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Ivano-Frankivsk , is a historic city located in western Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
.

It is the administrative center of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine in western Ukraine. Its capital city is Ivano-Frankivsk.In the past the area was known as Stanislaw?w Voivodship and Stanislav Oblast ....
(province

Oblast

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....
(district) within the oblast

Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
. Prior to 1962, the city was known as Stanyslaviv (; ; ; ; ).

The estimated population was 204,200 as of 2004.
Climate and Geography
The city is situated in the Carpathian

Carpathian Mountains

The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc of roughly 1,500 km across Central Europe and Eastern Europe, making them the largest mountain range in Europe....
region, approximately 120 metres above sea level

Sea level

Mean sea level is the average height of the sea, with reference to a suitable reference surface. Defining the reference level , however, involves complex measurement, and accurately determining MSL can prove difficult....
.

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Ivano-Frankivsk , is a historic city located in western Ukraine

Ukraine

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Oblast

Raion

Oblast

Climate and Geography

The city is situated in the Carpathian

Carpathian Mountains

Sea level

Continental climate

Continental climate is a climate that is characterized by winter temperatures cold enough to support a fixed period of snow cover each year, and relatively moderate precipitation occurring mostly in summer, although east coast areas may show an even distribution of precipitation....
with warm summers, and fairly cold winters.

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Ave. high °C Celsius Celsius is a temperature scale that is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius , who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death.... (°F Fahrenheit Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit , who proposed it in 1724. Today, the scale has largely been replaced by the Celsius scale; it is still in use for non-scientific purposes in the United States and a few other countries such as Belize.... )	-3 (31)	-1 (33)	6 (43)	12 (54)	18 (65)	20 (69)	22 (72)	22 (72)	18 (66)	12 (55)	5 (42)	1 (35)	11 (53)
Ave. low °C (°F)	-6 (20)	-6 (21)	-1 (29)	3 (38)	8 (47)	11 (53)	13 (56)	12 (54)	9 (49)	3 (39)	4 (31)	4 (24)	3 (39)
Source: Weatherbase

Administrative division

There are five villages (selo) that are part of the municipality (similar to suburbs): Vovchynets, Krykhivtsi, Mykytyntsi, Uhornyky, and Khryplyn.

History

The city, named Stanislawów, was erected as a fortress

Fortification

Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs....
to protect the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Tatar invasions

Tatar invasions

The Mongol invasion of Europe from the east took place over the course of three centuries, from the Middle Ages to the early modern period.The terms Tatars or Tartars are applied to nomadic Turkic peoples who, themselves, were conquered by Mongols and incorporated to their horde....
. It was built on the site of the village of Zabolottya, which had been founded in 1437. Its name was coined by a Polish nobleman Andrzej Potocki

Andrzej Potocki

Andrzej Potocki was a Poland szlachcic, magnate.Great Chorazy of the Crown since 1660, voivode of Kij?w Voivodship since 1668, voivode of Krak?w Voivodship since 1682, castellan of Krak?w since 1682, Field Crown Hetman since 1684....
, who honored his father, Stanislaw Rewera Potocki.

The city was first mentioned in 1662 in connection with it being granted the Magdeburg rights

Magdeburg rights

Magdeburg Rights or Magdeburg Law were a set of German town laws regulating the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted with it by a local ruler....
. Soon afterwards, when in 1672 the Turks conquered the fortress of Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamianets-Podilskyi is a city located on the Smotrych River in southwestern Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi. Formerly the Capital of the Khmelnytsky Oblast , the city is now the administrative center of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion within the Khmelnytsky Oblast , after the administrative center of the oblast was moved from the ci...
, Stanislawów, together with Halych

Halych

Halych is a historic city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The town gave its name to the historic province and kingdom of Galicia , of which it was the capital until the early 14th century, when the seat of the local princes was moved to Lviv....
, became a strongpoint against Turkish forces. It was attacked and besieged in 1676, but the Turks did not manage to capture and pillage the city. However, Stanislawów was so badly destroyed that in 1677 the Sejm in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
relieved the city of its tax duties.

Jews were permitted to build houses for themselves on the "Street of the Jews" (which then was by the flood bank

Levee

A levee, lev?e, dike , embankment, floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial slope or wall to regulate water levels....
). Later, the fortress also successfully withstood attacks by Turkish

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
and Russian

Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
forces. Extensively rebuilt during the Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
, it was sometimes called Little Leopolis
Lviv

Lviv is a major city in western Ukraine.It is regarded as one of the main Ukrainian culture. In 2001, it had 725,000 inhabitants, of whom 88 per cent were Ukrainians, 9 per cent Russians and 1 per cent Poles....
. The city was also an important center of Armenian culture

Culture of Armenia

Over the years Armenia has developed a modern, unique and successful culture. Many aspects of the culture are based on the geography, literature, Armenian_architecture, dance, and music of the people....
in Poland, with an Armenian church, in which a painting of Mary was kept. The painting was in 1945 moved to Gdansk

Gdansk

Gdansk is the city at the centre of the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship....
.

In 1772, after the Partitions of Poland

Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth....
it became a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and successively of the autonomous Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria official ) was a kingdom dependent to the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire and Austria?Hungary from 1772 to 1917; independent from July 26, 1917 to November 14, 1918....
. During World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, the frontline was for some time in the area of the city, Russians and Austrians fought several battles in Stanislawów and its vicinity, and in 1917 Russian forces burned the central districts during the Kerensky Offensive

Kerensky Offensive

The Kerensky Offensive was the last Russian Empire offensive in World War I. It took place in July 1917....
.

In October 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic

West Ukrainian National Republic

The West Ukrainian National Republic was a short-lived republic that existed in late 1918 and early 1919 in eastern Galicia , that claimed parts of Bukovina and Carpathian Ruthenia and included the cities of Lviv, Przemysl, Kolomyia, and Ivano-Frankivs'k....
(ZUNR) was proclaimed.

In 1919, it was a subject of Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
–Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
skirmishes, and it eventually was annexed by Poland as part of the Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II....
as the capital of the Stanislawów Voivodship

Stanislawów Voivodeship

Stanislaw?w Voivodeship was an administrative unit of interwar Poland . It ceased to exist in September of 1939, following Germany and Soviet aggression on Poland ....
. It was occupied by Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n army between May 25 - August 21 in 1919.

In 1920, the Red Army

Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
took over the city for a brief period. In the few days between the retreat of the Red Army and the entry of the Polish army, the private army of Symon Petlura roamed around wildly for a few days. Two Jews were killed, there was a great deal of property damage, and several Jewish women were raped..

According to the 1931 Polish census there were 198,400 residents in the Stanislawów county (159 per square kilometer, the area of the county was 1249 km².). Among them there were 120,214 Poles, 49,032 Ukrainians, and 26,996 Jews. Population of the city itself was as follows: 27 000 in 1900, 28 2000 in 1921 and 60 000 in 1931 (70 000 together with the suburb of Knihinin, which was in the 1930s a separate commune). During the interbellum period, Stanislawów was a large military base of the Polish Army

Polish Land Forces

Polish Land Forces is a branch of Poland's Polish Armed Forces....
, with two major units stationed there - 11th Infantry Division and Podolska Cavalry Brigade

Podolska Cavalry Brigade

Podolska Cavalry Brigade was a cavalry unit of the Polish Army in the interbellum period. It was created on April 1, 1937 out of the 6th Independent Cavalry Brigade....
.

In the 1939 invasion of Poland

Invasion of Poland (1939)

The Invasion of Poland in 1939 precipitated World War II. It was carried out by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak invasion of Poland contingent....
by German

Nazi Germany

Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
, the territory was captured by the Soviets

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
in September 1939 and included into the Ukrainian SSR. Between the fall of 1939 and June 1941, the Soviet regime ordered thousands of inhabitants of the city (most of them Poles) to leave their houses and move to Siberia

Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
, where most of them perished (see: Population transfer in the Soviet Union

Population transfer in the Soviet Union

Population transfer in the Soviet Union may be classified into the following broad categories: deportations of "anti-Soviet" categories of population, often classified as "enemies of workers", deportations of nationalities, labor force transfer, and organized migrations in opposite directions to fill the ethnic cleansing territories....
)

Nazi occupation

There were more than 40,000 Jews in Stanislawów when it was occupied by the Germans

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
on July 26, 1941.

During the Nazi

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
occupation (1941-44), more than 600 educated Poles and most of the city's Jewish population were murdered.

On August 1, 1941, Galicia

Galicia (Central Europe)

Galicia is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, named after Ukra?ni?n city of Halych.The nucleus of historic Galicia is formed of three regions of western Ukraine: Lvivska oblast, Ternopilska oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast....
became the fifth district of the General Government

General Government

The General Government refers to a part of the territories of Poland under German military occupation during World War II by Nazi Germany and was an autonomous part of "Greater Germany"....
. On October 12, 1941, later called "Blutsonntag" ("Bloody Sunday"), thousands of Jews were gathered on the market square

Market square

File:Market_Place_in_Providence_Rhode_Island.jpgThe market square is a feature of many European and colonial towns. It is an open area where market stall s are traditionally set out for trading, commonly on one particular day of the week known as 'market day'....
; then the German forces escorted them to the Jewish cemetery, where mass grave

Mass grave

A mass grave is a grave containing multiple, usually unidentified human corpses. There is no strict definition of the minimum number of bodies required to constitute a mass grave....
s had already been prepared. On the way the German and Ukrainian escorts beat and tortured the Jews. At the cemetery the Jews were compelled to give away their valuables and show their papers. The men of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei; Sipo

Sicherheitspolizei

The Sicherheitspolizei , often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Nazi Germany to describe the state political and criminal investigation security agencies....
) then started mass shootings, assisted by members of the German Order Police (Ordnungspolizei

Ordnungspolizei

The Ordnungspolizei was the name for the uniformed regular Germany police force in existence during the period of Nazi Germany, notably between 1936 and 1945....
) and the railroad police. The Germans ordered the Jews to undress in groups and then proceed to the graves where they were shot. They fell into the grave or were ordered to jump in before being shot. The German forces shot between 8,000 and 12,000 Jews on that day.

Up to July 1942 most killings were carried out in Rudolf's Mill, and from August onward, in the courtyard of the Sipo headquarters. On August 22, 1942, the Germans held a "reprisal Aktion" for the murder of a Ukrainian, which they blamed on a Jew. More than 1,000 Jews were shot. German policemen raped Jewish girls and women before taking them to the courtyard of the Sipo headquarters.

About 11,000 Jews were still living in Stanislawów when the next Aktion took place. On February 22 or 23, 1943, Brandt, who had succeeded Hans Krüger as SS-Hauptsturmführer, ordered the police forces to surround the ghetto -- initiating the final liquidation. Four days after the beginning of the Aktion, the Germans put up posters announcing that Stanislawów was "free of Jews

Judenfrei

Judenrein and Judenfrei were Glossary of the Third Reich to designate an area free of Jewish presence during The Holocaust. The words bear slightly different connotations; while Judenfrei merely refers to "freeing" an area of all of its Jewish citizens, Judenrein demands that any trace of Jewish blood be removed as an impuri...
."

When the Soviet army reached Stanislawów on July 27, 1944, there were about 100 Jews in the city who had survived in hiding. In total about 1,500 Jews from Stanislawów survived the war.

A formal indictment against Hans Krüger was issued in October 1965, after six years of investigations by the Dortmund

Dortmund

Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the States of Germany of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 587,830 makes it the largest city in the region, 7th-largest in Germany, and 34th-largest in the European Union....
State Prosecutor's Office. On May 6, 1968, the Münster

Münster

M?nster is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region and it is also capital of the government region M?nster ....
State Court sentenced him to life imprisonment

Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment or life incarceration is a sentence of prison for a serious crime, often for most or even all of the criminal's remaining life, but in fact for a period which varies between jurisdictions: many countries have a maximum possible period of time a prisoner may be incarcerated, or require the possibility of parole after...
. He was released in 1986.

In Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
and Salzburg

Salzburg

is the List of cities and towns in Austria#List of cities and towns by population size in Austria and the capital city of the states of Austria of Salzburg ....
there were other trial proceedings against members of the Schupo

Schutzpolizei

The Schutzpolizei is a branch of the Landespolizei, the state police of Germany. Schutzpolizei literally means security or protection police but is best translated as Uniformed Police....
and the Gestapo

Gestapo

The was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Under the overall administration of the Schutzstaffel , it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and was considered a dual organization of the Sicherheitsdienst and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei ....
in Stanislawów in 1966.

Recent history

From 1944, it was a part of the Soviet Union until Ukraine gained its independence in August 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Soviets forced most of the Polish population to leave the city, most of them settled in the Recovered Territories

Recovered Territories

Recovered or Regained Territories was the official term used by the Polish post-war authorities to denote Former eastern territories of Germany from Germany to Poland after the Second World War....
.

In 1962 the name changed to honor Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko

Ivan Franko

Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainians poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, economist, and political activist. He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist movement in western Ukraine....
. Five years later, Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas

Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas

Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas is an institution of higher education in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Since its establishment in 1967, the university's focus remains on preparing qualified and experienced specialists for the oil and gas industries....
was established.

In the early 1990s the city was a strong center of the Ukrainian independence movement.

In 2002, the Anti-Defamation League

Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League is a United States of America based, international non-governmental organization. Describing itself as "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency", the ADL states that it "fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all."...
(ADL) called a move by the city council to honor Nazi war veterans, of the SS Galicia division whom the head of the SS

Schutzstaffel

The , abbreviated SS- or - was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the F?hrer's "Praetorian Guard," the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" and a force that, fielding almost a million men, managed to exert as much political influence as th...
, Himmler

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a Nazi Germany German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, competing with Hermann G?ring, Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels....
, congratulated in May 1944 for having cleansed Ukraine of all its Jews as "fighters for independence," inexcusable and "profoundly insulting." In 1986, a Canadian Commission on War Crime

War crime

War crimes are "violations of the laws or customs of war"; including but not limited to "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps", "the murder or ill-treatment of prisoner of war", the killing of hostages, "the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, and any devast...
s reviewing possible deportation

Deportation

Deportation generally means the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. The expulsion of natives is also called banishment, exile, or penal transportation....
of certain members of the regiment from Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
had determined that the SS Galicia regiment should not be indicted by the Commission for war crimes, and that charges of war crimes by the Division had never been substantiated.

Sports

Ivano-Frankivsk is home to a number of sports teams. Most notably it was home to football club FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk

FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk

FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was a Ukraine football team based in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine and the capital of Prykarpattia as a geographic region....
. The club is currently disbanded. Its former president reorganized the local university (University of Nafty i Hazu

Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas

FSC Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk

Originally as Fakel Ivano-Frankivsk, a Ukraine football club based in Ivano-Frankivsk. The club was formed out of a school team of the University of Nafty i Hazu ....
". That team does currently plays in the Ukrainian First League

Ukrainian First League

The Persha Liha or Ukrainian First League is a football league in Ukraine....
. Also, in the interbellum period it was home to the military-based Polish

Polish

Polish may refer to:* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe* Polish language* Poles, people from Poland* Polish * Maxwell Street Polish, Polish sausage sandwich popular in Chicago...
soccer team Rewera Stanislawów

Rewera Stanislawów

Wojskowo-Cywilny Klub Sportowy Rewera Stanislaw?w was a Poland football team, located in Ivano-Frankivsk , on the historic territory of Kresy Wschodnie ....
. The city also is the home to a hockey team HC Vatra Ivano-Frankivsk that competes in the Ukrainian Major Hockey League.

Football Clubs

Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk
FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk

FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was a Ukraine football team based in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine and the capital of Prykarpattia as a geographic region....
Fakel Ivano-Frankivsk
FSC Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk

Originally as Fakel Ivano-Frankivsk, a Ukraine football club based in Ivano-Frankivsk. The club was formed out of a school team of the University of Nafty i Hazu ....
Chornohora Ivano-Frankivsk
FC Chornohora Ivano-Frankivsk

FC Chornohora Ivano-Frankivsk is a Ukraine football club based in Ivano-Frankivsk. It plays in the Oblast Championship. It used to compete in the Ukrainian Second League....
Teplovyk Ivano-Frankivsk
URAGAN Ivano-Frankivsk

Basketball Clubs

Hoverla Ivano-Frankivsk

Hockey Clubs

HC Vatra Ivano-Frankivsk

Places of Interest

Ratusha - the center of the town. Once it used to be the city town hall, later it became to be an ethno-cultural museum. Around there are two major temples, the Armenian
Armenian

Armenian may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus, between Europe and Asia* Armenians, persons from Armenia, or of Armenian descent....
church (Orthodox
Eastern Orthodox church architecture

An Orthodox church as a church building of Eastern Orthodox Church has a distinct, recognizable style among church architectures.History...
), and Katedra (Catholic
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , also known as the Ukrainian Catholic Church, is one of the successor Church body to the Baptism of Kiev by Grand Prince Vladimir the Great of Kiev , in 988....
).
Shevchenko Park - a big park with amusement park, a big lake, couple of full-size football fields, and many others interesting places worth of interest.
Independece Square
The White House - the big white house in the middle of the town. It is the administration building of the Regional administration.
The Market place - huge area that covers the old market and the new market with couple of supermaket stores.
100m stretch (sto-metrovka) - part of the Halytska street that consists of series of shopettes and restricted to pedestrian traffic. That stretch is much longer, but for whatever reason it is known as sto-metrovka (100 m).

Pop culture

Miniuative and unofficially used by its residence name is simply Franyk.

People

Twin Towns - Sister Cities

Ivano-Frankivsk is twinned

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
with:

Baia Mare

Baia Mare is a town and municipality in Ordinal direction part of Romania. It is the residence of Maramures county. The town is situated approximately 600 kilometres away from Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, 70 kilometres away from the border with Hungary and 50 kilometres away from the border with Ukraine....
in Romania

Romania

Brest, Belarus

For other uses, see BrestBrest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk, is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Western Bug River and Mukhavets River rivers meet....
in Belarus

Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....

Serpukhov

Serpukhov is an old town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, which is situated at the confluence of the Oka River and the Nara Rivers. It is located 99 km south from Moscow on the Moscow—Simferopol highway....
in Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
Rybnik

Rybnik

Rybnik is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship. Rybnik is located close to the border with the Czech Republic and just outside the southern border of the largest urban area in Poland, the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union....
in Poland

Poland

Ivano-Frankivsk

Climate and Geography

Administrative division

History

Nazi occupation

Recent history

Sports

Football Clubs

Basketball Clubs

Hockey Clubs

Places of Interest

Pop culture

People

Twin Towns - Sister Cities

See also

Further reading

External links