Ivano-Frankivsk

Ivano-Frankivsk Івано-Франківськ
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Coordinates:
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality
Founded	1650
City rights	1662
Government
• Type	Executive Committee - City Council
• Mayor	Viktor Anushkevychus (UPP)
Area
• City	83.73 km2 (32.3 sq mi)
Elevation	244 m (801 ft)
Population (2009)
• Density	2,752/km2 (7,127.6/sq mi)
• Metro	240,768
Postal code	76000
Area code(s)	+380 342
Sister cities	Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Website	www.mvk.if.ua

Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian: Івано-Франківськ; formerly Stanyslaviv,^[1] Stanislau, or Stanisławów see below) is a historic city located in the western Ukraine.^[2] It is the administrative centre of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province), and is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast, municipality.

Built in the mid 17th century as a private fortress of the Potocki family, with the partition of Poland in 1772 was passed to the Habsburg Empire, after which it became a property of the State authorities of the Austrian Empire. It was during that time when the fortress was transformed into one of the most prominent cities at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. After the World War I for a short stint it served a temporary capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, after fall of which Stanislawow became part of the Second Polish Republic. At the dawn of the World War II the city was "liberated" by the Soviet forces that were soon overran by the Nazi Germany. With the liberation of Ukraine in 1944, in the city for the next 45 years was established the Soviet regime. Few years before the fall of the Soviet Union in the city was raised the blue-yellow flag as the symbol of the independent Ukraine.

A city visitor may find elements of various cultures intertwined within Ivano-Frankivsk, the Polish Rathaus, the Austrian city's business center, the Soviet panel multi-stories residential apartment buildings at the city's urban-rural fringe, and others. The city is the third in population amongst other cities in the Carpathian Euroregion, yielding only to Lviv and Košice.

Contents 1 Name 2 History 2.1 Timeline 3 Climate and Geography 4 Population and demographics 5 Infrastructure 5.1 Streets 5.2 Routes 5.3 City Squares 5.4 Rural-urban fringe districts 5.5 Administration 5.6 City's Council 5.7 Recent city mayors 6 Education 6.1 Universities 7 Culture and sports 7.1 National Landmarks 7.1.1 Other attractions 7.2 Architecture 7.3 Theaters 7.4 City Parks 7.5 Night Life 7.6 Sports 8 City's radio, television, press media 9 Notable people 10 International relations 10.1 Twin towns – Sister cities 11 See also 12 References 12.1 Bibliography 12.2 Notes 13 External links

Name

Stanisławów was founded as a fortress in 1650 and was named after the Polish hetman Stanisław "Rewera" Potocki, although other sources claim it is named after his grandson (see History of Ivano-Frankivsk). In 1772 its name was transliterated into German as Stanislau when it became part of the Austrian Empire and later Austria-Hungary; however, after the revolution of 1868 the city carried three different linguistic renderings of its name: German, Polish, and Ruthenian (German: Stanislau; Polish: Stanisławów; Ukrainian: Станиславів, Stanyslaviv). Other spellings used in the local press-media included: Russian: Станиславов and Yiddish: סטאַניסלאוו. After World War II it was changed by the Soviet authorities into the simplified version Stanislav (Ukrainian: Станіслав; Russian: Станислав). In 1962, on the city's 300th anniversary, it was renamed to honour the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. Due to the city's over-sized name, unofficially it is sometimes called simply Franyk^[3] by its residents. Even though Ivano-Frankivsk is the officially accepted name, the city's original name was never fully abandoned and/or forgotten and can be found throughout the city in all kinds of variations.

Name change

• 1662 founded as Stanisławów
• 1772 transliteration change to Stanislau
• 1919 transliteration change to Stanislaviv
• 1919 transliteration change to Stanisławów
• 1939 transliteration change to Stanislav
• 1941 transliteration change to Stanislau
• 1944 transliteration change to Stanislav
• November 9, 1962 name change to Ivano-Frankivsk (for honour to Ivan Franko)

History

Timeline

• 1650–1662: establishing a private fortress of Potocki and seeking the Magdeburg rights

• 1662–1772: Stanisławów, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (within the Kingdom of Poland),

• 1772–1809: Stanislau, Austrian Monarchy (within the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria),

• 1809–1815: Stanislav, Russian Empire,

• 1815–1918: Stanislau, Austrian Empire, then Austria–Hungary,

• November 1918 – May 1919: Stanyslaviv, West Ukrainian National Republic,

• May 1919 – September 1939: Stanisławów, Poland, seat of the Stanisławów Voivodship,

• October 1939 – June 1941: Stanyslaviv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,

• July 1941 – August 1944: Stanislau, seat of the Stanislau Kreis, Distrikt Galizien, Generalgouvernement,

• August 1944–1991: Stanislav, (renamed in 1962: Ivano-Frankivsk), oblast seat, Ukrainian SSR,

• Post–1991: Ivano-Frankivsk, independent Ukraine.

Climate and Geography

As is the case with most of Ukraine, the climate is moderate continental with warm summers, and fairly cold winters. The following climate date provided for the past 19 years. The average number of days with precipitation is 187 spread almost equally throughout a year. Most of precipitation takes place during the winter months and least - early fall. Thunderstorms occur mostly in summer months averaging around 25 annually. Ivano-Frankivsk averages about 296 days of fog or misty days with about 24 per month.

Climate data for Ivano-Frankivsk
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	13 (56)	18 (65)	24 (75)	25 (77)	30 (86)	31 (87)	34 (94)	32 (90)	32 (89)	27 (80)	18 (64)	17 (63)	34 (94)
Average high °C (°F)	−1 (31)	1 (33)	6 (43)	12 (54)	18 (65)	21 (69)	22 (72)	22 (72)	19 (66)	13 (55)	6 (42)	2 (35)	12 (53)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−3 (26)	−3 (27)	3 (37)	8 (47)	13 (56)	16 (61)	18 (64)	18 (64)	14 (57)	8 (47)	3 (37)	−1 (30)	8 (46)
Average low °C (°F)	−7 (20)	−6 (21)	−2 (29)	3 (38)	8 (47)	12 (53)	13 (56)	12 (54)	9 (49)	4 (39)	−1 (31)	−4 (24)	4 (39)
Record low °C (°F)	−28 (−19)	−31 (−24)	−24 (−11)	−5 (23)	−1 (30)	2 (36)	7 (44)	4 (39)	−3 (27)	−8 (18)		−22 (−8)	−31 (−24)
Precipitation mm (inches)	31 (1.22)	32 (1.26)	35 (1.38)	54 (2.13)	87 (3.43)	98 (3.86)	104 (4.09)	81 (3.19)	53 (2.09)	36 (1.42)	37 (1.46)	41 (1.61)	689 (27.13)
Avg. precipitation days	19	17	16	16	15	17	15	12	13	13	16	18	187
Avg. snowy days	14	13	9	3						1	7	13	60
Source no. 1: Weatherbase[4]
Source no. 2: Meteoprog[5]

The city is situated in the Carpathian region north east of the mountain range, sitting approximately 120 metres (390 ft) above mean sea level.^[6] One of the several main geographical features is the Vovchynets Hill also known as the Vovchynets Mountains. The hill reaches 300-350 metres (1,150 ft) above the 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 a natural border between the Pokuttya Highland and Stanislav Basin. The Vovchynets Hill is located just outside and north-east of Ivano-Frankivsk. South-east from the Stanislav basin in the direction of the Prut Valley is located the Khorosnen (Prut-Bystrytsia) Highland. The highest point of that highland is the mount Hostra 425 metres (1,394 ft).

The closest neighboring city is Tysmenytsia that lies less than 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the east. Another cities that lay in the radius of 25–30 km (less than 20 mi) are Tlumach (east), Nadvirna (south), Kalush (west), and Halych (north).

Population and demographics

Historical populations
Year	Pop.	±%
1732	3,300	—
1792	5,448	+65.1%
1849	11,000	+101.9%
1869*	14,786	+34.4%
1880	18,626	+26.0%
1900*	27,012	+45.0%
1910*	29,850	+10.5%
1914	64,000	+114.4%
1921	51,391	−19.7%
1931	60,626	+18.0%
2007	222,538	+267.1%
2008	223,634	+0.5%
2009	224,401	+0.3%

Note: Historical population record is taken out of Ivano-Frankivsk portal (Ukrainian), more recent - the Regional Directorate of Statistics (Ukrainian). There is also other information on a population growth such as the Jewishgen.org. With asterisk there are identified years of approximate data. In the 18th century differentiation among Poles and Ukrainians was conducted on the religious backgrounds rather than on 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

Infrastructure

Public trasportation

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

Railway transportation

There is one railway terminal locally known as Vokzal. There are also smaller rail 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 work began on a new bus terminal next to the railway terminus on Zaliznychna Street. Inauguration of the new bus terminal took place on May 22, 2010. At the opening ceremony the mayor of the city, Viktor Anushkevichus, 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.^[7]

Airways transportation

The city is served by the 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 expires in 2013.

Lodging

There area many lodging options in Ivano-Frankivsk. Ivano-Frankivsk has one four-star hotel ("Park Hotel") and three three-star hotels ("Nadia", "Auscoprut", "Pid Templem").

Streets

Full list of renamed streets (Ukrainian)

All street names 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-contriversial name. For example, Gagarin Street (connecting the city with its suburbs) became Vovchynets Street, Suvorov Street is now Harbar Street, and Soviet Street is Nezalezhnist (Independence) Street.

Around 100 other streets were renamed.

Important transportation arteries

• Independence Street (vulytsya Nezalezhnosti) / Tysmenytsya Road (doroha Tysmenetska)
• Halych Road (vulytsya Halytska)
• Hetman Mazepa Street (vulytsya Hetmana Mazepy) / Krykhivtsi Road (doroha Krykhivetska)
• Yevhen Konovalets Road (vulytsya Yevhena Konovaltsya)
• Vovchynets Street (vulytsya Vovchynetska)
• Vasyl Stefanyk Shore Drive (naberezhna Vasylya Stefanyka)

Routes

The city of Ivano-Frankivsk is located on the intersection of three major national (Ukraine) routes: H18, H09, and H10. There also is one important regional route T09-06. All the H-routes eventually connect to E50.

City Squares

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

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

Rural-urban fringe districts

As a lot of regional centers in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union, Ivano-Frankivsk is also notorious for its rural-urban fringe panel building residential districts.

• BAM
• Kaskad
• Positron
• Budivelnykiv

Administration

Both city and oblast administrations as well as the regional council are all located in a massive white building on the Hrushevsky Street locally known as Bily Dim or Bily Budynok. In front of the building 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 is located 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, on the both sides of which are located statues: kamenyar (west) and kobzar (east).

City's Council

The city's council currently consists of 60 deputies. The political representation of the V convocation by political bloks was elected as such: Our Ukraine 22 (Our Ukraine 9, Rukh 8, United Centre 1, Industrialists and Entrepreneurs 2, no affiliation 2), BYuT 17 (Batkivschyna 14, USDP 2, no affiliation 1), Ukrainian People's Party 14 (UPP 3, CUN 1, United Centre 3, Sobor 1, no affiliation 6), Party of Regions 4 (Party of Regions 3, no affiliation 1), PORA 3 (PORA 2, no affiliation 1).

Recent city mayors

• Bohdan Borovych (OUN) July 1994 – June 1998
• Zinoviy Shkutiak (Our Ukraine) March 1998 – March 26, 2006
• Viktor Anushkevychus (UPP) March 26, 2006 – present (reelected in 2010)

Education

The city has over 25 public schools of general education for grades 1 through 11. Aside of them there are some privately owned schools and lyceums. The city also has several professional public institutes.

There 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, others.

Universities

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

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

Culture and sports

National Landmarks

• the Church of the Holy Resurrection (Greek Catholic Cathedral),
• the Church of Virgin Mary (at the moment used as museum of Sacred Art of Galicia)
• Latin Collegiate
• the Armenian church (presently used by one of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches).
• City Brewery

Other attractions

• 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 others interesting places worth of seeing.

• 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 the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. In front of the building there are two full-size sculptural monuments of Franko and Shevchenko.

• Bazaar – a huge area that covers the old market and the new market with couple of supermarket stores locally known as the universal stores.

• 100 m (328.08 ft) stretch (stometrivka) – unofficial local name for part of Independence Street that consists of series of shopettes and restricted to pedestrian traffic only.

Architecture

• Stanislav fortress compound and Potocki palace
• Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection, locally known as Katedra (Greek-Catholic Cathedral)
• Jesuit Kostel – the second building of Jesuits after they were forced to surrender Katedra
• Fara – also known as the Collegiate Church of Virgin Mary and Saint Stanislaus (today - the Regional Art Museum)
• Ratusha – former city hall
• Battle of Grunwald monument – commemorating the defeat of the Teutonic Order in 1410
• Monument to Adam Mickiewicz (1930), it was reconstructed in 1989, located on Adam Mickewicz Square next to a regional concert (philharmony) hall. It is the oldest surviving monument in the city and was built on November 20, 1898 (sculptor Tadeusz Błotnicki).
• Monument to Stepan Bandera and Museum of the Insurgent Army at the European Square was awarded the best architectural project of 2007 designed by a local architecture company "Atelie Arkhitektury"^[8][9]

Theaters

• Academic Regional Music-Drama Theater of Franko
• Academic Regional Puppet Theater of Pidhiryanka
• Regional Concert Philharmony
• Cinema theater "Lumier" (previously of Franko)
• Cinema theater "Cosmos"

Former

• Cinema theater "Patriot"
• Cinema theater of Shevchenko (previously "Pioneer")
• "Videotech"
• Cinema theater of Gorky
• Cinema theater "Komsomolets"
• Cinema theater of Shevchenko (original)
• Summer cinema theater "Trembita"

City Parks

• Shevchenko Park
• Park of Warriors-Internationalists
• Park "Valy"
• Pryvokzalny park
• Memorial Park, near the regional Ivan Franko Academic Music-Drama Theater

Night Life

• • Relax - Hip-hop, R&B
  • Vavilon - Techno
  • Edison - House
  • Kilimanjaro - Mix pop, Rap, R&B

Sports

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 1950s. Since 2007 the club only fields its youth team Spartak-93 and competes at the Children-Youth Football League of Ukraine. The former president of Spartak Anatoliy Revutskiy reorganized the local university (University of Nafty i Hazu) team in 2007 into the new "FSK Prykarpattia" with support of the city mayor Anushkevichus 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 that was based on the local Polish garrison and was called Rewera Stanisławów (1908). That club competed at a regional level that has evolved at that period. With the start of the 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 1970s.

The city also is the home to a futsal team, PFC Uragan Ivano-Frankivsk, that competes in the Ukrainian Futsal Championship. They are the current 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 a 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 Dariya Zgoba who won gold on the Uneven Bars in the 2007 European Championships as well as a finalist on the Beijing Olympics and another - Yana Demyanchuk, who won gold on the balance beam at the 2009 European Championships.

Other clubs include:

• Hoverla Ivano-Frankivsk (basketball)
• Roland Ivano-Frankivsk (rugby)

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), belongs to Prykarpattia National University of Stefanyk
• Stadium of Oil and Gaz University
• Sport-Recreational Center "Tsunami", contains an ice arena for the city hockey events and an aquapark^[10]

City's radio, television, press media

Press

• "Reporter" - Ivano-Frankivsk weekly (www.report.if.ua)
• "Halytsky Korrespondent" - a social-political weekly (gk-press.if.ua)
• "Halychyna" - regional newspaper (www.galychyna.if.ua)

Radio

• "Zakhidny Polyus (104.3 FM)" - city's radio (1043.com.ua)
• "Vezha (107 FM)" - city's radio (www.vezha.org)

Television

• "Ivano-Frankivsk ODTRK" - regional State Tele and Radio Company (odtrk.if.ua)
• "3-Studia" - regional Tele and Radio Company (www.studio3.com.ua)
• "Halychyna" - regional television (www.galtv.if.ua)

Notable people

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Ivano-Frankivsk is twinned with 22 cities and one county:^[13]

Arlington in USA Veliky Novgorod in Russia Baia Mare in Romania [13] Rzeszów in Poland [13][14] Chrzanów in Poland [13] Zielona Góra in Poland [13][15] Serpukhov in Russia [13] Rybnik in Poland (since 12.10.2001) [13][16]

Surgut in Russia [13] Tomaszów Mazowiecki in Poland [13] Brest in Belarus [13][17][18] Nyíregyháza in Hungary [13] Opole in Poland [13][19] Targoviste in Romania [13] Ochota, Warsaw in Poland [13] Oradea in Romania [13]

Trakai in Lithuania [13] Jelgava in Latvia [13] Świdnica in Poland [13] Lublin in Poland [13] Koszalin in Poland [13] Nowa Sól County in Poland [13] Přerov in Czech Republic [13]

Local orientation

	Uhryniv	Uhryniv Kluziv	Vovchynets Pidluzhya
	Zahvizdya		Uhornyky Mykytyntsi
		Ivano-Frankivsk
	Krykhivtsi	Chukalivka Cherniiv	Khryplyn

Regional orientation

	Drohobych	Lviv Lutsk	Ternopil Rivne
	Uzhhorod		Khmelnytskyi Vinnytsia
		Ivano-Frankivsk
	Khust	(Romania)	Chernivtsi

See also

• Dem'ianiv Laz

References

Bibliography

Notes

External links

Subdivisions of Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality Administrative Center: Ivano-Frankivsk City (1) Communes (5) Ivano-Frankivsk Khryplyn · Krykhivtsi · Mykytyntsi · Uhornyky · Vovchynets communes are approximated term for silrada (village council)

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