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Ivano-Frankivsk (Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów,Template:Efn<ref name="britannica">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>The Sad End of the Orange Revolution, Der Spiegel (14 January 2010)</ref> is a city in western Ukraine.<ref name="SBEDIF">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It serves as the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast as well as Ivano-Frankivsk Raion within the oblast. Ivano-Frankivsk also hosts the administration of the Ivano-Frankivsk urban hromada.<ref name="admreform_2020_ivanofrankivsk">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Its population is Template:Ua-pop-est2022 227,827 (2024 estimate).<ref>СОЦІАЛЬНИЙ ПАСПОРТ Івано-Франківської міської територіальної громади Івано-Франківської області (станом на жовтень 2024 року)</ref>

Built in the mid-17th century as a fortress of the Polish Potocki family, Stanisławów was annexed to the Habsburg Empire during the First Partition of Poland in 1772, after which it became the property of the State within the Austrian Empire. Throughout this time, it was within the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. The fortress was slowly transformed into one of the most prominent cities at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. After World War I, for several months, it served as a temporary capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Following the Peace of Riga in 1921, Stanisławów became part of the Second Polish Republic. After the Soviet invasion of Poland at the onset of World War II, the city was annexed by the Soviet Union, only to be occupied by Nazi Germany two years later. With the liberation of Soviet Ukraine in 1944 and the shifting of borders, the city remained part of the Ukrainian SSR and was renamed in 1962 after Ivan Franko. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the city become part of newly-independent Ukraine.

Ivano-Frankivsk is one of the principal cities of the Carpathian Euroregion. There are elements of various cultures intertwined in the city's architecture, including the Polish city hall, the Austro-Hungarian city's business centre, the Soviet prefabricated apartment blocks at the city's rural–urban fringe, and others.

NameEdit

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Stanisław "Rewera" Potocki after whom the city was named originally.

The town was founded as a fortress known as Stanisławów where it was named after the Polish hetman Stanisław "Rewera" Potocki.<ref name="SBEDIF2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Sadok Barącz "Pamiątki miasta Stanisławowa", Lwów 1858, s. 11.</ref> Some sources claim it was named after his grandson Stanisław.<ref name="nazarpanchyshyn.wordpress.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the name was transliterated as Stanislau in German, as the city became part of the Austrian Empire, and later Austria-Hungary; however, after the Revolutions of 1848, the city carried three different linguistic renderings of its name: German, Polish, and Ruthenian (Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx Stanislaviv, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}, or {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Stanyslaviv, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}). Other spellings used in the local press media included Template:Langx Stanislavov and Template:Langx.

After World War II it was changed by the Soviet authorities into a simplified version Stanislav (Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}). In 1962, to honor the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko on the city's 300th anniversary, it was renamed Ivano-Frankivsk (Template:Langx) or Ivano-Frankovsk (Template:Langx). It is sometimes colloquially called Franyk ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}})<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Verify source by its residents. In several languages two names can be found in 21st century sources: one ending in /ivsk/ and one in /ovsk/. In English the city is "also known as" Ivano-Frankovsk.<ref name="britannica" /> Poland clarified in 2010 that Iwano-Frankiwsk should be used instead of Iwano-Frankowsk.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In Spanish, both forms<ref name=esWiki >Spanish Wikipedia: es:Ivano-Frankovsk</ref> are used alternatingly in La Jornada.

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Aerial view of Ivano-Frankivsk
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Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko

HistoryEdit

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Ivano-Frankivsk in 1915.
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Memorial plaque at the Regional Art Museum about the death of Stanislaw Potocki, son of Andrzej.

The town of Stanisławów was founded as a fortress in order to protect the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from Tatar invasions and to defend the multi-ethnic population of the region in case of armed conflicts such as the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648. The fort was originally built next to Zabolotiv village (known since 1435),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Knyahynyn (1449).<ref name="nazarpanchyshyn.wordpress.com" /> The village of Zabolotiv and the land around it were purchased by Andrzej Potocki from another Polish nobleman, Rzeczkowski. Stanisławów was issued by Potocki and his declaration establishing the city with Magdeburg rights on 7 May 1662; but the city and its rights, however, were not recognized by the Polish Crown until 14 August 1663, when John Casimir had finally approved it. By 1672, the fortress had been rebuilt from wood to stone, brick, and mortar. Also a new large fortified Potocki palace was erected in the place of an older wood structure. Today this building serves as the military hospital. In the same year Jews were granted the right to become permanent residents, who could work, conduct commerce and travel in and out of the city as they pleased.<ref>Jewish Genealogy – The Jewish Settlement from its Inception until 1772.</ref>

Originally the city was divided into two districts: Tysmenytsia and Halych. Sometime in 1817–1819 the neighbouring village of Zabolottya, that had a special status, was incorporated into the city as a new district, while Tysmenytsia district was divided into Tysmenytsia and Lysets districts. Each district had its main street corresponded with its name: Halych Street (Halych district), Tysmenytsia Street which today is Independence Street (Tysmenytsia district), Zabolotiv Street – Mykhailo Hrushevsky Street and Street of Vasylyanok (Zabolottya district), and Lysets Street – Hetman Mazepa Street (Lysets district). Later the city was split into six small districts: midtown where the rich Catholic population and patricians lived, pidzamche (subcastle), and four suburbs – Zabolotiv, Tysmenytsia, Halych and Lysets where the plebeians lived.<ref name="brief">Template:In lang Brief History of Ivano-Frankivsk Template:Webarchive</ref>

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Austrian K.K. stamp bilingual cancelled in 1891 with German and Polish names.

In October 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR) was proclaimed.<ref>Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group – History of Galicia</ref> In the early months of 1919 (from January to May) the city became a temporary capital of the West Ukrainian National Republic, while still recovering from World War I. All state affairs took place in the building of Dnister Hotel where the Act Zluky (Unification Act) was composed and signed on 22 January 1919 by the Ukrainian People's Republic.<ref name="Yanyspeech">Yanukovych condemns attempts to undermine unity, Kyiv Post (21 January 2011) Template:Webarchive</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> The same year it was subjected to the Polish–Ukrainian and the Romanian-Ukrainian skirmishes eventually being annexed by Poland as part of the Second Polish Republic as the centre of the Stanisławów Voivodeship. It was occupied by the Romanian army for the summer months from 25 May to 21 August 1919. During the Polish–Soviet War in 1920, the Red Army took over the city for a brief period. After the Soviet retreat, Ukrainian troops loyal to Symon Petlura occupied the city for a few days. At this period of history the city was in complete disorder.<ref>Jewish Genealogy – Between the Two World Wars</ref> It then became part of Poland until the start of World War II.

In the 1939 invasion of Poland by German and Soviet forces, the territory was captured by the Soviets in September 1939 and annexed to the Ukrainian SSR. Between September 1939 and June 1941, the Soviet regime ordered thousands of inhabitants of the city to leave their houses and move to Siberia, where most of them perished. Numerous people were taken out of the city prison and simply shot outside of the city when Soviet forces were leaving it in 1941. Ivano-Frankivsk was occupied by German forces from 2 July 1941 to 27 July 1944. There were more than 40,000 Jews in Stanisławów when it was occupied by the Nazis on 26 July 1941. The Stanisławów Ghetto was formed. During the occupation (1941–44), more than 600 educated Poles and most of the city's Jewish population were murdered.<ref name="yadvashem">yadvashem.org</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In early 1944, the city became part of the Soviet Union and was again renamed Stanislav. The Soviets forced most of the Polish population to leave the city, where most of them settled in the Recovered Territories. In 1962, the city was renamed Ivano-Frankivsk after the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.<ref name="britannica"/>

During the post-war period, the city was part of the Carpathian Military District housing the 38th Army (70th Motor Rifle Division) that participated in Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Until 18 July 2020, Ivano-Frankivsk was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the center of Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six. The area of Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality was merged into the newly established Ivano-Frankivsk Raion.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Since the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the city is often bombed by Russian forces. On 24 February and 11 March 2022, Ivano-Frankivsk was struck by Russian missiles during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

TimelineEdit

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The city's Art Museum on Sheptytskyi Square (former Parish Church of Virgin Mary).

GeographyEdit

The city is situated in the Carpathian region northeast of the mountain range, sitting approximately Template:Convert above mean sea level.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> One of the several main geographical features is the Vovchynets Hill also known as the Vovchynets Mountains. The hill reaches 300-Template:Convert above sea level and is part of the Pokuttya Highland (Upland). Around the hill Bystrytsia River branches into Bystrytsia of Nadvirna, Bystrytsia of Solotvyn, and Vorona. The last two rivers serve as a natural border between the Pokuttya Highland and Stanislav Basin. The Vovchynets Hill is located just outside and northeast of Ivano-Frankivsk. Located southeast from the Stanislav Basin in the direction of the Prut Valley is the Khorosnen (Prut-Bystrytsia) Highland. The highest point of that highland is Mount Hostra, Template:Convert.

The closest neighboring city is Tysmenytsia, less than Template:Convert to the east. Other cities that lie in the radius of Template:Convert are Tlumach (east), Nadvirna (south), Kalush (west), and Halych (north). The city also administers five adjacent villages that surround it: Mykytyntsi, Krykhivtsi, Vovchynets, Uhornyky, and Khryplyn.

ClimateEdit

As is the case with most of Ukraine, the climate is moderate continental with warm summers, and fairly cold winters. The following climate data provided is for the past 62 years. The average number of days with precipitation is 170 spread almost equally throughout a year. Most precipitation takes place during the winter months and least in early autumn. Thunderstorms occur mostly in summer months averaging around 25 annually.<ref name="weatherbase" /> Ivano-Frankivsk averages about 296 days of fog or misty days with about 24 per month.<ref name="weatherbase" />

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Aerial view of Ivano-Frankivsk

DemographicsEdit

Template:Historical populationsNote: Historical population record is taken out of Ivano-Frankivsk portal,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> more recent – the Regional Directorate of Statistics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> There is also other information on a population growth such as the JewishGen.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With asterisk there are identified years of approximate data. In the 18th century, differentiation among Poles and Ukrainians was by religious background rather than ethnic (Catholics vs. Orthodox).

1732 Population
  • Slavs – 1,518
  • Jews – 1,420
  • Armenians – 333
  • not known – 29
1792 Population
  • Slavs – 2,526
  • Jews – 2,412
  • Armenians – 510
1869 Population
  • Jews – 8,088
  • Poles – 4,221
  • Ukrainians – 2,236
  • others – 186
  • Armenians – 55
1880 Population
  • Jews – 10,023
  • Poles – 5,584
  • Ukrainians – 2,794
  • Germans – 135
  • Armenians – 90
1900 Population
  • Jews – 13,826
  • Poles – 8,334
  • Ukrainians – 4,606
  • Germans – 149
  • Armenians – 58
  • Czech – 39
1910 Population
  • Jews – 15,161
  • Poles – 9,065
  • Ukrainians – 5,624
1921 Population
  • Poles – 21,581
  • Jews – 20,208
  • Ukrainians – 8,441
  • Germans – 1,076
  • others – 74
  • Czech – 11
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Ethnicity 1959 1970 1979 1989 2001<ref name="miskrada">Ethnic composition of the population of the Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality</ref>
Ukrainians 43 858 76 474 114 500 169 795 212 577
Poles 1 958 1 459 1 256 1 060 653
Jews 2 136 2 237 1 778 1 406 256
Russians 16 892 22 313 26 694 35 015 13 876
Belarusians 628 1 236 1 056 1 683 633
Others 984 1 252 1 309 2 273 1 263

LanguageEdit

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Language Number Percentage
Ukrainian 198 468 92.19%
Russian 14 614 6.79%
Other or undecided 2 206 1.02%
Total 215 288 100.00%

According to a survey conducted by the International Republican Institute in April–May 2023, 97% of the city's population spoke Ukrainian at home, and 3% spoke Russian.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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View of Sichovykh Striltsiv Street from Viche Maidan
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Viche Maidan, the corner of Vitovsky Street and Independence Street

AdministrationEdit

Both city and oblast administrations as well as the regional council are all located in a massive white building on Hrushevsky Street locally known as Bily Dim or Bily Budynok. In front of the building, there is a big open space bordered by Shpytalna Street on the north-east, Hrushevsky Street on the south-east, and Melnychuk Street on the south-west. Next to the building, there is a memorial to the Unification of the Western Ukraine with the rest of Ukraine. The main feature of the memorial is a tall marble stele, both sides of which are adorned with statues: kamenyar (west) and kobzar (east).

City CouncilEdit

The city council currently consists of 42 deputies.<ref name="chesno.org/post/4326"/> The political representation after the 2020 Ukrainian local elections by political blocs was elected as such: 28 seats for Svoboda, 10 seats for European Solidarity and 4 seats for Batkivschyna.<ref name="chesno.org/post/4326">How the composition of the Ivano-Frankivsk council has changed, Civil movement "Chesno" (6 November 2020) Template:In lang</ref>

Recent city mayorsEdit

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In the (first round of the) 2020 Ukrainian local elections Martsinkiv was reelected with about 85% of the vote.<ref name="hromadske.mer-ivano-frankivska">Mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk Martsinkiv on the success of the OPZZ in the east: this was expected and this is a problem of pro-Ukrainian forces, Hromadske.TV (26 October 2020) Template:In lang
Mayors of Mykolayiv, Ivano-Frankivsk become known after elections, Ukrinform (16 November 2015)</ref>

StreetsEdit

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A part of Nezalezhnosti Street (Independence Street) - so-called 'Stometrivka'

All street names<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> reflecting the city's Soviet or Russian past have been returned to their former names, or given new names of national historic importance, or other non-controversial names. For example, Gagarin Street (connecting the city with its suburbs) became Vovchynets Street, Suvorov Street is now Harbar Street, and Soviet Street is Independence Street.

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Shopping street in central Ivano-Frankivsk

Around 100 other streets were renamed.

Important transportation arteries
  • Independence Street (vulytsia Nezalezhnosti) / Tysmenytsia Road (doroha Tysmenetska)
  • Halych Road (vulytsia Halytska)
  • Hetman Mazepa Street (vulytsia Hetmana Mazepy) / Krykhivtsi Road (doroha Krykhivetska)
  • Yevhen Konovalets Road (vulytsia Yevhena Konovaltsia)
  • Vovchynets Street (vulytsia Vovchynetska)
  • Vasyl Stefanyk Shore Drive (naberezhna Vasylia Stefanyka)
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One of many street cafes in the city centre

City squaresEdit

The city has seven main city squares, four of them located in the "old town" part of the city.

  • Viche Maidan
  • Market Square
  • Sheptytskyi Square
  • Pryvokzalna Square
  • Mickiewicz Square (Mickiewicz Park)
  • Liberation Square
  • European Square

Rural-urban fringe districtsEdit

Like a lot of regional centers in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union, Ivano-Frankivsk is well known for its rural-urban fringe panel building residential districts, too.

  • BAM
  • Kaskad
  • Positron
  • Budivelnykiv

TransportEdit

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Ivano-Frankivsk Railway Station
Public transportation

The city of Ivano-Frankivsk has an extensive network of public transport including buses, trolleybuses, and taxis. There are nine trolleybus routes and about 52 for regular buses. Some of the routes run beyond the city into nearby villages.

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Road map of Ivano-Frankivsk
Railway transportation

The city is served by the Ivano-Frankivsk railway station. There are also smaller railway stations in adjacent villages, including Uhryniv and Khryplyn. All of them are part of Lviv Railways.

Bus transportation

Until 2008, the railway terminal also housed a bus terminal which provided several inter-city bus routes, including some to international destinations. In 2000, construction began on a new bus terminal next to the railway terminus on Zaliznychna Street. Inauguration of the new bus terminal took place on 22 May 2010. At the opening ceremony the Mayor of the city, Viktor Anushkevičius, noted that the new bus terminal was only partially completed, and for a period it would be necessary to offload passengers at the Pryvokzalna Square, which is already saturated with traffic. He also emphasised the need for another bus station on the outskirts of the city.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport
Airways transportation

The city is served by Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport, which was granted international status in 1992. The airport shares its facilities with the 114 Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force. Since 2002, the airport has been leased to the private enterprise company Yavson, and from 2005 the Public limited company Naftokhimik Prykarpattia, a (subsidiary of Ukrnafta). The contract with Naftokhimik Prykarpattia expired in 2013.

Lodging

There are many lodging options in Ivano-Frankivsk. Ivano-Frankivsk has one four-star hotel ("Park Hotel"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) and three three-star hotels ("Nadia",<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> "Auscoprut",<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> "Pid Templem"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>).

RoutesEdit

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EducationEdit

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Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University

The city has over 25 public schools of general education for grades 1 through 11, including the Ukrainian gymnasium No. 1. There are also some privately owned schools and lyceums. In addition, the city has several professional public institutes.

There are also numerous sports schools: Fitness Sport Association "Ukraine" – 5 schools, MVK – 3 schools, Fitness Sport Association "Spartak" – 2 schools, Fitness Sport Association "Kolos" – 1 school, and the others.

UniversitiesEdit

The city has six universities, the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Management that is a local campus of Ternopil National Economic University, and the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Management and Economics "Halytska Akademia". All of which are state funded.

  1. Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
  2. Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas (University of Oil and Gas)
  3. Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University
  4. King Daniel of Galicia Ivano-Frankivsk University of Law
  5. Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Academy of Greek-Catholic Church
  6. West Ukrainian University of Economics and Law

Culture and sportsEdit

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ArchitectureEdit

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    Remains of the Stanislaviv fortress on Fortechnyi Ln

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    Rynok Square with the town hall

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    Collegiate Church of Virgin Mary

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    Resurrection Cathedral

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    Armenian Church

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    Former Potocki Palace

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    Former Austrian Railway Directorate, today the Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University

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    Ivano-Frankivsk railway station

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    Hartenberg Passage

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    Former Austria hotel at 12 Sichovyh Striltsiv Street

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    Church of St. Joseph

Other attractionsEdit

  • Market Square with the city's old town hall, today hosting an ethno-cultural museum.
  • Shevchenko Park, a big park that consists of an amusement park, a big lake with swans, couple of full-size football fields, and many other interesting places which are worth a visit.
  • Bily Budynok, a big white building in the middle of the city and next to the Market place. It is the main administration building of Ivano-Frankivsk and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. In front of the building, there are two full-size sculptural monuments to Franko and Shevchenko.
  • Bazaar, a huge area that covers the old market and the new market with a couple of supermarket stores locally known as the universal stores.
  • Template:Convert stretch (stometrivka), unofficial local name for a part of Independence Street that consists of numerous shops and is restricted to pedestrian traffic only.

MonumentsEdit

  • Battle of Grunwald monument – commemorating the victory of the Poland on Grunwald fields in 1410.
  • Monument to Adam Mickiewicz (1930) – it was reconstructed in 1989, located in Adam Mickiewicz Square next to a regional concert (philharmonic) hall. It is the oldest surviving monument in the city and was built on 20 November 1898 (sculptor Tadeusz Błotnicki).
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Shevchenko Park
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Potocki gates

Theaters and CinemasEdit

  • Ivan Franko Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater
  • Mariika Pidhirianka Academic Regional Puppet Theater
  • Ivan Tobilevich Ukrainian National Theater
  • Regional Philharmonic Society
  • Lumiere Movie Theater (previously, Ivan Franko Movie Theater)
  • Cosmos Movie Theater
Former
  • Patriot Movie Theater
  • Shevchenko Movie Theater (previously "Pioneer")
  • "Videotech"
  • Gorky Movie Theater
  • Komsomolets Movie Theater
  • Shevchenko Movie Theater (original)
  • Trembita, a summer movie theater

City parksEdit

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Monument in front of the State Administration Building

FestivalsEdit

  • «Sviato Kovaliv» (Blacksmiths festival)
  • «Karpatskyi Prostir» (Carpathian Space)
  • «Koliada na Maizliakh» Christmas Festival
  • «Prykarpattia Honey Fest»
  • «Holiday of Grapes and Wine»
  • «Stanislavska Marmuliada»

SportsEdit

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House of Sokol Sport Association, 1895

Ivano-Frankivsk is home to a number of sports teams. Most notably, it was home to the football club FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk (Prykarpattya) that participated on the national level since the 1950s. Since 2007, the club only fields its youth team Spartak-93 and competes in the Children-Youth Football League of Ukraine. The former president of Spartak Anatoliy Revutskiy reorganized the local university (University of Oil and Gas) team in 2007 into the new "FSK Prykarpattia" with support of the city mayor Anushkevychus making it the main football club in the region and replacing Spartak. Previously during the interbellum period, the city was home to another football club based on the local Polish garrison and called Rewera Stanisławów (1908). That club competed at a regional level that had evolved at that period. With the start of World War II, that club was disbanded. During the Soviet period among several others there was another club "Elektron" that successfully participated at a regional level around the 1970s.

The city also is the home to a futsal team, PFC Uragan Ivano-Frankivsk, that competes in the Ukrainian Futsal Championship. They were the Ukrainian champions having won the 2010/11 season playoffs and therefore took part in the 2011–12 UEFA Futsal Cup for the first time.

The city had an ice hockey team, HC Vatra Ivano-Frankivsk, which previously played in the Ukrainian Hockey Championship.

Ivano-Frankivsk is also the hometown of Ukrainian gymnasts; one of them is Dariya Zgoba who won gold on the uneven bars in the 2007 European Championships and became a finalist on the Beijing Olympics; the other one is Yana Demyanchuk, who won gold on the balance beam at the 2009 European Championships.

Other clubs include:

Main Stadiums and Sport Complexes
  • MCS Rukh, a sport complex consisting of the major arena and two auxiliary fields next to it
  • Yunist Stadium (Youth)
  • Hirka Stadium, property of the Ivano-Frankivsk Locomotive Maintenance Plant
  • Nauka Stadium (Science), which belongs to Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
  • Stadium of Oil and Gas University
  • Sport-Recreational Center "Tsunami", which contains an ice arena for the local hockey events and a waterpark<ref>Template:In lang Tsunami main website Template:Webarchive</ref>

City's radio, television, press mediaEdit

Press
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Radio
  • "Zakhidnyi Polius (104.3 FM)" – city's radio<ref>1043.com.ua</ref>
  • "Vezha (107 FM)" – city's radio<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Television
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Notable peopleEdit

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Svetlana Alexievich, 2013
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Daniel Auster, 1949
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Arthur F. Burns, 1955
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Bernard Mond, ca.1935
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Portrait of Józef Potocki
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Klemens Stefan Sielecki, 1946

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SportEdit

Twin towns – sister citiesEdit

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Partner citiesEdit

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OrientationEdit

Local orientation

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Regional orientation

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See alsoEdit

NotesEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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SourcesEdit

  • "Endure, Defy and Remember", by Joachim Nachbar, 1977
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  • "False papers: deception and survival in the Holocaust", by Robert Melson, Univ. of Illinois Press, 2000. Dr. Melson is a professor of political science at Purdue, whose grandfather owned the Mendelsohn factory in Stanislawow.
  • "I'm not even a grown up, the diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman", translated by Anthony Rudolf and Joanna Voit, ed. by Anthony Rudolf. London: Menard Press, 1991. 11-yr old in Stanislaw commits suicide to avoid capture by Nazis.
  • "Living Longer than Hate", by C.S. Ragsdale
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External linksEdit

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General information and travel
Maps
History
  • The Stanislau Phenomenon – How the Western Ukrainian provincial nest of Ivano-Frankivsk turned into a thriving literary metropolis and multicultural frontier between East and West. By Holger Gemba at signandsight.com
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