as different hierarchical affiliations (not only peasants, but also nobles).

The territories of the modern Pidberiztsi community are particularly interesting for archaeological research. Settlements of numerous cultures were found there, in particular, there is the first settlement of the Veneds (Zubrytska culture) in the administrative center of the community.

There are monuments of cultural heritage in the community. The pride of the community and its residents is the Church of Archangel Michael, the works by outstanding artists Ivan Levinskyi and Modest Sosenko. According to the testimony of the villagers, Modest Sosenko used 25 kg of gilding to paint the temple. The unique stained-glass windows of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were also designed by Modest Sosenko and produced at a factory in Krakow. Instead of the usual church iconostasis, 12 figures of apostles brought from Rome were installed in the temple. In Soviet times, local residents had to hide them in the attic and paint over the artist’s signatures.

The church in Pidberiztsi is known as one of the model Ukrainian churches of Galicia, decorated in the national style. This is evidenced by the fact that the clergy and creative intelligentsia from Lviv liked to come to Pidberiztsi to see the temple paintings by Modest Sosenko. Andrey Sheptytskyi visited here in 1913, showing the temple to his foreign guest, Archduke Maximilian of Bavaria.

The community is finalizing the Development Strategy of the Pidberiztsi Rural Territorial Community for the period until 2027.

The strategic goals of community development are defined as follows: ensuring the quality of life of residents, developing a competitive economy, creating a comfortable living environment.

The strategic goals are planned to be achieved through the implementation of important socio-economic projects , in particular: construction of sewage networks and treatment facilities; repair of premises of executive bodies; a community building for the accommodation of internally displaced persons in two villages of the community; educational institutions equipped with anti-radiation shelters; boiler house of communal facilities for diversification of supply sources in conditions of energy threat; the building of the dispensary for the treatment and rehabilitation of servicemen, internally displaced persons and other persons who suffered as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation; projects for the improvement of the territory and arrangement of public spaces ; environmental measures.

Over the past three years, the Pidberiztsi Village Council has implemented the following main projects:

The buildings of the Pidberiztsi Lyceum were reconstructed and the premises for a kindergarten seating 40 children were completed.The renovated schoolHeating systems in schools and kindergartens of the community were modernized.
Football fields with artificial turf were built.A high-quality public space has been arranged in the center of the largest village of Verkhnia BilkaToday, the reconstruction project of the building of the Bilochka kindergarten in the largest village of the community is being implemented. The project is financed by the European Investment Bank within the framework of the “Extraordinary Credit Program for the Reconstruction of Ukraine”

The Pidberiztsi community has a favorable economic and geographical location: it borders the Lviv community and two important regional highways of international importance cross the territory of the community. Therefore, the community is attractive for entrepreneurs and there is also potential for the development of agriculture, transport, warehousing, and processing industry.

The system of social services to the population is actively developing in the community. There is an extensive network of preschool education institutions and six institutions of general secondary education. A stable increase in the number of students is being monitored. The village council is actively working to improve the condition of the buildings of educational institutions.A network of health care facilities was created in the community: two dispensaries of general family medicine and three paramedics.

• Official website of the Pidberiztsi Territorial Community pidberizcivska-gromada.gov.ua/
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