Solotvyn

Solotvyn (Ukrainian: Солотвин, Polish: Sołotwina) is an urban-type settlement in Bohorodchany Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, 40 km from Ivano-Frankivsk. Population: 3,916(2016 est.)[1].

Solotvyn, parish church (Catholic, today Greek Catholic) before 1939

Solotvyn is situated on the Bystrytsia of Solotvyn (the left of the two long headstreams of the Bystrytsia River, which, in turn, is a tributary of the Dniester), at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. In the seventeenth century it was named Krasnopil.

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