Ulucz

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Ulucz is a village in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in southern Poland. More specific, it lies in Brzozow County (Polish: Powiat Brzozowskie).

The Boyko population of the area used to call the village Ulicz, before being expelled during Operation Wisla. Before that, the main population of the village was Ukrainian. The village suffered considerable damage in the Second World War, and today it only consist of a few dozen houses.

[edit] Church of Ascension of our Lord

Ulucz is the location of the oldest wooden cerkiew in Poland. It was built by Boyko. It has survived because of it's strategic location, overlooking the San River. Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Fathers founded a school of wooden architecture in Ulucz, which taught woodcarvers how to make iconostasises and other religious artefacts. The church nowadays is a museum.