Borislav. Vacation
Borislav - a city of regional subordination, located in Drohobych area. Because Borislav river Tysmenytsia. It is home to 35,040 people, occupying an area of 37 km. square. The city is undergoing highways Drogobych-Shidnycia, Truskavets-Sambor. With regional center lions connection through highways A270, R131, R132, E471, M06, M17.
Borislav is the only city in the world that has grown on an industrial oil and gas field ozokerytnomu. The interesting thing is that it is among the ten greenest cities in Ukraine, despite the fact that the leading industry of the city - oil and gas.
The first written mention of Borislav - in literacy Polish Queen Jadwiga on March 19, 1387 An interesting history of Jews in 19-20 century. constituted an absolute majority of the inhabitants of the city, they were engaged in the oil fields, but during the war suffered from both ryadanskoyi authorities and from the Nazis. Today she lives in Borislav single Jew.
Memorials: T. Shevchenko (1940), J. Frank (1958), Adam Mickiewicz (1898), S. Bandera (1998), a memorial sign "Cross of Liberty" or " abolition of serfdom May 15, 1848 "(1998), a memorial table inventor of industrial oil in Ukraine in 1853 Johann Zehu (07.09.2007 g) and others.
Among the monuments of art and architecture: wooden church of St. John the Baptist (1879) and of the Holy Virgin (1902), and in the Tustanovichakh, when going to Maximus standing wooden church cemetery transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas (1899), Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( 1929) with stained glass Cold P. (1931). Also worth mentioning Tustan fortress, which is located near the cities and villages Borystava Urich.
