Ivano-Frankivsk (, ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, is a city in western

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. It serves as the

administrative centre An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgi ...

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna () or simply Frankivshchyna, is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a pop ...

as well as

Ivano-Frankivsk Raion Ivano-Frankivsk Raion () is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Five abolished ra ...

within the oblast. Ivano-Frankivsk also hosts the administration of the

Ivano-Frankivsk urban hromada Ivano-Frankivsk urban territorial hromada () is a hromada located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Ivano-Frankivsk urban hromada has an area of , as well as a population o ...

. Its population is 227,827 (2024 estimate). Built in the mid-17th century as a fortress of the Polish

Potocki family The House of Potocki (; plural: Potoccy, male: Potocki, feminine: Potocka) was a prominent szlachta, Polish noble family in the Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569), Kingdom of Poland and magnates of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Po ...

, Stanisławów was annexed to the

Habsburg Empire The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm (), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities (composite monarchy) that were ruled by the House of Habsburg. From the 18th century it is ...

during the

First Partition of Poland The First Partition of Poland took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that eventually ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The growth of power in the Russian Empire threatened the Kingdom of Prussia an ...

in 1772, after which it became the property of the State within the

Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a Multinational state, multinational European Great Powers, great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the Habsburg monarchy, realms of the Habsburgs. Duri ...

. Throughout this time, it was within the

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia in Eastern Europe. The Cr ...

. The fortress was slowly transformed into one of the most prominent cities at the foothills of the

Carpathian Mountains The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ural Mountains, Urals at and the Scandinav ...

. After

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

, for several months, it served as a temporary capital of the

West Ukrainian People's Republic The West Ukrainian People's Republic (; West Ukrainian People's Republic#Name, see other names) was a short-lived state that controlled most of Eastern Galicia from November 1918 to July 1919. It included major cities of Lviv, Ternopil, Kolom ...

. Following the

Peace of Riga The Treaty of Riga was signed in Riga, Latvia, on between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine on the other, ending the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921). The chief negotiators o ...

in 1921, Stanisławów became part of the

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I ...

. After the

Soviet invasion of Poland The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Second Polish Republic, Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Polan ...

at the onset of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the city was

annexed Annexation, in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory. In current international law, it is generally held to ...

by the Soviet Union, only to be occupied by

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

two years later. With the liberation of Soviet Ukraine in 1944 and the shifting of borders, the city remained part of the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

and was renamed in 1962 after

Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (, ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first d ...

. With the

fall of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of Nationalities, Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. :s: ...

in 1991, the city become part of newly-independent Ukraine. Ivano-Frankivsk is one of the principal cities of the Carpathian Euroregion. There are elements of various cultures intertwined in the city's architecture, including the Polish

city hall In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or municipal hall (in the Philippines) is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city o ...

, the Austro-Hungarian city's business centre, the Soviet prefabricated apartment blocks at the city's

rural–urban fringe Peri-urbanisation relates to the processes of scattered and dispersive urban growth that create hybrid landscapes of fragmented and mixed urban and rural characteristics. Such areas may be referred to as the rural–urban fringe, the outskirts ...

, and others.

Name

The town was founded as a fortress known as ''Stanisławów'' where it was named after the Polish

hetman ''Hetman'' is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders (comparable to a field marshal or imperial marshal in the Holy Roman Empire). First used by the Czechs in Bohemia in the 15th century, ...

Stanisław "Rewera" Potocki Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, Kherson Oblast, a coastal village in Ukraine * Stanislaus County, ...

. Some sources claim it was named after his grandson Stanisław. Following the

in 1772, the name was transliterated as ''Stanislau'' in German, as the city became part of the

, and later

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military ...

; however, after the

Revolutions of 1848 The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the springtime of the peoples or the springtime of nations, were a series of revolutions throughout Europe over the course of more than one year, from 1848 to 1849. It remains the most widespre ...

, the city carried three different linguistic renderings of its name: German, Polish, and Ruthenian (, ; , ; ''Stanislaviv'', , or ''Stanyslaviv'', ). Other spellings used in the local press media included ''Stanislavov'' and . After

it was changed by the

Soviet authorities The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the executive and administrative organ of the highest body of state authority, the All-Union Supreme Soviet. It was formed on 30 December 1922 and abolished on 26 December 199 ...

into a simplified version Stanislav (, ; , ). In 1962, to honor the Ukrainian writer

on the city's 300th anniversary, it was renamed ''Ivano-Frankivsk'' () or ''Ivano-Frankovsk'' (). It is sometimes colloquially called Franyk () by its residents. In several languages two names can be found in 21st century sources: one ending in /ivsk/ and one in /ovsk/. In English the city is "also known as" Ivano-Frankovsk. Poland clarified in 2010 that Iwano-Frankiwsk should be used instead of Iwano-Frankowsk. In Spanish, both formsSpanish Wikipedia: :es:Ivano-Frankovsk are used alternatingly in

La Jornada ''La Jornada'' (''The Working Day'') is one of Mexico City's leading daily newspapers. It was established in 1984 by Carlos Payán Velver. The current editor (''directora general'') is Carmen Lira Saade. As of 2006 it had approximately 287,000 ...

History

The town of Stanisławów was founded as a fortress in order to protect the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (), was a federation, federative real union between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...

from

Tatar invasions These are lists of battles of the Mongol invasion of Europe. Lists of battles Mongol invasions of Eastern Europe Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' (1223, 1237–1241) Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria (1223–1236) * 1223: First Mongol ...

and to defend the multi-ethnic population of the region in case of armed conflicts such as the

Khmelnytsky Uprising The Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack–Polish War, Khmelnytsky insurrection, or the National Liberation War, was a Cossack uprisings, Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Poli ...

of 1648. The fort was originally built next to Zabolotiv village (known since 1435), and Knyahynyn (1449). The village of Zabolotiv and the land around it were purchased by Andrzej Potocki from another Polish nobleman, Rzeczkowski. Stanisławów was issued by Potocki and his declaration establishing the city with

Magdeburg rights Magdeburg rights (, , ; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages gr ...

on 7 May 1662; but the city and its rights, however, were not recognized by the Polish Crown until 14 August 1663, when John Casimir had finally approved it. By 1672, the fortress had been rebuilt from wood to stone, brick, and mortar. Also a new large fortified Potocki palace was erected in the place of an older wood structure. Today this building serves as the

military hospital A military hospital is a hospital owned or operated by a military. They are often reserved for the use of military personnel and their dependents, but in some countries are made available to civilians as well. They may or may not be located on a m ...

. In the same year Jews were granted the right to become permanent residents, who could work, conduct commerce and travel in and out of the city as they pleased. Originally the city was divided into two districts: Tysmenytsia and Halych. Sometime in 1817–1819 the neighbouring village of Zabolottya, that had a special status, was incorporated into the city as a new district, while Tysmenytsia district was divided into Tysmenytsia and Lysets districts. Each district had its main street corresponded with its name: Halych Street (Halych district), Tysmenytsia Street which today is Independence Street (Tysmenytsia district), Zabolotiv Street – Mykhailo Hrushevsky Street and Street of Vasylyanok (Zabolottya district), and Lysets Street – Hetman Mazepa Street (Lysets district). Later the city was split into six small districts: midtown where the rich

Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

population and patricians lived, pidzamche (subcastle), and four suburbs – Zabolotiv, Tysmenytsia, Halych and Lysets where the

plebeian In ancient Rome, the plebeians or plebs were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words "commoners". Both classes were hereditary. Etymology The precise origins of the gro ...

s lived.Brief History of Ivano-Frankivsk
Stanislau 1891 Ivano-Frankivsk

In October 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed and the

Western Ukrainian People's Republic The West Ukrainian People's Republic (; West Ukrainian People's Republic#Name, see other names) was a short-lived state that controlled most of Eastern Galicia from November 1918 to July 1919. It included major cities of Lviv, Ternopil, Kolom ...

(ZUNR) was proclaimed. In the early months of 1919 (from January to May) the city became a temporary capital of the West Ukrainian National Republic, while still recovering from

. All state affairs took place in the building of ''Dnister Hotel'' where the Act Zluky (Unification Act) was composed and signed on 22 January 1919 by the

Ukrainian People's Republic The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) was a short-lived state in Eastern Europe. Prior to its proclamation, the Central Council of Ukraine was elected in March 1917 Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, as a result of the February Revolution, ...

.Yanukovych condemns attempts to undermine unity

Kyiv Post The ''Kyiv Post'' is Ukraine’s first and most prominent English-language newspaper. It was founded in 1995 in Kyiv by American businessman Jed Sunden. In 2018, the publication was acquired by prominent Ukrainian businessman Adnan Kivan, foun ...

(21 January 2011) The same year it was subjected to the Polish–Ukrainian and the Romanian-Ukrainian skirmishes eventually being annexed by Poland as part of the

as the centre of the

Stanisławów Voivodeship Stanisławów Voivodeship () was an administrative district of the interwar Poland (1920–1939). It was established in December 1920 with an administrative center in Stanisławów. The voivodeship had an area of 16,900 km2 and comprised twe ...

. It was occupied by the

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n army for the summer months from 25 May to 21 August 1919. During the

Polish–Soviet War The Polish–Soviet War (14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, following World War I and the Russian Revolution. After the collapse ...

in 1920, the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

took over the city for a brief period. After the Soviet retreat, Ukrainian troops loyal to Symon Petlura occupied the city for a few days. At this period of history the city was in complete disorder. It then became part of Poland until the start of World War II. In the 1939

invasion of Poland The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Second Polish Republic, Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak R ...

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

and Soviet forces, the territory was captured by the

Soviets The Soviet people () were the citizens and nationals of the Soviet Union. This demonym was presented in the ideology of the country as the "new historical unity of peoples of different nationalities" (). Nationality policy in the Soviet Union ...

in September 1939 and annexed to the

. Between September 1939 and June 1941, the Soviet regime ordered thousands of inhabitants of the city to leave their houses and move to

Siberia Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states ...

, where most of them perished. Numerous people were taken out of the city prison and simply shot outside of the city when Soviet forces were leaving it in 1941. Ivano-Frankivsk was occupied by German forces from 2 July 1941 to 27 July 1944. There were more than 40,000 Jews in Stanisławów when it was occupied by the Nazis on 26 July 1941. The

Stanisławów Ghetto Stanisławów Ghetto (, ) was a ghetto established in 1941 by Nazi Germany in Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk) in German occupied Poland (today Ukraine). After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the town was incorporated into Distr ...

was formed. During the occupation (1941–44), more than 600 educated Poles and most of the city's Jewish population were murdered.yadvashem.org
/ref> In early 1944, the city became part of the Soviet Union and was again renamed ''Stanislav''. The Soviets forced most of the Polish population to leave the city, where most of them settled in the

Recovered Territories The Recovered Territories or Regained Lands () are the lands east of the Oder–Neisse line, Oder-Neisse line that over the centuries were gradually lost by Poland and colonized by the Germans, and that returned to Poland after World War II. T ...

. In 1962, the city was renamed ''Ivano-Frankivsk'' after the Ukrainian writer

. During the post-war period, the city was part of the

Carpathian Military District The Red Banner Carpathian Military District (, ) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces during the Cold War and subsequently of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the early Post-Soviet period. It was established on 3 May 1946 on the ...

housing the 38th Army (70th Motor Rifle Division) that participated in

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four fellow Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and the Hungarian People's Republic. The ...

. Until 18 July 2020, Ivano-Frankivsk was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the center of

Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality is a former administrative subdivision of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast located within the Tysmenytsia Raion and completely surrounded by that raion. It consisted of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, the administrative center of ...

. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six. The area of Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality was merged into the newly established Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. Since the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the city is often bombed by Russian forces. On 24 February and 11 March 2022, Ivano-Frankivsk was struck by Russian missiles during the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

Timeline

* 1650–1662: establishing a private fortress of Potocki * 1662–1772: Stanisławów,

(within the

Kingdom of Poland The Kingdom of Poland (; Latin: ''Regnum Poloniae'') was a monarchy in Central Europe during the Middle Ages, medieval period from 1025 until 1385. Background The West Slavs, West Slavic tribe of Polans (western), Polans who lived in what i ...

), * 1772–1815: Stanisławów (Stanislau),

Austrian Monarchy The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm (), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ( composite monarchy) that were ruled by the House of Habsburg. From the 18th century it ...

(within the

), * 1815–1918: Stanisławów (Stanislau),

, then

, * November 1918 – May 1919: Stanyslaviv,

, * May 1919 – September 1939: Stanisławów,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

, seat of the

, * October 1939 – June 1941: Stanyslaviv,

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

, * July 1941 – August 1944: Stanisławów (Stanislau), seat of the ''Stanislau Kreis'',

District of Galicia The District of Galicia (, , ) was a World War II administrative unit of the General Government created by Nazi Germany on 1 August 1941 after the start of Operation Barbarossa, based loosely within the borders of the ancient Principality o ...

General Government The General Government (, ; ; ), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovak Republic (1939–1945), Slovakia and the Soviet ...

, * August 1944 – 9 November 1962: Stanislav, * 9 November 1962: renamed as Ivano-Frankivsk, oblast seat,

, * 1991–present: Ivano-Frankivsk, independent

Geography

The city is situated in the

Carpathian The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at ...

region northeast of the mountain range, sitting approximately

above mean sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level ...

. One of the several main geographical features is the Vovchynets Hill also known as the Vovchynets Mountains. The hill reaches 300- above sea level and is part of the Pokuttya Highland (

Upland Upland or Uplands may refer to: Geography *Hill, an area of higher land, generally *Highland, an area of higher land divided into low and high points *Upland and lowland, conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level *I ...

). Around the hill Bystrytsia River branches into Bystrytsia of Nadvirna, Bystrytsia of Solotvyn, and Vorona. The last two rivers serve as a natural border between the ''Pokuttya Highland'' and ''Stanislav Basin''. The Vovchynets Hill is located just outside and northeast of Ivano-Frankivsk. Located southeast from the Stanislav Basin in the direction of the

Prut The Prut (also spelled in English as Pruth; , ) is a river in Eastern Europe. It is a left tributary of the Danube, and is long. Part of its course forms Romania's border with Moldova and Ukraine. Characteristics The Prut originates on the eas ...

Valley is the Khorosnen (Prut-Bystrytsia) Highland. The highest point of that highland is Mount Hostra, . The closest neighboring city is Tysmenytsia, less than to the east. Other cities that lie in the radius of are

Tlumach Tlumach (, ; ; ), also referred to as Tovmach (), is a small city in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Tlumach urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: In 2001, its ...

(east),

Nadvirna Nadvirna (, ; ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Nadvirna Raion. Nadvirna hosts the administration of Nadvirna urban hromada, one of the hromadas ...

(south), Kalush (west), and

Halych Halych (, ; ; ; ; , ''Halitsch'' or ''Galitsch''; ) is a historic List of cities in Ukraine, city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The city gave its name to the Principality of Halych, the historic province of Galicia (Eastern Europe), ...

(north). The city also administers five adjacent villages that surround it: Mykytyntsi, Krykhivtsi, Vovchynets, Uhornyky, and Khryplyn.

Climate

As is the case with most of Ukraine, the climate is moderate

continental Continental may refer to: Places * Continental, Arizona, a small community in Pima County, Arizona, US * Continental, Ohio, a small town in Putnam County, US Arts and entertainment * ''Continental'' (album), an album by Saint Etienne * Continen ...

with warm summers, and fairly cold winters. The following climate data provided is for the past 62 years. The average number of days with precipitation is 170 spread almost equally throughout a year. Most precipitation takes place during the winter months and least in early autumn. 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. Franyk

Demographics

Note: Historical population record is taken out of Ivano-Frankivsk portal, more recent – the Regional Directorate of Statistics. There is also other information on a population growth such as the

JewishGen JewishGen is a non-profit organization founded in 1987 as an international electronic resource for Jewish genealogy. In 2003, JewishGen became an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York ...

. With asterisk there are identified years of approximate data. In the 18th century, differentiation among Poles and Ukrainians was by religious background rather than ethnic (Catholics vs. Orthodox).

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census: According to a survey conducted by the

International Republican Institute The International Republican Institute (IRI) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1983 and funded and supported by the United States federal government. Most of its board is drawn from the Republican Party. Its public mission is to a ...

in April–May 2023, 97% of the city's population spoke Ukrainian at home, and 3% spoke Russian. Ivano-Frankivsk Sichovyh Striltsiv 12-1

Administration

Both city and oblast administrations as well as the regional council are all located in a massive white building on Hrushevsky Street locally known as Bily Dim or Bily Budynok. In front of the building, there 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, there is 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 A stele ( ) or stela ( )The plural in English is sometimes stelai ( ) based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ ( ) based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles ( ) or stela ...

, both sides of which are adorned with statues: '' kamenyar'' (west) and ''

kobzar A ''kobzar'' ( ; ) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed kobza or bandura. Tradition The professional kobzar tradition was established during the Hetmanate Era around the sixteenth cen ...

'' (east).

City Council

The city council currently consists of 42 deputies. The

political representation Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy-making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens according to Hanna Pitkin's ''Concept of Representation'' (1967). This definition ...

after the

2020 Ukrainian local elections The 2020 Ukrainian local elections took place on Sunday 25 October 2020.Ukrai ...

by political blocs was elected as such: 28 seats for

Svoboda Svoboda () means "freedom" in various Slavic languages. It may refer to: People * Svoboda (surname) Organizations Media * Radio Svoboda, operated by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty * ''Svoboda'' (newspaper), a daily Ukrainian language newspa ...

, 10 seats for

European Solidarity European Solidarity (, ; , YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko. The party with its the ...

and 4 seats for Batkivschyna.How the composition of the Ivano-Frankivsk council has changed

Civil movement "Chesno" Chesno () is a Ukrainian public campaign that emerged late 2011 to advance a fair election process. It is widely known for its critical analysis and evaluation of politicians and the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) in Ukraine. The organization provi ...

(6 November 2020)

Recent city mayors

* Bohdan Borovych ( OUN) July 1994 – June 1998 * Zinoviy Shkutiak ( Our Ukraine) March 1998 – 26 March 2006 * Viktor Anuškevičius ( UPP) 26 March 2006 – 2015 * ( All-Ukrainian Union «Svoboda») 2015–2023 * ( All-Ukrainian Union «Svoboda») 2023–present In the (first round of the) 2020 Ukrainian local elections Martsinkiv was reelected with about 85% of the vote.Mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk Martsinkiv on the success of the OPZZ in the east: this was expected and this is a problem of pro-Ukrainian forces

Hromadske.TV hromadske (; lit. ''Public'') is an independent online media in Ukraine. The station was announced in June 2013 by 15 journalists, before commencing operations on 22 November 2013. It is registered as an NGO.Mayors of Mykolayiv, Ivano-Frankivsk become known after elections

Ukrinform The National News Agency of Ukraine (), or Ukrinform (), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of IndependenceIndependence Street (vulytsia Nezalezhnosti) / Tysmenytsia Road (doroha Tysmenetska) * Halych Road (vulytsia Halytska) * Hetman Mazepa Street (vulytsia Hetmana Mazepy) / Krykhivtsi Road (doroha Krykhivetska) * Yevhen Konovalets Road (vulytsia Yevhena Konovaltsia) * Vovchynets Street (vulytsia Vovchynetska) * Vasyl Stefanyk Shore Drive (naberezhna Vasylia Stefanyka)

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 A market square (also known as a market place) is an urban square meant for trading, in which a market is held. It is an important feature of many towns and cities around the world. A market square is an open area where market stalls are tradit ...

* Sheptytskyi Square * Pryvokzalna Square * Mickiewicz Square (Mickiewicz Park) * Liberation Square * European Square

Rural-urban fringe districts

Like a lot of regional centers in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union, Ivano-Frankivsk is well known for its

rural-urban fringe Peri-urbanisation relates to the processes of scattered and dispersive urban growth that create hybrid landscapes of fragmented and mixed urban and rural characteristics. Such areas may be referred to as the rural–urban fringe, the outskirts ...

panel building Panel may refer to: Arts and media Visual arts * Panel painting, in art, a painting on a wood panel (as opposed to canvas, a wall etc) * Panel (comics), a single image in a comic book, comic strip or cartoon; also, a comic strip containing on ...

residential districts, too. * BAM * Kaskad * Positron * Budivelnykiv

Transport

; Public transportation The city of Ivano-Frankivsk has an extensive network of public transport including buses,

trolleybus A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...

es, and taxis. There are nine trolleybus routes and about 52 for regular buses. Some of the routes run beyond the city into nearby villages. Ivano-Frankivsk map

; Railway transportation The city is served by the Ivano-Frankivsk railway station. There are also smaller railway stations in adjacent villages, including Uhryniv and Khryplyn. All of them are part of

Lviv Railways Lviv Railways (abbreviated as LR) () is a territorial branch company of Ukrzaliznytsia headquartered in Lviv. General description Lviv Railways administers all railroads of Lviv Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Chernivtsi Obl ...

. ; 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 began on a new bus terminal next to the railway terminus on Zaliznychna Street. Inauguration of the new bus terminal took place on 22 May 2010. At the opening ceremony the Mayor of the city, Viktor Anushkevičius, 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. ; Airways transportation The city is served by

Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian Міжнародний аеропорт Івано-Франківськ) is an airport in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, some 4.4 km (2.7 mi) by road from the town center. ...

, which was granted international status in 1992. The airport shares its facilities with the 114 Brigade of the

Ukrainian Air Force The Ukrainian Air Force (, PS ZSU) is the air force of Ukraine and one of the eight Military branch, branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU). Its current form was created in 2004 by merging the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces into the Air Fo ...

. Since 2002, the airport has been leased to the private enterprise company Yavson, and from 2005 the

Public limited company A public limited company (legally abbreviated to PLC or plc) is a type of public company under United Kingdom company law, some Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth jurisdictions, and Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is a limited liability co ...

Naftokhimik Prykarpattia, a (

subsidiary A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidia ...

Ukrnafta Public JSC Ukrnafta () is a Ukrainian oil and natural gas extracting company, the largest producer of oil and gas in the country. Ukrnafta is also an operator of a gas filling station network in Ukraine nationwide. In 2006, the company conducted ...

). The contract with Naftokhimik Prykarpattia expired in 2013. ; Lodging There are many lodging options in Ivano-Frankivsk. Ivano-Frankivsk has one four-star hotel ("Park Hotel") and three three-star hotels ("Nadia", "Auscoprut", "Pid Templem").

Routes

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

Education

The city has over 25 public schools of general education for grades 1 through 11, including the Ukrainian gymnasium No. 1. There are also some privately owned schools and lyceums. In addition, the city has several professional public institutes. There are also numerous

sports school A sports school () is a type of educational institution for children that originated in the Soviet Union. Sports schools were the basis of the powerful system of physical culture (fitness) and sports education in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, pa ...

s: Fitness Sport Association "Ukraine" – 5 schools, MVK – 3 schools, Fitness Sport Association "Spartak" – 2 schools, Fitness Sport Association "Kolos" – 1 school, and the others.

Universities

The city has six universities, the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Management that is a local campus of Ternopil National Economic University, and the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Management and Economics "Halytska Akademia". All of which are state funded. # Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University # Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas (University of Oil and Gas) #

Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University The Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University () is a Public university, state-sponsored university of higher education in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. The university is an accredited Higher education institution and provides medical education ...

# King Daniel of Galicia Ivano-Frankivsk University of Law # Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Academy of Greek-Catholic Church #

West Ukrainian University of Economics and Law West Ukrainian University of Economics and Law is a Ukrainian University in Ivano-Frankivsk. History The university started its activities in Bukovina in 1991 as a Ukrainian Free Institute of Management and Business (UVIMB). From 1995 as Czernow ...

Culture and sports

Architecture

* Remains of the Stanislaviv fortress compound built in the 17th century * Collegiate Church of Virgin Mary, today the Regional Art Museum, built in the late 17th and the early 18th century in Baroque style *

Greek Catholic Greek Catholic Church or Byzantine-Catholic Church may refer to: * The Catholic Church in Greece * The Eastern Catholic Churches The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Ea ...

Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection, originally Jesuite church built 1752-1761 in Baroque style * Armenian church (presently used by one of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches), built 1743-1763 in Baroque style * Potocki Palace - originally built 1672-1682 and rebuilt as a military hospital in 1809; since 2024 it houses the museum "City and Weapons" * Former Austrian Railway Directorate, today the

, built 1894 by Ernest Bowdish * Tempel Synagogue, built 1895-1899 by Wilhelm Stiassny * Ivano-Frankivsk railway station, originally built in 1866 and rebuilt 1903-1906 by Ernst Baudisch * Hartenberg Passage, built in 1904 by Karel Boblik * Former ''Austria'' hotel at 12 Sichovyh Striltsiv Street (1913) * Church of St. Joseph, built 1911-1913 by Felicjan Bajan * Modernist town hall, today a local history museum, built 1928-1935 by Stanisław Trela * Modernist post office at 13a Sichovyh Striltsiv Street, built 1937-1939 by

Bohdan Lachert Bohdan Lachert (13 June 1900 – 8 January 1987) was a Polish architect, member of Praesens group. He collaborated with fellow Polish architect Józef Szanajca to design numerous buildings, including modern villas in Saska Kępa – drawing in ...

* Ivan-Franko National Academic Drama Theater - post-war modernism * City Brewery File:26-101-0475 Фортечна стіна, прв. Фортечний IMG 0251.jpg, Remains of the Stanislaviv fortress on Fortechnyi Ln File:Ратуша в Івано-Франківську.jpg, Rynok Square with the

town hall In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or municipal hall (in the Philippines) is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city o ...

File:Колегіальний костел (Івано-Франківськ).jpg, Collegiate Church of Virgin Mary File:Cathedral in Ivano-Frankivsk.jpg, Resurrection Cathedral File:Armenian Cathedral in Ivano-Frankivsk.JPG, Armenian Church File:Лікарняний корпус колишнього шпиталю.jpg, Former Potocki Palace File:Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University.jpg, Former Austrian Railway Directorate, today the

File:Ivano-Frankivsk train station.jpg, Ivano-Frankivsk railway station File:Ivano-Frankivsk-Nezalezhnosti 3-13.jpg, Hartenberg Passage File:Ivano-Frankivsk Sichovyh Striltsiv 12-3.jpg, Former ''Austria'' hotel at 12 Sichovyh Striltsiv Street File:Костел Йосифа (мур.) Івано-Франківськ вул. М. Мочульського, 1.JPG, Church of St. Joseph

Other attractions

with the city's old town hall, today hosting an ethno-cultural museum. * Shevchenko Park, a big park that consists of an

amusement park An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, and events for entertainment purposes. A theme park is a type of amusement park that bases its structures and attractions around a central theme, often fea ...

, a big lake with swans, couple of full-size football fields, and many other interesting places which are worth a visit. * 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

. In front of the building, there are two full-size sculptural monuments to Franko and Shevchenko. * Bazaar, a huge area that covers the old market and the new market with a couple of supermarket stores locally known as the universal stores. * stretch (stometrivka), unofficial local name for a part of Independence Street that consists of numerous shops and is restricted to pedestrian traffic only.

Monuments

* Battle of Grunwald monument – commemorating the victory of the

on Grunwald fields in 1410. * Monument to

Adam Mickiewicz Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely influenced Ukra ...

(1930) – it was reconstructed in 1989, located in Adam Mickiewicz Square next to a regional concert (philharmonic) hall. It is the oldest surviving monument in the city and was built on 20 November 1898 (sculptor Tadeusz Błotnicki). * Monument to Stepan Bandera and Museum of the Insurgent Army in European Square were awarded the best architectural project of 2007 designed by a local architecture company "Atelie Arkhitektury"

Theaters and Cinemas

* Ivan Franko Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater * Mariika Pidhirianka Academic Regional Puppet Theater * Ivan Tobilevich Ukrainian National Theater * Regional Philharmonic Society * Lumiere Movie Theater (previously, Ivan Franko Movie Theater) * Cosmos Movie Theater ; Former * Patriot Movie Theater * Shevchenko Movie Theater (previously "Pioneer") * "Videotech" * Gorky Movie Theater * Komsomolets Movie Theater * Shevchenko Movie Theater (original) * Trembita, a summer movie theater

City parks

* Shevchenko Park * Park of Warriors-Internationalists * Park "Valy" * Pryvokzalny park * Memorial Park, near Ivan Franko Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater Modern building Ivano-Frankivsk

Festivals

* «Sviato Kovaliv» ( Blacksmiths festival) * «Karpatskyi Prostir» (Carpathian Space) * «Koliada na Maizliakh» Christmas Festival * «Prykarpattia Honey Fest» * «Holiday of Grapes and Wine» * «Stanislavska Marmuliada»

Sports

Frankiwsk Miczkiewicza 2 Sokil IMG 0033 26-101-0275

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

FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk was a Ukrainian football team based in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, the unofficial capital of the Prykarpattia region. History The club was founded in 1940 after the Soviet occupation of the Easte ...

(Prykarpattya) that participated on the national level since the 1950s. Since 2007, the club only fields its youth team Spartak-93 and competes in the Children-Youth Football League of Ukraine. The former president of Spartak Anatoliy Revutskiy reorganized the local university ( University of Oil and Gas) team in 2007 into the new " FSK Prykarpattia" with support of the city mayor Anushkevychus 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 based on the local Polish garrison and called

Rewera Stanisławów WCKS Rewera Stanisławów was a Polish football team, located in Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk), in the historic territory of Galicia. History The club's hues were red and blue, same as the hues of one of the most popular Polish teams, Pog ...

(1908). That club competed at a regional level that had evolved at that period. With the start of 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 the 1970s. The city also is the home to a

futsal Futsal is a variant of association football played between two teams of five players each on a court smaller than a football pitch. Its rules are based on the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game of association football, and i ...

team, PFC Uragan Ivano-Frankivsk, that competes in the Ukrainian Futsal Championship. They were the Ukrainian champions having won the 2010/11 season playoffs and therefore took part in the

2011–12 UEFA Futsal Cup The 2011–12 UEFA Futsal Cup was the 26th edition of Europe's premier club futsal tournament and the 11th edition under the current UEFA Futsal Cup format. Teams th Title Holder Preliminary round The draw for the preliminary round and the main ...

for the first time. The city had an ice hockey team, HC Vatra Ivano-Frankivsk, which previously played in the

Ukrainian Hockey Championship The Ukrainian Hockey Championship (, '' tr: Chempionat Ukrayiny z Khokeyu'') is an annual ice hockey award and national title, bestowed to the ice hockey organization judged to have the best performing team in Ukraine, founded in 1992. Prior to t ...

. Ivano-Frankivsk is also the hometown of Ukrainian gymnasts; one of them is

Dariya Zgoba Dariya Yaroslavivna Zgoba ( born 7 November 1989) is a Ukrainian retired artistic gymnast. She is the 2007 European champion and the 2005 and 2008 European bronze medalist on the uneven bars. She is the 2007 Summer Universiade uneven bars cham ...

who won gold on the uneven bars in the 2007 European Championships and became a finalist on the Beijing Olympics; the other one is Yana Demyanchuk, who won gold on the

balance beam The balance beam is a rectangular artistic gymnastics apparatus and an event performed using the apparatus. The apparatus and the event are sometimes simply called "beam". The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is BB. The bal ...

at the 2009 European Championships. Other clubs include: * Hoverla Ivano-Frankivsk (basketball) * Roland Ivano-Frankivsk (rugby) * Uragan (futsal) ; Main Stadiums and Sport Complexes *

MCS Rukh Municipal Central Stadium "Rukh" () is the multi-purpose central stadium of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. The stadium is located at 128 Vyacheslav Chernovol Street, the city of Ivano-Frankivsk 750447. It has a capacity of 15,000 spectators and 6,20 ...

, 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), which belongs to Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University * Stadium of Oil and Gas University * Sport-Recreational Center "Tsunami", which contains an ice arena for the local hockey events and a

waterpark A water park (also waterpark, water world, or aquapark) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimmin ...

City's radio, television, press media

; Press * ''"Reporter"'' – Ivano-Frankivsk weekly * ''"Halytskyi Korespondent"'' – a social-political weekly * ''"Halychyna"'' – regional newspaper ; Radio * ''"Zakhidnyi Polius (104.3 FM)"'' – city's radio * ''"Vezha (107 FM)"'' – city's radio ; Television * ''"Ivano-Frankivsk ODTRK"'' – regional state broadcasting company * ''"3-Studia"'' – regional broadcasting company * ''"Halychyna"'' – regional television * "Canal 402" - regional television

Notable people

* Eliezer Adler (1866–1949), founder of the Jewish Community in Gateshead, England *

Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to s ...

(born 1948), Belarusian journalist and writer, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature * Yuri Andrukhovych (born 1960), Ukrainian writer *

Daniel Auster Daniel Auster OBE (; 7 May 1893 – 15 January 1963) was Mayor of Jerusalem in the final years of Mandatory Palestine, the first Jewish mayor of the city, and the first mayor of Jerusalem after Israeli independence. Biography Daniel Auster was ...

(1893–1963), Mayor of Jerusalem * Menachem Avidom (1908–1995), Israeli composer *

John Banner John Banner (born Johann Banner, January 28, 1910 – January 28, 1973) was an Austrian-born American actor, best known for his role as Sergeant Schultz in the situation comedy ''Hogan's Heroes'' (1965–1971). Schultz, constantly encou ...

(1910–1973), Austrian-American actor. Star of ''

Hogan's Heroes ''Hogan's Heroes'' is an American television sitcom created by Bernard Fein and Albert S. Ruddy which is set in a Prisoner-of-war camp, prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Nazi Germany during World War II, and centers around a group of Allied prisoner ...

'' * Naftali Blumenthal (1922-2022), Israeli Member of the

Knesset The Knesset ( , ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Israel. The Knesset passes all laws, elects the President of Israel, president and Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister, approves the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet, and supe ...

* Maxim Bugzester (1909–1978), Polish painter *

Arthur F. Burns Arthur Frank Burns (April 27, 1904 – June 26, 1987) was an American economist and diplomat who served as the 10th chair of the Federal Reserve, chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978. He previously chaired the Council of Economic Ad ...

(1904–1987), American-Jewish economist and politician * Yaroslav Huzar (1897–1963), Ukrainian public figure, father of Liubomyr Huzar * Ana Casares (1930–2007), Polish-Argentine actress *

Zbigniew Cybulski Zbigniew Hubert Cybulski (; 3 November 1927 – 8 January 1967) was a Polish film and theatre actor, one of the best-known and most popular personalities of the post-World War II history of Poland. He is known for portraying young rebels i ...

(1927–1967), Polish actor *

Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski Bolesław Ignacy Florian Wieniawa-Długoszowski (22 July 1881 – 1 July 1942) was a Polish general, adjutant to Chief of State Józef Piłsudski, politician, freemason, diplomat, poet, artist and formally for one day the President of the Republi ...

(1881–1942), Polish general, politician and diplomat * Albin Dunajewski (1817-1894), Roman Catholic cardinal * Wiktor Eckhaus (1930–2000), Polish–Dutch mathematician * Feliks Falk (born 1941), Polish film director * Moshe Flimann (1905–1973), Mayor of Haifa *

Fritz Grossmann Fritz Grossmann (26 June 1902–16 November 1984) was an Austrian-British art historian. Biography Fritz Grossmann was born 26 June 1902 in Stanislau, then Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine. He was the son ...

(1902–1984), art historian and Professor of Art History * Ludwik Hass (1918–2008), Polish historian * Moses Horowitz (1844–1910), playwright and actor of Yiddish theatre * Alfred Johann Theophil Jansa von Tannenau (1884–1963), Austrian general *

GreenJolly GreenJolly (, ''Gryndzholy'') was a Ukrainian hip hop duo. They represented Ukraine at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Razom nas bahato", which became an unofficial anthem of the Ukrainian Orange Revolution. History GreenJo ...

(active 2004–2005), Ukrainian rap band *

Tina Karol Tetiana Hryhorivna Liberman (born 25 January 1985), better known by her stage name Tina Karol, is a Ukrainian singer and founder of the Tina Karol Charitable Foundation, Tina Karol charitable foundation. In 2006, she was chosen to represent Uk ...

(born 1985), Ukrainian singer, actress, and television presenter * Orest-Vasyl Kuziv (born 1997), Ukrainian artist * Maria Antonina Kratochwil (1881–1942), nun beatified by Pope John Paul II who tried to save Jews during

the Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

* František Kriegel (1908—1979), Czechoslovak politician and physician * Manfred H. Lachs (1914–1993), Polish diplomat and British jurist *

Oksana Lada Oksana Lada (; born March 3, 1976) is a Ukrainian actress, best known for the role of Irina Peltsin, the Mistress (lover), mistress of Tony Soprano, in the HBO series ''The Sopranos''. Early life and education Lada was born in Ivano-Frankivsk ...

(born 1976), Ukrainian actress * Chaim David Lippe (1823–1900), Austrian Jewish publisher and bibliographer * Alfreda Markowska (born 1926), Polish-Romani woman who during World War II saved approximately 50 Jewish and Roma children from death in the

Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

and the

Porajmos The Romani Holocaust was the genocide of European Roma and Sinti people during World War II. Beginning in 1933, Nazi Germany systematically persecuted the European Roma, Sinti and other peoples pejoratively labeled 'Gypsy' through forcible ...

genocide * Leo Aryeh Mayer (1895–1959), Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem *

Bernard Mond Bernard Stanisław Mond (Spanier) (November 14, 1887 in Stanisławów – July 5, 1957 in Kraków) was a Polish general of Jewish descent in the interwar period. He fought in the First World War, Polish–Ukrainian War, Polish–Soviet War and S ...

(1887–1957), Jewish general of the Polish Army *

Itzhak Nener Itzhak Nener (; born Yitzhak Nener; 22 August 1919 - 27 April 2012) was an Israeli jurist who co-founded the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and served as vice-president of Liberal International. Early life and educatio ...

(1919–2012), Israeli jurist * Yevhen Nakonechny (1931–2006), Ukrainian historian, librarian, library scientist, and linguist *

Daniel Passent Daniel Passent (28 April 1938 – 14 February 2022) was a Polish journalist and writer. He was the author of the ''En passant'' blog, which was appearing as a column in a Polish weekly ''Polityka''. Biography Passent was born in Stanisławów, ...

(1938–2022), Polish journalist * Anastasiya Petryshak (born 1994), Ukrainian violinist *

Józef Potocki Józef Potocki (; 1673 – 19 May 1751) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), magnate, Great Hetman of the Crown. Early life Potocki was born in Stanisławów in 1673. He was a son of Andrzej Potocki and Anna Rysińska. Career Józef was consid ...

(1673–1751), Polish nobleman, son of the Polish founder of the city * Mikhail Prusak (born 1960), Russian politician * Bohdan Rozvadovskyi (born 2004), better known by his stage name SadSvit, Ukrainian post punk singer * Horacy Safrin (1899–1980), Polish poet, comedian, author, and translator *

Max Schur Max Schur (26 September 1897 – 12 October 1969) was a physician and friend of Sigmund Freud. He assisted Freud in euthanasia. Ernest Jones considered that "Schur was a perfect choice for a doctor... his considerateness, his untiring patience, ...

(1897–1969), physician * Anna Seniuk (born 1942), Polish actress * Tryzuby Stas (1948–2007), Ukrainian singer and writer of humorous songs, bard *

Klemens Stefan Sielecki Klemens Stefan Sielecki (December 8, 1903 in Stanisławów, Austria-Hungary – July 14, 1980 in Kamień Pomorski, Poland) was a Polish engineer and technical director of the first Polish Locomotive Factory Fablok in Chrzanów in the post-war y ...

(1903–1980), Polish engineer and technical director of

Fablok Fablok is a Polish manufacturer of locomotives, based in Chrzanów. Until 1947 the official name was ''First Factory of Locomotives in Poland Ltd.'' (), Fablok being a widely used syllabic abbreviation of ''Fabryka Lokomotyw'', among others as th ...

Stanisław Sosabowski Stanisław Franciszek Sosabowski (; 8 May 1892 – 25 September 1967) was a Polish general in World War II. He fought in the Polish Campaign of 1939 and at the Battle of Arnhem (Netherlands), as a part of Operation Market Garden, in 1944 as c ...

(1892–1967), Polish general, hero of Arnhem * Mordechai Surkis (1908–1995), Israeli politician * Gabriel Talphir (1901–1990), Israeli poet, art critic, publisher, editor, and translator * Vasyl Velychkovsky (1903–1973), bishop of

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is a Major archiepiscopal church, major archiepiscopal ''sui iuris'' ("autonomous") Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic church that is based in Ukraine. As a particular church of the Cathol ...

* Taras Voznyak (born 1957), Ukrainian political scientist, editor-in-chief and founder of Independent Cultural Journal * Alexander Wagner (1868–1942), Polish chess theoretician * Ksenia Zsikhotska (born 1989), Ukrainian dancer * Nadia Parfan (born 1986), Ukrainian film director and creative producer

Sport

* Yana Demyanchuk (born 1993), Ukrainian gymnast and 2009 European Champion on balance beam * Myroslav Stupar (born 1941), Ukrainian football referee * Vasyl Virastyuk (born 1974), Ukrainian strongman athlete 2004

World's Strongest Man The World's Strongest Man is an international strongman competition held every year. Organized by American event management company IMG, a subsidiary of Endeavor, it is broadcast in the US during summers and in the UK around the end of Decemb ...

Twin towns – sister cities

Ivano-Frankivsk is twinned with: *

Arlington County Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C., the nati ...

, United States (2009) *

Braga Braga (; ) is a cities of Portugal, city and a Municipalities of Portugal, municipality, capital of the northwestern Portugal, Portuguese Braga (district), district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province. Braga Municipality ...

, Portugal (2017) * Brest, Belarus *

Chrzanów Chrzanów () is a town in southern Poland with 35,651 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (since 1999) and is the seat of Chrzanów County. History History to 1809 It is impossible to establish ...

, Poland (2001) *

Chrzanów County __NOTOC__ Chrzanów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1 ...

, Poland (2016) *

Jelgava Jelgava () is a state city in central Latvia. It is located about southwest of Riga. It is the largest town in the Semigallia region of Latvia. Jelgava was the capital of the united Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1578–1795) and was the ad ...

, Latvia (2007) *

Koszalin Koszalin (; ; , ) is a city in northwestern Poland, in Western Pomerania. It is located south of the Baltic Sea coast, and intersected by the river Dzierżęcinka. Koszalin is also a county-status city and capital of Koszalin County of West Pomera ...

, Poland (2010) *

Lublin Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...

, Poland (2009) *

Nanning Nanning; is the capital of the Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in South China, southern China. It is known as the "Green City (绿城) " because of its abundance of lush subtropical foliage. Located in the South of Guangxi, Nanning ...

, China (2019) *

Nowa Sól County __NOTOC__ Nowa Sól County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its ...

, Poland (2010) * Ochota (Warsaw), Poland (2006) *

Opole Opole (; ; ; ) is a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River and the historical capital of Upper Silesia. With a population of approximately 127,387 as of the 2021 census, it is the capital of Opole Voivodeship (province) and the seat of ...

, Poland (2005) *

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and largest city of the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the Havel, River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

, Germany (2023) *

Přerov Přerov (; ) is a city in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 41,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Bečva River. In the past it was a major crossroad in the heart of Moravia in the Czech Republic. The historic city centre is we ...

, Czech Republic (2010) *

Diyarbakır Diyarbakır is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, it is ...

,Turkey (2023) *

Rustavi Rustavi ( ka, რუსთავი ) is a city in the southeast of Georgia, in the region of Kvemo Kartli and southeast of capital Tbilisi. It has a population of 127,154 (January 2024), making it the third most populous city in Georgia. Its eco ...

, Georgia (2016) *

Rybnik Rybnik (Polish pronunciation: ; ) is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (11 mi) from the Czech Republic, Czech border. It i ...

, Poland (2001) *

Rzeszów Rzeszów ( , ) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów is the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and the county seat, seat of Rzeszów C ...

, Poland (2000) *

Strășeni District Strășeni () is an administrative district () in the central part of Moldova. Its administrative center and leading city is Strășeni. As of 1 January 2011, its population was 91,100. The other principal town is Bucovăț, to the north o ...

, Moldova (2016) *

Świdnica Świdnica (; ; ) is a city on the Bystrzyca (Oder), Bystrzyca River in south-western Poland in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. As of 2021, it has a population of 55,413 inhabitants. It is the seat of Świdnica County, and also of the smaller dis ...

, Poland (2008) *

Tomaszów Mazowiecki Tomaszów Mazowiecki (, or ''Tomashuv'') is a city in central Poland with 60,529 inhabitants (2021). It is the fourth most populous city in the Łódź Voivodeship and the second with free public transport. It is the seat of Tomaszów County, Ł ...

, Poland (2004) *

Trakai Trakai (; see Trakai#Names and etymology, names section for alternative and historic names) is a city and lake resort in Lithuania. It lies west of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania or just from the administrative limits of the Lithuanian capi ...

, Lithuania (2006) *

Zielona Góra Zielona Góra (; ''Green Mountain''; ) is the largest city in Lubusz Voivodeship, located in western Poland, with 140,403 inhabitants (). The region is closely associated with vineyards and holds an annual Zielona Góra Wine Fest, Wine Fest. Zie ...

, Poland (2001) In February 2016 Ivano-Frankivsk City Council terminated its twinned relations with the Russian cities

Surgut Surgut ( rus, Сургу́т, p=sʊrˈgut; Khanty: Сәрханӆ, ''Sərhanł, Сө̆ркут, sörkut'') is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Ob River near its junction with the Irtysh River. It is one of the fe ...

Serpukhov Serpukhov ( rus, Серпухов, p=ˈsʲerpʊxəf) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Oka River, Oka and the Nara (Oka), Nara Rivers, 99 kilometers (62 miles) south fro ...

and

Veliky Novgorod Veliky Novgorod ( ; , ; ), also known simply as Novgorod (), is the largest city and administrative centre of Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is one of the oldest cities in Russia, being first mentioned in the 9th century. The city lies along the ...

due to the

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...

.Chernivtsi decided to terminate the relationship with twin two Russian cities

The Ukrainian Week ''The Ukrainian Week'' (, ) is an illustrated weekly magazine and news outlet covering politics, economics and the arts and aimed at the socially engaged Ukrainian-language reader. It provides a range of analysis, opinion, interviews, feature p ...

(February 27, 2016)

Partner cities

Ivano-Frankivsk cooperates with: *

Baia Mare Baia Mare ( , ; ; ; ) is a Municipiu, city along the Săsar, Săsar River, in northwestern Romania; it is the capital of Maramureș County. The city lies in the region of Maramureș, a subregion of Transylvania. It is situated about from Buchare ...

, Romania (1990) *

Nyíregyháza Nyíregyháza (, ) is a city with county rights in northeastern Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. With a population of 118,001, it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and the second largest in the Northern Great ...

, Hungary (2004) *

Oradea Oradea (, , ; ; ) is a city in Romania, located in the Crișana region. It serves as the administrative county seat, seat of Bihor County and an economic, social, and cultural hub in northwestern Romania. The city lies between rolling hills on ...

, Romania (2003) *

Târgoviște Târgoviște (, alternatively spelled ''Tîrgoviște'') is a Municipiu, city and county seat in Dâmbovița County, Romania. It is situated north-west of Bucharest, on the right bank of the Ialomița (river), Ialomița River. Târgoviște was ...

, Romania (2005)

Orientation

; Local orientation ; Regional orientation

Notes

References

Sources

* "Endure, Defy and Remember", by Joachim Nachbar, 1977 * * "False papers: deception and survival in the Holocaust", by Robert Melson, Univ. of Illinois Press, 2000. Dr. Melson is a professor of political science at

Purdue Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donat ...

, whose grandfather owned the Mendelsohn factory in Stanislawow. * "I'm not even a grown up, the diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman", translated by Anthony Rudolf and Joanna Voit, ed. by Anthony Rudolf. London: Menard Press, 1991. 11-yr old in Stanislaw commits suicide to avoid capture by Nazis. * "Living Longer than Hate", by C.S. Ragsdale *

External links

; General information and travel
Site of Ivano-Frankivsk, Franyk (ua)

Web company in Frankovsk, Frankivsk.in.ua (ua)

Іvano-Frankivsk , Portal (ukr.)

ifportal.net

pravda.if.ua

Local business catalog
; Maps
Soviet topographic map 1:100,000

2005 Ivano-Frankivsk
– Satellite image

; History * ttp://www.signandsight.com/features/574.html ''The Stanislau Phenomenon''– How the Western Ukrainian provincial nest of Ivano-Frankivsk turned into a thriving literary metropolis and multicultural frontier between East and West. By Holger Gemba at signandsight.com * – Transliteration of Unpublished List of Citizens Murdered by the Nazis, from documents of the Russian Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes
Polish historical website on Stanislawow

Photographs of Jewish sites in Ivano-Frankivsk
i
Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina
* ; Photos
Stanislaw: virtual Ivano-Frankivs'k , spherical panoramas

Old photos and postcards which highlight city architecture at the beginning of the 20th century

Photos of modern Ivano-Frankivsk (from 2004)

Photos of Ivano-Frankivsk
{{Authority control 1660s establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Cities in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Holocaust locations in Ukraine Magdeburg rights Oblast centers in Ukraine Populated places established in 1663 Historic Jewish communities in Ukraine