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Drohobych ( Ukrainian: Дрогобич, pronounced [droˈɦɔbɪtʃ] ⓘ; Polish: Drohobycz [drɔˈxɔ.bɨt͡ʂ] ⓘ; Yiddish: דראָהאָבּיטש, romanized : drohobitsh) is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Drohobych Raion and hosts the administration of Drohobych urban hromada, one of the ...
Drohobych, city, western Ukraine. Known from the 11th and 12th centuries for its salt, it was a small trade and administrative centre until the 19th century, when it expanded with the development of nearby deposits of ozokerite, petroleum, and natural gas.
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Drohobych in the Middle Ages
The settlement emerged around the 11th century in a place rich in salt springs from which salt was being extracted. The salt industry became the basis of the economy of the settlement. Until now, Drohobych has preserved several names of the streets associated with the process of salt production. When the water was evaporated, the salt remained in the form of so-called fireboxes. Nine such cone-shaped fireboxes became the symbol of Drohobych and were depicted on the coat of arms of the town of...
There are several versions of the origin of the name of Drohobych. According to the most common version, originally there was a settlement called Bych at the salt source in the foothills of the Carpathians. In the late 11th century, after the attack of the nomadic tribes of the Polovtsi, the settlement was burnt. After a while, the locals who manag...
Churches
Church of St.Yuriy. Built in the late 15th - early 16th centuries, this wooden church is one of the best monuments of Galician folk architecture included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site in the category “Wooden churches of the Carpathian region of Ukraine”, a monument of religious architecture of national importance. Restored several times the church has preserved its original appearance. Inside there is an exposition of the Drohobych Museum of Local History. The interior is decorate...
Other places of interest
Drohobych Tower- the oldest building in Drohobych constructed at the time of the Galicia-Volyn principality in the 13th century. In the 15th-16th centuries, a monumental Catholic Church of St. Bartholomew was built on the territory of the fortress and the tower was used as its bell tower. In front of the tower there is a monument to the medieval scholar Yuriy Drohobych. Yaroslava Osmomysla Street. Drohobych City Hall(1927) - a relatively new building of the Drohobych City Council with a high...
Drohobych Oblast (Ukrainian: Дрогобицька область, romanized: Drohobytska oblast) was an oblast of the Ukrainian SSR from December 4, 1939 to May 21, 1959. It had an area of 9,600 square kilometres (3,700 sq mi) and, as of 1956, had a population of 853,000.
Drohobych (Дрогобич; Drohobyč). Map: IV-4. City (2015 pop 76,795) in Subcarpathia on the Tysmenytsia River; the center of the Drohobych-Boryslav industrial region in Lviv oblast. The population of Drohobych was 32,300 in 1931, 42,000 in 1959, and 56,000 in 1970.
Apr 27, 2018 · DROHOBYCH, Ukraine — This town wasn’t always Ukrainian. But with 76,000 people, 56 kilometers from the Polish border and 516 kilometers from Kyiv, Drohobych boasts an incredibly vibrant and diverse history.
Drohobych is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Drohobych Raion and hosts the administration of Drohobych urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 1939–1941 and 1944–1959 it was the center of Drohobych Oblast.
