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Drohobych

Country
Ukraine
State
Lviv Oblast
City
Drohobych
Type of Location
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By Air

Airports nearest to Drogobych are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

Lvov Airport (distanced approximately 61 km)
Falkenberg Rail Airport (distanced approximately 64 km)
Ivano Frankovsk Airport (distanced approximately 100 km)
Uzhgorod Airport (distanced approximately 120 km)
Hopkinsville Campbell AAF Airport (distanced approximately 130 km)

By Train

Drohobych passenger station is located in the eastern part of town.Previously there was a so-called "small station" that on the street Borislavskoe, now it is in the refinery number 2.The city is going suburban electric Stry - Sambor, Lviv - Truskavets and accordingly reversed.Railway between Drohobych and Borislav existed since Austria-Hungary to 50 years of the twentieth century.In 1994 he was restored commuter train traffic along this route.

By Bus

Public transport Drohobych is a shuttle bus, travel in which costs 1.50 USD.In Soviet times, in buses operated, but in the 1990s they were replaced by an increasing number of taxis.According to the statements mayor Truskavets in Drohobych planned area intercity trolley lines Drohobych-Truskavets - Borislav - Skhidnytsia, which was planned in Soviet times, according to the plan of Drohobych agglomeration.

Key places to visit
St. George's Church, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Yuri Drohobych Drama Theater, Drogobych Museum, Drohobych Art Gallery, Drohobych Synagogue


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Places to Visit

St. George's Church

St. George's Church in Drohobych is one of the oldest and best preserved timber churches of Galicia.The church, dating from ca.1500, consists of three parts.The central block is square in plan and comprises the nave.Two other blocks contain the double apse and the narthex.Between 1678 and 1711 the church was renovated: the interior was frescoed, the octogonal structures built up, and a new belfry appeared.

Holy Trinity Cathedral

is a Church in Drohobych in Lviv region, an ancient spiritual center, a model of sacred architecture of XVII - XIX centuries, the historical and architectural monument of local importance Lviv region.The majestic brick temple complex of church buildings located in Drohobych downtown, near City Hall, at St. Truskavetska, 2.The wooden church of the Holy Trinity in Drohobych was built in 1555 was not far from the now existing church.

Yuri Drohobych Drama Theater

is a Theater in Drohobych Lviv region, a significant center of culture and leisure residents and visitors.Drama Theatre in Drohobych was established after the entry of Western lands to the USSR in 1939 year.The first troupe was equipped with local amateur actors and graduates of the Kiev Theatre Institute and Dnepropetrovsk drama school.When Drohobych again came under Soviet rule, in December 1944, the returns from evacuation Drohobych Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre named after M.Kropivnitskogo, which combined with the local troupe and begins to operate under the name Drohobych Regional Music and Drama.The first tour Drogobych artists went in 1950 year.Since 1970, the theater that kept regional status after entering Drohobych region of the Lviv, was named Ukrainian Soviet ideologically neutral playwright Yaroslav Halan.

Drogobych Museum

is a Museum in Drohobych Lviv region, divided into several thematic sections valuable collection of materials and objects of history, nature, culture, ethnography, creative achievements and outstanding personiliy Drohobychyna.Regional Museum in Drohobych as State Regional Museum "Drohobychyna" was created in May 1940 year.For the museum was transferred to house former Drohobych county council, built in 1894 by (now in the home department of nature and history).The basis of museums made a collection of Count Lyantskoronskoho, Hyrivskoyi Jesuit schools, separate collections of former Sambir historical and ethnographic and Truskavets natural and ethnographic museums.

Drohobych Art Gallery

Exposure Drohobych Art Gallery recreates the atmosphere of cultural and artistic life of past centuries Drohobych in the context of Central Europe.Here is a painting XVI-XX centuries, graphics XVII-XX centuries., Sculpture, works of sacred art, and more.Part of the exhibition devoted to the work of Father Basil Hlibkevycha.These icons 40 - 70 years of the XVIII century.All icons drawn to Drohobych churches, most of all - for Martyr Yury and Vozdvyzhenska.Among the exhibits department - restored icons Drohobychyna and secular art XVII-XVIII centuries - old stuff collection of Ukrainian-Lithuanian graph type Lyantskoronskyh, whose estate was in Rozdil Lviskoyi areas: portraits of family members, tableware, decorative and applied art, landscapes and graphics.

Drohobych Synagogue

a monument of architecture and culture in Drohobych (Ukraine), is outside P.Orlik, one among eight of the twenty synagogues Drohobych that remained after WWII.Its built in 1842- 1865 's in the Jewish suburb of Drohobych - Lang, on the basis of the external decoration was a German synagogue in Kassel (1830).After World War II it housed the composition of salt, then mebelnyy shop in the annexes - grocery stores.In the 1990s, the building was transferred to community Judaisers.The building is in ruins, there are projects of reconstruction.

Right Time to Visit

July - August

Temperature

July - August -> 22(°C) - Summer
January - June -> 18(°C) - Winter


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