Editing Drohobych

{{Short description|City in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine}}
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'''Drohobych''' ({{langx|uk|Дрогобич}}, {{IPA|uk|droˈɦɔbɪtʃ|pron|audio=Uk-Дрогобич.ogg}}; {{langx|pl|Drohobycz}} {{IPA|pl|drɔˈxɔ.bɨt͡ʂ||audio=Pl-Drohobycz.ogg}}; {{langx|yi|{{Script/Hebrew|דראָהאָביטש}}|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 [[hromada]]s of Ukraine.<ref name="admreform_2020_drohobych">{{cite web |title=Дрогобычская городская громада |url=https://gromada.info/ru/obschina/drogobych/ |publisher=Портал об'єднаних громад України |language=ru}}</ref> In 1939–1941 and 1944–1959 it was the center of [[Drohobych Oblast]].

Drohobych was founded at the end of the eleventh century as an important trading post and transport node between [[Kievan Rus']] and the lands to the West of Rus'. After extinction of the local Ruthenian dynasty and subsequent incorporation of the [[Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia]] into the [[Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385)|Polish Kingdom]] by 1349, from the fifteenth century the city developed as a mercantile and saltworks centre. Drohobych became part of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 after the first [[Partitions of Poland|partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]]. In the mid-nineteenth century it became Europe's largest oil extraction center, which significantly contributed to its rapid development. In the renascent, [[Second Polish Republic|interwar Poland]] it was the center of a county within the [[Lwów Voivodeship]]. As an outcome of World War II, the city was incorporated into the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian part of the Soviet Union]], which in 1991 became the independent [[Ukraine]].

The city was the birthplace of such well-known personalities as [[Elisabeth Bergner]], [[Yuriy Drohobych]] (Kotermak), [[Ivan Franko]] and [[Bruno Schulz]]. The city has several oil refineries. The [[Drohobych salt plant|Drohobych saltworks]] are considered to be the oldest in Europe. The estimated population of Drohobych is {{Ua-pop-est2022|73,682|}}, making it the second largest city in Lviv Oblast.

==History==
[[File:Вид за межами комплексу.jpg|thumb|upright|[[St. George's Church, Drohobych|St. George's Orthodox Church]]]]
While there are only legendary accounts of it, Drohobych probably existed in the [[Kievan Rus']] period. According to a legend, there was a settlement, called ''Bych'', of [[salt]]-traders. When Bych was destroyed in a [[Cumans|Cumanian]] raid, survivors rebuilt the settlement in a nearby location under its current name which means a ''Second Bych''. In the time of Kievan Rus', the [[Boryslav#History|Tustan]] fortress was built near Drohobych. However, scholars perceive this legend with skepticism, pointing out that Drohobych is a Polish pronunciation of [[Dorogobuzh]], a common [[East Slavic languages|East Slavic]] toponym applied to three different towns in Kievan Rus'.<ref name=histDroNet>{{cite web|url=http://drohobych.net/about_Drohobych.htm|script-title=uk:Історія Дрогобича|trans-title=History of Drohobych|language=uk|publisher=drohobych.net|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060116003938/http://www.drohobych.net/about_Drohobych.htm|archive-date=16 January 2006}}</ref>

The city was first mentioned in 1387 in the municipal records of Lviv, in connection with a man named Martin (or Marcin) of ''Drohobych''.<ref name=histDroNet/> Furthermore, the same chronicler's ''List of all Ruthenian cities, the farther and the near ones''<ref name=VoskrChron>[http://litopys.org.ua/rizne/spysok/spys09.htm А СЕ ИМЕНА ГРАДОМЪ ВСЂМЪ РУССКЫМЪ, ДАЛНИМЪ И БЛИЖНИМЪ] in [[PSRL]], Т. VII. Летопись по Воскресенскому списку. — СПб, 1856. — с. 240–41.</ref> in [[Voskresensky Chronicle]]<!---"воскресенская летопись"---> (dated 1377–82) mentions {{Lang|orv|Другабець}} ''(Druhabets')'' among other cities in Volhynia that existed at the same time such as {{Lang|orv|Холмъ}} (''[[Chełm|Kholm]]''), {{Lang|orv|Лвовъ Великій}} (''[[Lviv|Lviv the Great]]'').

In 1392 Polish king [[Władysław II Jagiełło|Vladislav II]] ordered the construction of the first [[Roman Catholic]] municipal [[parish church]] ({{Langx|pl|Kosciół farny|links=no}}), using the foundations of older Ruthenian buildings. In the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], the city was the center of large rural [[starostvo]] (county within the [[Ruthenian Voivodeship]]).

Drohobych received [[Magdeburg rights]] some time in the 15th century (sources differ as to the exact year, some giving 1422 or 1460,<ref name=histDroNet/> or 1496<ref name=EncUkr>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Kubijovyč|first=Volodymyr|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CD%5CR%5CDrohobych.htm|title=Drohobych|encyclopedia=Online Encyclopedia of Ukraine|date=2016|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref> but in 1506 the rights were confirmed by King [[Alexander the Jagiellonian]]). The salt industry was significant in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
[[File:Дрогобыч. Памятник Юрию Дрогобычу..jpg|thumb|upright|[[Yuriy Drohobych]] Monument]]
From the early seventeenth century, a [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church|Ukrainian Catholic]] brotherhood existed in the city. In 1648, during the [[Khmelnytsky Uprising]], the Cossacks stormed the city and its cathedral. Most of the local Poles, as well as the Greek Catholics and the Jews, were murdered at the time, while some managed to survive in the [[Bell tower]] not taken in the raid. The 1772 [[Partitions of Poland|partition of Poland]] gave the city to the [[Habsburg monarchy]]. In the 19th century, significant oil resources were discovered in the area, making the city an important center of the oil and natural gas industries.

After [[World War I]], the area became part of the short-lived independent [[West Ukrainian People's Republic]] (ZUNR). The ZUNR was taken over by the [[Second Polish Republic]] after the [[Polish–Ukrainian War]] and Drohobych became part of the [[Lwów Voivodeship]] in 1919. In 1928 the still extant Ukrainian private gymnasium (academically oriented secondary school) opened in the center of the city. The population reached some 40,000 in the late 1920s, and its oil refinery at [[Polmin]] became one of the biggest in [[Europe]], employing 800 people. Numerous visitors came there to view the wooden Greek Catholic churches, among them the Church of St. Yur, which was regarded as the most beautiful such construction in the Second Polish Republic, with [[fresco]]es from 1691. Drohobych was also a major sports center (see: [[Junak Drohobycz]]).

In September 1939, after the [[Invasion of Poland|German and Soviet invasion of Poland]] and according to the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact|Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement]], the city was annexed to [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet Ukraine]]. After the invasion Nazi Germany wanted to incorporate the city into its [[General Government]] due to its oil fields, but the USSR refused and [[Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union|annexed it]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Weinberg |first=Gerhard L. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/world-at-arms/122A2C377C4528D26382982044F8E9DC |title=A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II |date=2005-03-28 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-61826-7 |edition=2 |location=Cambridge |pages=60–61 |language=en}}</ref> In Soviet Ukraine, Drohobych became the center of the [[Drohobych Oblast]] ([[Oblast|region]]). Its local Polish [[Polish Scouting and Guiding Association|boy scouts]] created the [[White Couriers]] organization, which in late 1939 and early 1940 smuggled hundreds of people from the Soviet Union to [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]] across the Soviet-Hungarian border in the [[Carpathian Mountains]]. In early July 1941, during the first weeks of the [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazi invasion of the USSR]], the city was [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine|occupied by Nazi Germany]].

Pre-war Drohobych had a significant Jewish community of about 15,000 people, 40% of the total population. Immediately after the Germans entered the city, [[Ukrainian nationalism|Ukrainian nationalists]] started a pogrom which lasted for three days, supported by the [[Wehrmacht]]. During 1942 there were several selections, deportations, and murders in the streets, again led by German troops and [[Ukrainian Auxiliary Police]]. In October 1942, [[Drohobych ghetto]] was established with approximately 10,000 prisoners, including Jews brought from neighboring localities. In June 1943, the German administration and troops liquidated the ghetto. Only 800 Jews from Drohobych survived.<ref name="Israel Gutman u. 1995">Israel Gutman u.&nbsp;a. (Hrsg.): ''Enzyklopädie des Holocaust''. München und Zürich 1995, {{ISBN|3-492-22700-7}}, vol.&nbsp;1, p.&nbsp;371.</ref><ref name=HolUSSR>{{cite web|url=http://holocaust.ioso.ru/history/19_20.htm|script-title=ru:Преступления нацистов на территории СССР|trans-title=Nazis crimes in the territory of the USSR|language=ru|publisher=holocaust.ioso.ru|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902053858/http://holocaust.ioso.ru/history/19_20.htm|archive-date=2 September 2006}}</ref> On 6 August 1944, the German occupation ended and the [[Red Army]] entered the city. Despite the large Jewish population prior to the war, a current resident has stated that he was one of only two Jews who came back to his village to live after 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yahadmap.org/#village/drogobych-lviv-ukraine.62|title=Execution Sites of Jewish Victims Investigated by Yahad-In Unum: Execution of Jews in Drogobych|publisher=yahadmap.org|date=2005|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref> After the war, the city remained an [[oblast]] center until the Drohobych Oblast was incorporated into the [[Lviv Oblast]] in 1959. In Soviet times, Drohobych became an important industrial center of [[Western Ukraine]], with highly developed oil-refining, machine building, woodworking, food, and light industries.

Until 18 July 2020, Drohobych was designated as a [[City of regional significance (Ukraine)|city of oblast significance]] and belonged to [[Drohobych Municipality]] but not to [[Drohobych Raion]], even though it was the center of the raion. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven, Drohobych Municipality was merged into Drohobych Raion.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.|url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466|access-date=2020-10-03|date=2020-07-18|website=Голос України|language=uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=uk}}</ref>

==Demographics==
The population of Drohobych over the years was:
*1931 – 32,300
*1959 – 42,000
*1978 – 65,998
*1989 – 77,571
*2001 – 79,119
*2010 – 78,368
*2022 – 73,682

{| class="wikitable" style="padding:6px; spacing:6px"
|-
|+ Religious and national splits<ref name="HannMagocsi2005">{{cite book|last=Motylewicz|first=Jerzy|editor1=C. M. Hann|editor2=Paul R. Magocsi|editor-link2=Paul Robert Magocsi|title=Galicia: A Multicultured Land|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RG9dXs3-zQEC&pg=PA37|access-date=19 December 2016|year=2005|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-3781-7|page=37|chapter=Ethnic Communities in the Towns of the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries}}</ref><ref name="EncUkr"/>
|-
! Mid-18th century<br />By religion !! 1869<br />By religion !! 1939<br />By religion !! 1959<br />By nationality
|-
| total 3,737 || total 16,880 || total 34,600 || total 42,000
|-
| 2,200 (58.8%) Jewish || 47.7% Jewish || 39.9% Jewish || 2% Jews
|-
| 1,274 (34%) Roman Catholic || 23.2% Roman Catholic || 33.2% Roman Catholic || 3% Poles
|-
| 263 (7%) Greek Catholic ||rowspan="2"| 28.7% Greek Catholic<br />or Orthodox ||rowspan="2"| 26.3% Greek Catholic<br />or Orthodox || 70% Ukrainians
|-
| || 22% Russians
|-
|}

{{bar box|title=2001 census|titlebar=#ddd|left1=|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|[[Ukrainians]]|dodgerblue|93.98}}
{{bar percent|[[Russians in Ukraine|Russians]]|purple|3.91}}
{{bar percent|[[Polish people|Poles]]|yellow|0.46}}
{{bar percent|[[Belarusians]]|red|0.26}}
{{bar percent|[[Romani people|Gypsies]]|black|0.22}}
{{bar percent|[[Ashkenazi Jews]]|black|0.07}}
{{bar percent|[[Germans]]|darkblue|0.04}}
{{bar percent|[[Moldovans]]|pink|0.04}}}} <ref>{{Cite web |title=Національний склад міст |url=https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/ethnic-cities |access-date=2024-06-01 |website=Datatowel.in.ua |language=uk}}</ref>

===Drohobych Raion===

In 1931, the total population of the Drohobych Raion was 194,456, distributed among various languages:<ref>{{cite web|first=Matthew|last=Bielawa|url=http://www.halgal.com/1931popbylang.html|title=Genealogy of Halychyna/Eastern Galicia: 1931 Polish Statistics: Population by language|publisher=halgal.com|date=2002|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref>
*Polish: 91,935 (47.3%)
*Ukrainian: 79,214 (40.7%)
*Yiddish: 20,484 (10.5%)

In January 2007, the total population of the metropolitan area was over 103,000 inhabitants.

==Geography==
===Climate===
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|Jan high C = 1.1
|Feb high C = 2.7
|Mar high C = 7.4
|Apr high C = 14.3
|May high C = 19.8
|Jun high C = 22.4
|Jul high C = 24.4
|Aug high C = 24.0
|Sep high C = 19.0
|Oct high C = 14.0
|Nov high C = 7.2
|Dec high C = 2.2
|year high C = 13.2
|Jan mean C = -2.4
|Feb mean C = -1.3
|Mar mean C = 2.7
|Apr mean C = 8.5
|May mean C = 13.8
|Jun mean C = 16.7
|Jul mean C = 18.6
|Aug mean C = 17.9
|Sep mean C = 13.3
|Oct mean C = 8.5
|Nov mean C = 3.2
|Dec mean C = -1.1
|year mean C = 8.2
|Jan low C = -5.9
|Feb low C = -5.1
|Mar low C = -1.5
|Apr low C = 3.0
|May low C = 7.5
|Jun low C = 11.0
|Jul low C = 13.0
|Aug low C = 12.1
|Sep low C = 8.2
|Oct low C = 3.9
|Nov low C = -0.3
|Dec low C = -4.4
|year low C = 3.5
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 27.8
|Feb precipitation mm = 34.4
|Mar precipitation mm = 38.8 
|Apr precipitation mm = 55.7
|May precipitation mm = 92.2
|Jun precipitation mm = 105.8
|Jul precipitation mm = 107.7
|Aug precipitation mm = 85.2
|Sep precipitation mm = 73.9
|Oct precipitation mm = 51.6
|Nov precipitation mm = 38.0
|Dec precipitation mm = 35.9
|year precipitation mm = 747.0
|unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 7.7
|Feb precipitation days = 8.4
|Mar precipitation days = 8.3
|Apr precipitation days = 9.0
|May precipitation days = 11.3
|Jun precipitation days = 12.4
|Jul precipitation days = 11.5
|Aug precipitation days = 9.2
|Sep precipitation days = 8.8
|Oct precipitation days = 7.8
|Nov precipitation days = 8.1
|Dec precipitation days = 8.7
|year precipitation days = 111.2
|Jan humidity = 80.0
|Feb humidity = 78.9
|Mar humidity = 75.5
|Apr humidity = 72.2
|May humidity = 75.3
|Jun humidity = 76.6
|Jul humidity = 76.7
|Aug humidity = 78.2
|Sep humidity = 80.3
|Oct humidity = 80.4
|Nov humidity = 82.5
|Dec humidity = 82.4
|year humidity = 78.3
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| archive-date = 17 July 2021
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| title = World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1981–2010
| publisher = World Meteorological Organization
| access-date = 17 July 2021}}</ref>
}}

==Economy==
Industries currently based in the city include [[Saltern|saltworks]], [[Oil refinery|oil-refineries]], [[chemical industry|chemicals]], [[machinery]], [[metallurgy]], and [[food processing]]. Drohobych has rich salt deposits and for that reason salt is one of the most popular symbols of the city and is depicted on its emblem.

== Education ==

=== Universities ===

* [[Drohobych State Pedagogical University of Ivan Franko]]

=== Colleges ===

* [[Drohobych Mechanical Technological College]]
* [[Drohobych Petroleum and Gas College]]

==Sport==
The city was home to one of Poland's best pre-war [[association football|football]] clubs; [[Junak Drohobycz]]. It was disbanded in 1939 due to the [[Soviet invasion of Poland]].

[[FC Halychyna Drohobych|Halychyna Drohobych]], founded in 1989 as [[FC Naftovyk Drohobych|Naftovyk Drohobych]] currently represents the city.

==Sights==
[[File:Drohobych2-2018.jpg|thumb|220px| A former castle tower]]
*[[St. George's Church, Drohobych|St. George's Church]] (c. 1500)
*St. Bartholomew Church (1392–16th century)
*its bell tower, former castle tower (late 13th century and 15th century)
*Ascension Church (late 15th century)
*Holy Cross Church (early 16th century)
*[[Choral Synagogue (Drohobych)|Choral Synagogue]] (1842–1865)
*Progressive Synagogue
*Town Hall (1920s)
*St. Peter's and Paul's Monastery
*Drohobych salt plant (in continuous operation since at least 1390; buildings of 19th–20th centuries)
*[[Drohobych Museum]]

<gallery widths="180" heights="135">
File:Drohobych - church.jpg|St. George's Church, 16th–17th centuries
File:Дрогобыч. Церковь Воздвижения Честного Креста..jpg|Church of the Holy Cross, 1613–1661
File:Костел Вознесіння Господнього, вул.Т.Шевченка,1, м.Дрогобич.JPG|[[Brick Gothic]] St. Bartholomew Church (14th–16th centuries) and its bell tower
File:Дрогобич - Ратуша-1.jpg|Town Hall
File:Drohobych2.JPG|Basilian monastery of Saints Peter and Paul, 1825–1828
File:Pohribets.jpg|A historic building
File:Drohobycz ulica stryjska 2008.jpg|Mazepa Street
File:4 Osmomysla Street, Drohobych (1).jpg|Osmomysla Street
File:Палац з парком 2.jpg|Villa of Raymond Jarosz
File:Палац з парком м. Дрогобич.JPG|Bianka Villa
File:Дрогобыч. Фрагмент центра города..jpg|Shevska Street
File:46-106-5003 Drohobych Park RB 18.jpg|City Park, 19th century
File:Drohobych Synagogue2018.jpg|Until 1918, the [[Choral Synagogue (Drohobych)|Choral Synagogue]] had been the central synagogue of [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Galicia and Lodomeria]]
File:Церква Пресвятої Трійці в Дрогобичі.jpg|Holy Trinity Cathedral
File:Дрогобыч. Перекрёсток..jpg|A historic building
File:Вул. Солоний Ставок, 27, Комплекс споруд Дрогобицького солеварного заводу, 02113.jpg|Old mine of the [[Drohobych salt plant]], 1875
</gallery>

==Notable people==
===Politics===
*[[Zenon Kossak]], Ukrainian military and political leader (born here)
*[[Andriy Atanasovych Melnyk|Andriy Melnyk]], Ukrainian military and political leader (born near Drohobych)
*[[David Horowitz (economist)]], Israeli economist and the first Governor of the Bank of Israel.
*[[Leon Reich]] (1879–1929), lawyer and member of the Sejm of Poland (born here)

===Arts===
*[[Elisabeth Bergner]], Oscar-nominated Austrian-German stage and screen actress
*[[Ivan Franko]], Ukrainian poet and writer, born in Nahuievychi, near Drohobych
*[[Irene Frisch]], Jewish-Polish writer and memoirist
*[[Leopold Gottlieb]], Jewish-Polish painter
*[[Maurycy Gottlieb]], Jewish-Polish painter
*[[Diana Reiter]], Jewish-Polish architect, victim of Holocaust
*[[Ephraim Moses Lilien]], Jewish-Zionist painter
*[[Alfred Schreyer]], Jewish-Polish vocalist and violinist
*[[Bruno Schulz]], Polish-Jewish writer, graphic artist, and literary critic
*[[Paula Szalit]], Polish-Jewish pianist, composer and child prodigy
*[[Kazimierz Wierzyński]], Polish poet and writer

===Other fields===
*[[Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt]], Polish war hero
*[[Yuriy Drohobych]], first doctor of medicine in Ukraine, 1481–1482 rector of the [[University of Bologna]]
*[[Yaroslav Popovych]], [[cycle sport|cyclist]] (born here)
*[[Józef Schreier]], Polish-Jewish mathematician
*[[Viktor Vekselberg]], Russian oligarch

==Twin towns and sister cities==
Drohobych is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:
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|{{flagicon|POL}} Poland
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|[[Buffalo, New York]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
| 2000
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|[[Dębica]]<ref name="Dębica twinnings">{{cite web|title=Partnerstwo Samorządów Siłą Europy|trans-title=Local Government Partnerships as the Power of Europe|url=http://www.wrobel-druk.pl/europa/index.php?sId=2&id_cat=6&strona=6|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809090240/http://wrobel-druk.pl/europa/index.php?sId=2&id_cat=6&strona=6|archive-date=2016-08-09|access-date=2013-08-13|work=Europa Miast|language=pl}}</ref>
|{{flagicon|POL}} Poland
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|[[Legnica]]
|{{flagicon|POL}} Poland
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|[[Muscatine, Iowa]]
|{{flagicon|USA}} USA
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|[[Olecko]]
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==References==
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==External links==
{{sisterlinks|Drohobych}}
*[http://droginfo.com.ua Drohobych Info - biggest news site] {{in lang|uk}}
*[http://drohobych.org Drohobych - city portal] {{in lang|uk}}
*[http://Drohobych.com Drohobych.com - Drohobych city administration website] {{in lang|uk}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930221430/http://gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/pls/z7502/A005?rdat1=06.07.2005&rf7571=21672 Drohobych] in [[Verkhovna Rada]] of Ukraine database {{in lang|uk}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030809023411/http://Drohobych.com.ua Drohobych the King's city] {{in lang|uk}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/19991128114012/http://Drohobych.net Drohobych.Net] {{in lang|uk}}
*[http://www.annefrankandme.com/ Stories by Irene Frisch, a Drohobych-born Holocaust Survivor]
*[http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com//pages%5CD%5CR%5CDrohobych.htm Drohobych] in [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/ Encyclopedia of Ukraine]
*[http://dds.edu.ua/en/about/2/history.html Seminary of Blessed Martyrs Severyn, Yakym and Vitalij] of [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church]], in Drohobych
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131104100547/http://www.drohobyczer-zeitung.com/2012/10/drohobych-during-period-of-nazism-foto.html Drohobych during the period of Nazism (PHOTOS)]
* {{JewishGen-LocalityPage|1038184|Drohobych, Ukraine}}
* [https://drogmedia.net.ua/ МедіаДрогобиччина]

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