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Facts and History
The administrative center of Ivano-Frankivsk Province. The area of the
province - 13,900 sq.km. The area is a part of the ethnographic zone
called Halychyna /Galychyna, Galicia/. Most of the territory is
mountainous. Population of the province - 1,458,000 /over 95% -
Ukrainians/. Population of Ivano-Frankivsk - 246,000. Built on the site
of the village of Zabolottya, in 1662 /during the period of
Polish reign/ it was named Stanislawów. In 1772, as the rest of
Galicia, it came under the power of the Austrian /from 1867 on -
Austro-Hungarian/ Empire. In October 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Empire
collapsed, and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic /ZUNR/ was
proclaimed, but in summer 1919 the western Ukraine and Stanislawów were
annexed by Poland. In September 1939, as the result of the division of
Poland by Berlin and Moscow, the western Ukraine became a part of the
USSR. From 1941 till 1944 - under the Nazi occupation. From 1944 the
western Ukraine together with the rest of Ukraine was a part of the USSR
till August 1991. In 1962 Stanislav was named after the famous Ukrainian
writer, Slav scholar and philosopher - Ivan Franko.
In our district tourists are interested in wonderful Carpathian
mountains /40 minutes of driving from city
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