Tysmenytsia

Tysmenytsia (Ukrainian: Тисмениця; a.k.a. Tysmienica, Tysmenitsa, Tyśmienica ) is a city, the administrative center of the Tysmenytsia Raion (district) in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of western Ukraine. In 1900 as part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Tysmenytsia was in Tłumacz powiat.^[1]

Overview

The city is famous for its fur factory "Tysmenytsia" that was established back in 1891. In the Soviet times the factory was the fourth major factory within the fur industry of the Ukrainian SSR. On March 28, 1982 Tysmenytsia became an administrative center of the former Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. Since then the name of raion was changed correspondingly to its administrative center - Tysmenytsia.

The city is also located in very close vicinity to the administrative center of Prykarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a population 9,600 people according to the Ukrainian Census (2001).

People

• Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox saint was born in Tysmenytsia.
• Kost Levytsky Ukrainian politician
• Henry Roth, Jewish American writer
• Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet, currently lives in Tysmenytsia.

Transport

Tysmenytsya can be reached by train, bus or by plane to Ivano-Frankivsk, which is about 20 minutes by bus from from the city.

Local orientation

Regional orientation

References

See also

• Tysmenytsya Raion (district)

External links

• County of Tyśmienica (English version)
• Tysmienica Yizkor book
• Photographs of Jewish sites in Tysmenytsia in Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina

• MSN Map