The first written mention of the village was in 1581.[2]
Religion
St. Michael's church (1878–1881, brick, painted by Kornylo Ustyianovych; damaged during World War I, rebuilt in 1935).[2]
Famous people
Myron Korduba (1876–1947), Ukrainian historian, professor of the history of Ukraine at the Warsaw University Faculty of Humanities in 1929–1939; and author of biographies of famous Ukrainians in the Polish Biographical Dictionary (PSB)
^ ab(in Ukrainian)Уніят-Карпович, В., Острів // Ternopil region. History of cities and villages: in 3 v. / Ternopil: "Terno-graph", 2014, V. 3: М—Ш, S. 405—407. — ISBN978-966-457-246-7.
Sources
(in Ukrainian)Мельничук Б., Уніят В., Шикірява О., Острів // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2005, V. 2: К—О, S. 695—696. — ISBN966-528-199-2.