Tovstenke
Tovstenke is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Kolyndiany rural hromada.
Notable locations
Churches
There are two chapels in the village.Monuments
In 1921, on the initiative of оf Ivan Blavatskyi, the first symbolic grave of the fighters for freedom of Ukraine was built; it was restored in 1990.Monuments were erected to the soldiers-fellow villagers who died in the German-Soviet war, and to Ivan Franko.
Figures of the Mother of God and crosses in honor of the 50th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom were installed.
Notable residents
- Yaroslav Bilynskyi, OUN and UPA activist
- Antin Borsa, Ukrainian priest and educator
- Sydir (Isydor) Holubovych, Ukrainian lawyer, public and political figure
- Taras Demkura, Ukrainian entrepreneur, philanthropist, collector, publisher
- Roman Kolisnyk - Ukrainian writer, journalist, manager in Canada
- Yevstakhii Romaniuk, Ukrainian doctor, public figure
- Borys Yavorskyi, Ukrainian artist
- Franciszek Horodyski, Polish painter