Drohobych

Drohobych is a city of local significance in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the place of work of Drohobych district. In 1939–1941 and 1944–1959 it changed into the center of Drohobych Oblast. The metropolis was based at the cease of 11^th century as an important trading put up and delivery node between Kyiv Rus' and the lands to the West of Rus'. After extinction of the local Ruthenian dynasty and subsequent incorporation of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia into the Polish Kingdom by using 1349, from the 15^th century the town became growing as a mercantile and saltworks centre. Drohobych have become a part of Habsburg Empire in 1772 after the first partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

In the mid-19^th century it have become Europe's biggest oil extraction middle, which drastically contributed to its speedy improvement. In the renascent, interwar Poland it was the middle of a county within the Lwow Voivodeship. In the final results of World War II the town turned into incorporated into the Ukrainian part of the Soviet Union, which in 1991 became the impartial Ukraine. The city become the birthplace of such famous personalities like Elisabeth Bergner, Yuriy Drohobych, Ivan Franko and Bruno Schulz. The town has several oil refineries. The Drohobych saltworks are considered to be the oldest in Europe. The estimated populace of the town in 2016 turned into 76,686.