Vyshnivets (Ukrainian:Вишнівець;Polish:Wiśniowiec) is arural settlement inKremenets Raion,Ternopil Oblast, westernUkraine. It hosts the administration ofVyshnivets settlement hromada, one of thehromadas of Ukraine.^[1] Population:3,179 (2022 estimate).^[2]

Vyshnivets Вишнівець
Rural settlement
Vyshnivets Palace
Coat of arms
Vyshnivets Location of Vyshnivets Show map of Ternopil Oblast Vyshnivets Vyshnivets (Ukraine) Show map of Ukraine
Coordinates:49°54′00″N25°44′00″E / 49.90000°N 25.73333°E /49.90000; 25.73333
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ternopil Oblast
Raion	Kremenets Raion
Hromada	Vyshnivets settlement hromada
First mentioned	1395
Town status	1960
Area
• Total	6 km2 (2 sq mi)
Population  (2022)
• Total	3,179
• Density	530/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	47313
Area code	+380
Website	gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/pls/z7502/A005?rdat1=10.03.2007&rf7571=30897

Vyshnivets is better known as a family estate of the Polish royalhouse of Wiśniowiecki (originally Ruthenian princes), which is known for switching from Eastern Orthodoxy to Catholicism (as part of Polonization) as well as the Cossack HetmanDmytro "Baida" Vyshnevetsky, who established the first Zaporizhian Sich on the island of Small (Mala) Khortytsia on the Dnipro River in 1552 in defense of the lands.

The area was first mentioned in 1395 soon after annexation of theKingdom of Galicia-Volhynia by theKingdom of Poland when the first defensive castle was constructed in the area byLithuanian dukeKaributas who had acquired the land from the Grand DukeVytautas the Great.^[3]

The town is located on theHoryn River, a right tributary of thePrypiat. BeforeWorld War II the village was located inPoland.

The town served as a family seat of thePolishprincelyWiśniowiecki family, as of the 15th century, and its name was adopted by the family. The town was noted for its extensive cherry orchards.^[4] In the mid-1500s, one of the family's descendants,Dmytro Vyshnevetsky (1516-1563) established theZaporozhian Cossack stronghold on theSmall Khortytsia Island. His grandsonJeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612-1651) was also a distinguished military commander. During the time of the leadership of PrincesMichael and Valusah Wiśniowiecki, as of 1674, the town was on the verge of becoming a Russian capital.^[4][5]

It was administratively located in theVolhynian Voivodeship in theLesser Poland Province. The 5th Polish Vanguard Regiment was stationed in Wiśniowiec and its environs in 1792.^[6]

Architectural landmarks in the town include a 15th-centuryVyshnivets Palace; and palace and park, constructed in the 18th century by theVyshnevetskyi family.

The town was part of theWołyń Voivodeship of theSecond Polish Republic during the interwar period. Prior to the commencement ofWorld War II, approximately 5,000 Jewish people were residents of the town.^[4]

Following the joint German-Sovietinvasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town wasoccupied by the Soviet Union until 1941. The town was directly in the path of the German invasion of Russia in June 1941, following the repudiation by Germany of theRibbentrop-Molotov Pact.^[4]

On August 11–12, 1942, German troops andUkrainian Auxiliary Police executed nearly 2,700 Jewish men, women and children. Of those executed, approximately 900 were children.^[7][8] It is estimated that less than 100 of the town's Jewish residents ultimately survived the Holocaust.^[4]

In February 1944, theUkrainian Insurgent Army attacked the monastery of Barefoot Carmelites in Vyshnivets, about 300 people, monks and people who wanted to hide in the monastery were murdered. The identity of 45 murdered people was established, the other victims remain nameless.^[9]

In 1960, Vyshnivets was changed from the status of avillage, to that of anurban-type settlement. The population of the town was 3,469 as of 1994.

Until 18 July 2020, Vyshnivets belonged toZbarazh Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Zbarazh Raion was split between Kremenets andTernopil Raions, with Vyshnivets being transferred to Kremenets Raion.^[10][11] On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished the urban-type settlement status, and Zaliztsi became a rural settlement.^[12]

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  TheWiśniowiecki family palace.
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  Vyshnivets Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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  The Voskresenska Church of the town.

• Nataliia Sobkovych (born 1968), Ukrainian artist and art critic

• Wiśniowiec massacres

• ShtetLinks - Vishnevets at JewishGen
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• "Vyshnivets: Truth and myths of the kniaz Vyshnevetsky family".Den (Day) (in Ukrainian). September 30, 2005. RetrievedMarch 30, 2007.
• "Vyshnivets".Ternopilska Torhovo-Promyslova Palata (in Ukrainian). Archived fromthe original on March 10, 2007. RetrievedMarch 30, 2007.
• Klymenko, Serhiy."Photo excursion around Vyshnovets".klymenko.data-tec.net (in Ukrainian). Archived fromthe original on August 20, 2006. RetrievedMarch 30, 2007.
• Vlasenko, Petro."Vyshnivets, Ternopilska Oblast".ua.vlasenko.net (in Russian). RetrievedMarch 30, 2007.