Drohobych district - district, Lviv region. Regional center is the city of Drohobych. Important industrial centers are Drohobych and Borislav. In Truskavets resort has international significance. The largest rivers of the district are Stry, Tysmenytsia, Bystrica, Bar, Kolodnytsya and Solonytsya. In Drohobych are approximately 74,500 people. The area is 1217 km. square.
Officially Drohobych district formed December 4, 1959, but the settlement in the area existed many years ago, including the founding date is Drohobych 1387.
The district has two historical and cultural monuments of national importance and 72 - local importance. The State registry included 11 monuments that are in the area. It is mainly built of sacred architecture. In Drogobytskiy area there are also 14 archaeological sites.
Without exaggeration, schoDrohobychchyna known worldwide, because it is here in the village Naguevichi was born and spent his childhood famous Ukrainian writer, poet and public figure Ivan Franko. In his native village masons is-museum and literary Ivan Franko Museum, here in Frankove grove established literary trail with wooden statues of heroes of his works. In 2012, the festival "Franco-fest" to update and promote creativity masons.
The village Naguevichi also buried at. Joseph Levitsky - author of the first printed in Galicia "Grammar of the Ukrainian language."
In Drogobytskiy born near many famous people:
with. Will Yakubov-born: Andrew Miller - Colonel UNR army, head of OUN, initiator of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians (WCFU) Michael Matchak - centurion USS organizers UVO, member of the Ukrainian Radical Party (URP) and ambassador to the Polish Seim of her arms , publicist, publisher;
with. Upper-cherished homeland Dmitry Gritsaja (Perebyynosa) - General cornet, chief of the General Staff of UPA;
with. Long-buried Mountain Kornylo Ustyjanovych - famous Ukrainian artist;
with. Bronytsya-born Stephen Kuznetsov - famous Ukrainian writer, one of the prominent people of Galicia, a contemporary of Ivan Franko
with. Medvezhaya-born Michael Bilas - one of the leading masters of modern Ukrainian weaving, by a wide range of creative life was closely linked with Maximus.
with. Mokryany-born James Parnassus - academician, a biochemist;
with. Bistrita-born: the poet Atena Pashko, Orestes Storonskyy poet, was born and buried Ph.D. Heinrich Hrymalyak.