Stryi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

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🇺🇦 Stryi is a city located on the left bank of the river Stryi in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine 65 km to the south of Lviv (in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains). Serving as the administrative centre of Stryi Raion, it is designated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion.

Stryi is considered to be the first city in Ukraine to bear the blue-over-yellow Ukrainian national flag when it was hoisted on the flagpole of the Town Hall on March 14, 1990 even before the fall of the Soviet Union.

History Stryi was mentioned for the first time in 1385 (see: Red Ruthenia). Already then its territory was incorporated in the Kingdom of Poland after the decline of Ruthenian Kingdom. In 1387 the Polish king Jogaila gave the city as the present to his pro-Tsarist brother Švitrigaila. In 1431 it was given the Magdeburg Rights, and it was located in the Ruthenian Voivodeship, which from the 14th century until 1772 was a part of Poland. The city was governed by the local magistrate headed by a burgomaster.

Its geographical location had a positive influence on its development and growth. The city became a flourishing trade centre being located on the major trade route between Halych and Lviv and especially during the 15th to 16th century due to support from the Polish king John III Sobieski. It also was destroyed during one of the Tatars raids in 1523. The city was later rebuilt and included a castle for defense purposes which later in the 18th century was demounted by the Austrian authorities. In 1634 the city was destroyed once again by another Tatar raid. In times of the Khmelnytsky Uprising the Cossack Hetmanate army was reinforced here by the Hungarian regiments of prince Rákóczi of Transylvania. After the partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772 the city became a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (see: Partitions of Poland). During the revolutionary times in the empire the Ruthenian Council was created in the city in 1848. During 1872-1875 the city was connected to a railroad network. Its first wooden train station was built in 1875. At this time it started to industrialize. Among the most influencing citizens of the city were Doctor Yevhen Olesnytsky, Father Oleksa Bobykevych, and Father O.Nyzhankivsky.

Stryj tombs of Ostap Nyzhankivskyj (1862-1919) and Helen Nyzhankivskyj (1868-1927)

In 1886 a large fire burned almost the entire city to the ground. From October 1914 to May 1915 Stryi was occupied by the Russian Empire. In 1915 a bloody World War I battle took place in the Carpathian Mountains, around the peak of Zwinin (992 metres above sea level), a few km south of Stryi in which some 33,000 Russian soldiers perished.

On November 1, 1918, an armed uprising took place in the city, after which it became a part of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Stryi was passed to Poland in May 1919, and became part of Poland first by the Warsaw treaty of 1920 and then the Riga Peace treaty of 1921. In 1939, following the Soviet Union's invasion of eastern Poland, Stryi became part of the Ukrainian SSR. (see: Polish September Campaign). In interbellum Poland, it was the capital of the Stryj County (area 2,081 square km (803 sq mi), pop. 152,600) of the Stanisławów Voivodeship. According to the Polish census of 1931, its population consisted of 35.6% Jews, 34.5% Poles, 28% Ukrainians and 1.6% Germans.

In July 1941 the Nazis conquered Stryi. In a short time, Ukrainians and local Poles conducted a pogrom in the Jews of the settlement, killing about 300 people. Between then and August, 1943, the Nazis, with the assistance of the Ukrainian police, murdered most of the town's 11,000 Jews in a nearby forest or rounded them up to be sent to Belzec extermination camp. Of a prewar population of 11,000, only a few Jews survived.

During the Cold War the town was home to Stryy Air Base.

Stryi is thought to have been the first city in Ukraine to display the blue-over-yellow Ukrainian national flag, when it was hoisted at the Stryi city hall on 14 March 1990, before the December 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.

History: Recent On April 9, 2009, the Lviv Oblast council decided to remove a Soviet-era statue to the Red Army soldier that was installed by the local Communist regime in the city of Stryi and move it to a museum of the Soviet totalitarianism, saying that the statue carries no historical or cultural value to the city.

Until 18 July 2020, Stryi was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative centre of Stryi Raion even though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven, the city of Stryi was merged into Stryi Raion.

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Stryi has a population of over 59,608 people. Stryi also forms the centre of the wider Stryi Raion which has a population of over 322,853 people.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Stryi has links with:

🇲🇩 Bălți, Moldova 🇱🇻 Daugavpils, Latvia 🇩🇪 Düren, Germany 🇱🇺 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 🇧🇦 Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇭🇺 Kiskunhalas, Hungary 🇫🇷 Les Herbiers, France 🇵🇱 Leszno, Poland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mansfield, England 🇵🇱 Nowy Sącz, Poland 🇨🇦 Vegreville, Canada 🇵🇱 Zakopane, Poland 🇵🇱 Łańcut, Poland
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Antipodal to Stryi is: -156.15,-49.25

Locations Near: Stryi 23.85,49.25

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