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NOVYI YARYCHIV TERRITORIAL COMMUNITY

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The Novyi Yarychiv Territorial Community is situated in the territory of the Lviv District in the Lviv Region.

The total surface area of the Community amounts to 220 square kilometres.
Population: 18,725 residents
Men: 5,081 residents
Women: 6,330 residents
Children: 3,534 residents
Pensioners: 3,780 residents
Internally displaced persons: 250 people

The Community consists of eighteen localities: two settlements and sixteen villages, with its administrative centre being located in the urban-type settlement of Novy Yarychiv.

History

The localities of the Novyi Yarychiv Community have a long history; most of them were founded in the 12th – 15th centuries. The administrative centre of the Community is one of the most ancient settlements of the Prykarpattia region and is included in the list of historical localities of Ukraine. Novyi Yarychiv was also granted the Magdeburg Rights. The buildings of manorial estates dating back to the 19th century have been preserved there along with the gardens around them, which have the status of landmark parks of horticultural art of local importance.

Didushytchi Palace housing the Local History Museum, created by the locals

A manorial estate currently housing a hospital

The Church of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in the village of Pykulovychi built in 1792, an architectural landmark of national importance, and the Church of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in the village of Sokoliv built in 1677, an architectural landmark of local importance, are also impressive examples of the preservation of historical memory.

Church of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin

Church of the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin

The Church of the Annunciation renovated

Economy and Welfare

There are more than fifty industrial enterprises and twenty agricultural businesses operating in the territory of the Community. The essential operations can be observed in the food industry, where YARYCH, a well-known confectionery factory, is the leader.

YARYCH

In the agro-industrial sector, Central Plains Group Ukraine, a company which specializes in potato cultivation and production of potato products and is a partner of one of the largest buyers of potatoes in Eastern Europe, holds an important leading position.

Central Plains Group Ukraine

Special attention is paid to the improvement of socially important facilities, which are quite numerous in the Novyi Yarychiv Community, as well as landscaping.

The medical sector includes a polyclinic and a district hospital, which is being renovated to increase the number of beds, four outpatient clinics and nine paramedics and midwives centres.

Polyclinic with a renovated façade and a new roof

Purchased emergency medical assistance vehicles

The Community runs ten schools and five kindergartens. One of the great achievements was the construction of a sports hall at a school, which the children had lacked for more than thirty years. Now it is the centre of sports life of the entire Community.

A school sports hall in Novyi Yarychiv

 Opening ceremony of the gym

Renovated school canteens

Built kindergarten

A primary school with a renovated facade and a new roof

Renovated classrooms

The Community also runs fourteen culture centres, fifteen libraries, two local history museums and an art school. Various groups for creative development of children work at the local culture centres and organize activities such as dancing, drama, vocals, children’s orchestra and other musical instruments, drawing.

Children’s Brass Band “Merry Musicians”

Dance team “Fashion”

The Community also has a local fire brigade, police officers and a particularly important institution – a home for the elderly and the disabled, which houses twenty-five people needing specialized care.

Purchased vehicles for the Community police officers and local fire department

Roads partly overhauled

New treatment facilities installed

Community and War

When the war broke out, the leadership and residents of the Community have joined their efforts to help those who lost their homes, suffered from the enemy aggression, and the local residents defending Ukraine.

Since 24 February 2022, the Community has received more than 2,500 people seeking refuge. At first, they were accommodated at schools, and later the Community opened social homes, which currently houses seventy internally displaced persons.

The most priority area is assistance to servicemen from the Community. Military clothing, shoes, ammunition, and vehicles are purchased by the joint efforts of both children and adults.

Community leader Petro Sokolovskyi with 10-year-old boys who organized raised funds for the Armed Forces of Ukraine at their own checkpoint

Soldiers from the Novyi Yarychiv Community with charitable aid in the form of walkie-talkies

Bulletproof vests purchased for the military

Petro Sokolovskyi with a resident of the Сommunity who knitted and donated socks for the soldiers

Petro Sokolovskyi with the youth who organized a Christmas nativity scene in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

At the communal facilities of the Community, all volunteering residents weave bases for camouflage nets and the nets themselves, make trench candles

People of the Community

Petro Sokolovskyi is the head of the Novyi Yarychiv Community. He has initiated the ideas and driven all changes for the positive development of the Community. Over the three years of existence of the Community, many projects have been successfully implemented under his leadership, in particular, the state of roads, communal facilities, and landscaping has been improved.

Settlement Council Head Petro Sokolovskyi with his daughter Anna during the Easter spring dance song event

Petro Sokolovskyi with the winners of the charity football championship in the Community

Petro Sokolovskyi, Metropolitan of Lviv, Bishop Ihor Vozniak and abbot of the Church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Borshchovychi Fr. Ivan Dukhnych during the consecration of the local history museum of the village of Borshchovychi

Team of the Novyi Yarychiv Settlement Council on the Embroidery Day

But humanity always remains the most important value, helping those who need it most, as well as the happiness of children. Even in difficult wartime, they have realized the wonderful idea of the “Social Bus” running between all the localities of the Community and transporting people at no charge. This service is available only in one Community of the Lviv Region!

Also, the Head of the Community has initiated a good tradition: on the St. Nicholas Day, giving away sweets to all the children of the Community without exception, as well as food packages to the lonely elderly.

Become an Assistant of St. Nicholas event

Development Strategy

In November 2023, the Settlement Council approved the Development Strategy of the Novyi Yarychiv Territorial Community until 2027, which defined the main strategic goals for the further development of the Community, namely:

– Competitive economy – improving the quality of life and economic well-being of the population through the effective use of the existing potential and competitive advantages of the Community by way of stimulating the growth of innovative economy, ecologically oriented agriculture, increasing entrepreneurial activity.

– Development of human capital by investing in specific processes and improving the quality and availability of the services provided.

– Sustainable development of the territory – improving the comfortable and safe life of the population through sustainable development of the territory.

One of the priority strategic areas is the development of physical culture and sports, popularization of a healthy lifestyle. As part of this goal, the implementation of projects for the construction of multi-functional sports grounds, stadiums and pitches with artificial surfaces has already begun.

A stadium built in Borshchovychi

Another large-scale and important project, which is already at the stage of implementation, is the completion of a temporary shelter in the basement and additional educational premises at the school.

A school extended in Zapytiv

Source: United 4 Ukraine - Cities 4 Cities

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