Older maps of the area around Dubiecko, Poland (such as the 1855 map below) clearly show the location of the village of Ruska Wieś across the San River from Dubiecko. However, current maps, (such as those on https://www.google.com/maps and https://mapa.szukacz.pl/) show no village called Ruska Wieś where it had appeared on 19th-century maps.
Ritter, Karl. 1855. “Administrativ-Karte von Den Königreichen Galizien und Lodomerien.” Wien: Verlag und Eigenthum von Artaria & Co.; digital images, Polona (https://polona.pl/item-view/9341ec1b-5a4b-44a5-9f6b-a22c716faf46?page=36: accessed 30 November 2025)
Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Polish Place Names) has two brief entries about the village of Ruska Wieś in Dubiecko parish:
Source: Rymut, Kazimierz, ed., Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Polish Place Names) – Krakow 1997, Volume 11, page 450.
Source: Rymut, Kazimierz, Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, and Urszula Bijak, eds., Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Polish Place Names) – Krakow 2015, Volume X11, page 68.
Both of these brief entries indicate that a village called either Ruska Wieś or Dubiecko Ruskie is now known as Wybrzeże. Unfortunately, the volume of Nazwy Miejscowe Polski (Polish Place Names) that would provide details about the multiple names of the village of Wybrzeże has not yet been published.
The Polish Wikipedia entry on Wybrzeże states that the village was originally called Dubiecko, from the 15th century until 31 Jul 1947 it was called Ruska Wieś, and from 03 Sep 1949 it was called Brzeżyna.
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