Stryi. Vacation
Stryj - district center Stryisky district, Lviv region, one of the most important and major transportation hubs in Western Ukraine. Located on the left bank of the river Stry. It is home to 60,154 people. Settlement area is 16.95 km. square. The city is international road M12 (Stry - Znamenka) and M06 (Kyiv - Chop), European - E50 (Brest - Makhachkala), national H10 (Stry - Chisinau). Transit flows bypass road city bypass road. In combinations with other areas across the railway station trains go stry of Prague, Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb and Venice. 4 km southwest of the town is a former military airfield "stry" unique in that it can take all existing aircraft types. It was his characteristics, geographical location may in the future contribute to the creation of the airport.
The date of establishment Stryya considered in 1385. In 1431, the city was one of the first Ukrainian city gets Magdeburg Law. With the outbreak of World War stry is the birthplace of the Legion "Ukrainian Sich Riflemen." During the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919 in Stryi was constant Command III Corps UGA. In the 1920-1930-их pokah city was one of the most active centers of UVO and OUN. March 14, 1990 (from Soviet Union) in Stryi, first of Ukrainian cities, raised national symbol - the flag of Ukraine.
In Stryi there are 95 monuments of local importance. By historical and architectural attractions include:
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (pl. 22 th January, 1) - one of the oldest buildings in the city. Erected in 1425, and survived several reconstructions;
Building sanitary station (str, 26) say that this house built Striyskiy former mayor, and then King of Poland Jan III Sobieski for his beloved wife Mary, who became Polish history under the name "Marysyenky";
People's House (St. Folk, 8) - built by the Ukrainian and opened in 1901.
City House of Culture (St. Krushelnytska, 18) - built in 1906 as the home of Society "Falcon", now - Townhouse culture, architect V. Kryzhanovsky;
House adult clinic (St. Shevchenko, 59) - the building once belonged to the state insurance organization, the so-called "Kasi patients";
Home City Council (street Shevchenko, 71) - Former Circuit Court;
The railway station (Street Station, 7) - the fourth in a row station built on the site of the previous;
House officer education (St. O.Bobykevycha, 5) - built in the Art Nouveau style romantic in the early twentieth century. He was a lawyer, and is rumored to lock this in miniature was present for the two unmarried daughters of a lawyer;
Church of Archangel Michael (St. Krushelnytska, 21) - the former church of St. Joseph was built in the modern style with elements of the gothic. Now - this is the Orthodox Church of St. Michael;
Home school work (street Krushelnitska 16) - former villa "Turega", built in the second half of the nineteenth century in the style of eclectic historicism (a mixture of styles), now - Youth Arts Centre. And in the past there was a church parish house of Joseph, where the sisters lived nazaretyanky;
In Stryi established many monuments of prominent Ukrainian figures, including Ukraine's only monument triptych Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainian, the only monument in Lviv Jaroslaw Stetsko and monuments to Stepan Bandera, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, "Sons Stryi District who had not returned from the Afghan War," sculptural composition "Pieta" and stele in honor of the 600th anniversary of the city.
