Mostyska district - district, Lviv region. Located in the southwest of the city, on the border with Poland. Here is crossing border point "Shegyni" act first in our country hiking custom transition. Population settlement of 57,397 people, area - 845 km. square. A regional center is the river of January.
Mostyska rayonzasnovanyy 1939. While living on these lands was long before that date. In particular, the regional center - the city Mostyska, appeared in 1244. The oldest building in Mostyska, which survived until our days, is the church of St.. Yan (1550), Dominican Church (1598), Intercession Church (1636), a wooden church on the outskirts Zavada (1760), a former manor palace on the outskirts of Mines (the middle of the eighteenth century.). The oldest church in the area is the wooden church of St.. Nicholas (1587) that the village CHISHKO.
Many famous people were born in Mostyska area. From the village came Radohintsi eminent astronomer, historian and geographer Bernard Vapovskyy (XVI century). From the town of Cherry Court in the XVII century Polish writer Martin came Krovitskyy and Ukrainian polemicist John Vyshens'kyi. The village was born Pleshevychi greatest philosopher and economist Andrew Fredro XVII century, and came Mostys'ka famous scientist and economist Polish XVII century Jan Tobolka. Later near Mostys'ka born and worked with such prominent figures as Ukrainian scientist-scholar and teacher How Yarema (village Arlamivska Will), world-renowned singer Modest Mentsynsky (village Novoselki). Around Judicial Cherries in the village Bortyatyn, lived a talented and too sensitive to the beauty of mother nature poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych.
Mostyschynu actively consulted John Franco, members of the "Russian troika" Markian Shashkevych Holovats'kyi and John Vahylevych and writers Stephen Vasilchenko, Osip Macovei, Vyacheslav Budzynovsky, Basil Bobynskyy, Ulas Samchuk, Helen Teliha and others.