Drohobych district

Lviv region

Drohobych district is a district of Ukraine in the southwest of Lviv region. The district and administrative center is the city of regional significance Drohobych. There are two other cities of regional subordination within the district: Boryslav and the resort of Truskavets. The Drohobych district also includes such tourist locations and settlements as Skhidnytsia resort, Rybnyk, Volya Yakubova, Novyi Kropyvnyk, Staryi Kropyvnyk, Modrychi, Nahuyevychi, Derezhychi, Dovhe, Lishnya, Maidan, Dobrivlyany, Hlynne, Opaka, and Stebnyk. The district is bordered by the rivers Stryi, Tysmenytsia, Bystrytsia, Bar, Kolodnytsia, and Solonytsia. The northern part of the district is located within the Drohobych Upland, and the southern part is located in the Eastern Beskydy.

Drohobych district is located in the southwestern part of Lviv region, in the foothills and mountainous Carpathians. The district is bordered by Mykolaiv and Stryi districts in the east, Sambir and Horodok districts in the north, Turka and Skole districts in the south, and Starosambir district in the west. Eight village councils in Drohobych have the status of mountainous. The district center is the city of regional subordination Drohobych. In addition, two other cities of regional subordination (Boryslav and Truskavets) are located within the district. The largest villages in the Drohobych district are the urban-type settlements of Medenychi and Pidbuzh. The rivers Stryi, Tysmenytsia, Bystrytsia, Bar, and Kolodnytsia Solonytsia flow through the territory of Drohobych district.

The history of the Drohobych region goes back to ancient times. In particular, the first mention of the city of Drohobych dates back to 1387, but according to indirect evidence, it is much older and was one of the centers of salt production in Kyivan and later Galician-Volynian Rus. Many historical events took place directly in the cities of Drohobych and Boryslav, which are not administratively part of the Drohobych district.

The district has two historical and cultural monuments of national importance and 72 of local importance. The State Register includes 11 architectural monuments located in the district. These are mainly buildings of sacred architecture.

There are also 14 archaeological sites in Drohobych district.

Monuments and wooden churches

Numerous monuments of Drohobych, including the Church of St. George, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The highest waterfall in Lviv region on the Laznyi stream (12 m) near the village of Dovhe
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1773), Voroblevychi village
Church of St. Elijah (1698) with a bell tower; Monastyr-Lishnyanskyi village, N49.38434 E23.43503
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1644) with a bell tower, Medenychi village
Church of the Intercession of the Virgin (seventeenth century), Popeli village
The Church of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1700) with a bell tower (XVIII century), Selets village

Drohobych region is known not only in Ukraine but also abroad as the birthplace of the famous Ukrainian writer, poet, and public figure Ivan Franko. In Kamenyar's native village of Nahuyevychi, there is a museum-estate and a literary museum of Ivan Franko, and a literary trail with wooden sculptures of the characters of his works was created in Franko's grove.