History
Known since the XVII century. For the first time it appears in documents for 1610 under the name Shmankivtsi Old or Small or Undergrowth, in 1678 it is Shmankivchi. [2]
In 1785, 494 people lived in the village. The palace of Stanislaw Wygowski is still preserved. It is known that in the eastern part of Shmankivchyky there were estates of oo. Dominicans from Chortkiv, who together with the forest owned 600 mortuaries of land. The peasants owned 400 morgues.
In 1880 there were 69 houses in Shmankivchyky (60 - in the village, 9 - on the territory of the estate [3] ), in which 464 people lived. In 1900 - 741 inhabitants, 1910 - 754, 1921 - 710, 1931 - 760; in 1921. - 133, 1931 - 169 yards.
Shmankivchyky on the map of von Mig, XVIII century.
Shmankivchyky on the Austrian topographic map, 1861-1864.
Shmankivchyky on the Austrian topographic map, 1869-1887.
In Austria-Hungary there was a 1-grade school, in Poland - a 2-grade school (both with Polish language of instruction), which were located in the house. In 1872 the villagers built a chapel, in 1912 - a school, in 1927 - a reading room. There was a distillery, a mill, a brickyard, and an inn.
During the 1920's and 1930's, there were branches of the Prosvita societies, [4] [5] Luh, Silskyi Hospodar, Ridna Shkola, and other cooperatives.
There were the Polish societies Kółko rolnicze, Związek Strzelecki and Dom ludowy.
For some time Shmankivchyky was the center of the commune of the same name. From August 1, 1934 [6] to 1939, the village belonged to the Kolyndiany Gmaina.
On the eve of the Second World War (1938) a church was built from a spy to a filwark. Polish authorities arrested Vasyl A. and Vasyl T. Zakharchuk and imprisoned them in the Bereza Kartuzka concentration camp.
After the establishment of Soviet power in September 1939, Maksym Koziar was elected chairman of the village council. In the same year, the credit union was nationalized, and the Prosvita reading room was renamed the club. In 1941, the Zakharchuk and Fedir Kaluzhniak families were deported to Siberia. After the retreat of the Red Army in the same year, a grave was laid in the village and a cross was erected.
In 1939-1941, NKVD bodies tortured and shot Shmankivchyky residents Anton Barashovych, Myroslav Bodnaruk, and Ivan Horyachyi in the Chortkiv prison; On July 20–21, 1941, Ivan Hlukh, Petro Herman, Oleksa Horyachyi, Fedir Davydiuk, and Anton Slota were shot dead in Uman in the Cherkasy Oblast. Vasyl Bryhadyr, Vasyl Vilkhovyi, Myroslav Horyachyi, Anton and Olha Zakharchuk`s, Ivan and Rozalia Mostovych`s, Antin and Mykhailo Yurkiv and others fought in the UPA.
During the German-Soviet war, the Red Army died or went missing:
- Yulian Boiko (born 1912),
- Maksym Boianovskyi (born 1905),
- Maksym Verbovetskyi (born 1906),
- Vasyl Hyra (born 1918),
- Stepan Hlukh (born 1920),
- Anton (born 1897), Mykola (born 1903) and Yaroslav Zakharchuk`s (born 1921),
- Vasyl Klym, Vasyl Kuts (born 1904),
- Mykhailo Mishchii, Mykhailo Pyrozhyk (born 1906),
- Omelian Reshetii (born 1904),
- Vasyl (born 1912) and Mikhailo (born 1918) Stets,
- Mykola Ushii (born 1910),
- Vasyl Chudyk (born 1904).
Since November 27, 2020, Shmankivchyky belongs to the Factory Village Community. [7] On November 12, 2021, the Shmankivchyky Starostynskyi District was formed. [8]
On July 30, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 infection was registered in Shmankivchyky. [9]
Social sphere
The T 2001 Buchach-Chortkiv-Skala-Podilska highway passed through the village.
Until 2021, there was a library, which was reorganized into a studio of the Center for Cultural Services of the Factory Village Council. [12]
There is a secondary school, kindergarten, library, medical and obstetric center, post office, OJSC "Chortkiv Breeding Enterprise" (former state breeding station), farm "Velychko", OJSC "Ternopil Regional Fish and Reclamation Station", Chortkiv Production trade enterprise "Rii", PE "Olha-LTD", three trade establishments.
Ukraine 
Ternopil Oblast 
