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Stovpyn (Stołpin; Столпин; Стовпин) is a village in the Busk district (raion) of Lviv province (oblast) in northwestern Ukraine.

Demographics
A January 2007 count indicated that the settlement of 183 people had seventy-four farms on 1.52 km2.

The population of the community in 1880 was about 965 inhabitants (573 Russians, 359 Poles, and thirty-one Germans). In addition to seventy-nine residents from twelve homes in the area of the rural manor house and farm, 886 others lived in 140 homes nearby.

Religion
Tallies from 1890 recorded membership numbers for the following denominations: 497 Greek Catholic, 419 Roman Catholic, forty Israelites, and nine other faiths. Dedicated to the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the village had a church. Parishes records were kept in Toporiv for Roman Catholics and in Bołożynów for Greek Catholics.

Geography
Forming southwest of the village church, Stołpin stream runs northeast and once joined in Kasztelański pond circa 1890 with the Kasztelan (also known as Baczki) stream, which still flows northeast of the village. Downstream, the water also once passed through a Toporiv pond, eventually, as today, becoming one arm of the Styr River.

Government
Local representation within the Busk district is through the Chanyzka Local Council with two other communities and twenty-three other councils in the district.

The village post office in Toporiv serves the settlement.

Nearby settlements

 * Toporiv (north)
 * Horbachi, Busk Raion (northeast)
 * Lisove, Toporivska village council (northeast)
 * Bazhany, Busk Raion (northeast)
 * Turia, Busk Raion (east)
 * Bachka, Busk Raion (east)
 * Perevolochna, Busk Raion (southeast)
 * Pidstavky, Busk Raion (south)
 * Haivske, Busk Raion (west)
 * Lisove, Chanyzka village council (west)
 * Chanyzh (west)

History
In 1890, described as 30 km west of Brody village and 5 km southeast of Toporiv's fertile land, the community included groups of houses immediately west, north, and northwest of Stołpin named Lasowe, Czykal, and Kasztelan, respectively, as well as southern parts called Julianka farm, Bortniki, and to its east Kuliki. The larger of two recorded property areas consisted of 892 acre, 306 acre acres of meadows and gardens, 56 acre, and 571 acre of forest; the smaller property was, respectively, 523 acre, 421 acre, 43 acre, and 4 acre.

Translation (See table 1, Settlement subdivisions.)