Ivano-Frankivsk - Iwano-Frankiwsk

Ivano-Frankivsk (Івано-Франківськ (Iwano-Frankiws'k); Russian Ивано-Франковск (Iwano-Frankowsk), historical (until 1962) Станислав (Stanislaw) or Станиславсковсков Ivano-Frankivs'ka Oblast and a good base for a trip to the Ukrainian Forest Carpathians.

background

The city is a Polish foundation (Stanisławów) from 1662. It belonged to Austria (Crown Land of Galicia) from 1772 to 1918, before the city briefly became the capital of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic in 1919. In 1921 the city became part of Poland and in 1939 through the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to the Soviet Union. After the attack on the Soviet Union, the city was annexed to the General Government, but became Soviet again after the reconquest by the Red Army. The city has been part of Ukraine since 1991.

The city was an important Jewish center until World War II. Almost all of the 25,000 Jewish residents in the 1930s (around 50% of the population) were murdered in the Holocaust. Numerous mass shootings took place in and around Ivano-Frankivsk, and not all of the mass graves have been found to this day.

In 1962, the city was renamed Ivano-Frankivsk in honor of the 300th birthday of the Ukrainian poet and writer Ivan Franko.

getting there

By plane

• Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport: Individual scheduled flights from Kiev.
• More choice at the airport Lviv.

By train

• Long-distance trains and night trains on the railway line Lviv-Chernivtsi
• Regional trains Stryj and Rakhiv

By bus

In the street

• Highway H-09 Lviv - Ivano-Frankivsk - Chust - Mukacheve
• Highway H-10 Stryj - Ivano-Frankivsk - Chernivtsi

mobility

Tourist Attractions

The old town has been almost completely renovated in the last 20 years and includes a large number of old buildings from the time of the Habsburg rule. There are also numerous public buildings from the Soviet era that are well worth seeing outside of the center.

There is an artificial lake in the city center and a Jewish cemetery next to it. A large number of Jews were rounded up and murdered here during the German occupation in World War II.

activities

shop

kitchen

nightlife

accommodation

health

Practical advice

trips

• Kolomyia. The center of Easter egg painting with a museum of painted Easter eggs that looks like an Easter egg itself.last change: not specified

• Fortress of Halychlast change: not specified

• Forest Carpathianslast change: not specified

literature

Web links

• http://www.mvk.if.ua - Official website of Ivano-Frankivsk