Polivtsi, Ternopil Oblast

Polivtsi (Полівці) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada.

History
The first written mention dates from 1536.

Religion

 * Saint Nicholas church (OCU, 1884)
 * Saint Nicholas church (UGCC, converted from the RCC church in 2000)

People

 * Myroslav Motiuk (born 1950), Ukrainian doctor, lawyer, businessman, public figure
 * Isydor Nahaievskyi (1908-1989), participant of the national liberation struggle, leading specialist in the manufacture of missile weapons in the US Department of Defense, dean of New York University, author of scientific works
 * Vasyl Pohoretskyi (born 1954), Ukrainian publicist, writer, Doctor of Theology and Candidate of Historical Sciences
 * Volodymyr Pohoretskyi (born 1967), Ukrainian writer, editor, public figure
 * Nestor Chyr (1938–2014), Ukrainian poet, publicist, oilman (resettled in 1945 with his family to Ternopil Oblast during the deportation of Ukrainians from Poland and Poles from Ukraine)