Ivano-Frankivs’k region (oblast’) – information card
Ivano-Frankivs’k region
(oblast’) – information card
Ivano-Frankivs’k
region (oblast’)
Regional center – Ivano-Frankivs’k
History
Ivano-Frankins’k
oblast’ (former Stanislavs’ka) was established on December
4, 1939. Because of three-hundredth anniversary in November
1962 regional center Stanislav was renamed in Ivano-Frankivs’k.
Leadership of Ivano-Frankivs’k regional state administration
comprises the Head,first deputy of
the Head of regional state administration, deputy of the Head of information,
religion, nationalities, culture, sport; deputy of the Head of energy,
industry, transport, and communication; deputy of the Head of building,
communal services and motor road economy; deputy of the Head on territory
development and foreign economic relations; deputy of the Head of
agriculture and food, trade, consumer services of the population; deputy
of the Head on political and legal issues and deputy of the Head on
organizational staff activity of regional state administration on
organization, legal, personnel and inspection work.
Borders
Ivano-Frankivs’k
oblast’ occupies the northeastern part of the Ukrainian Carpathians,
Precarpathians and partly Opillya. Area – 13,9 thousand sq. km. The
region borders upon L’viv, Zakarpattya, Ternopil and Chernivtsi regions.
On the south – frontier with Romania.
Administrative center – Ivano-Frankivs’k.
Population
Total number of the population is –
1461 thousand people, density of the population – 105 inhabitants on sq. km.
There are 15 towns, 24 urban villages, 765 villages. The largest cities
are – Ivano-Frankivs’k, Kalush, Kolomyya.
Economic potential
Industry
Specific
positions in the structure of industry production belong to power
industry, fuel industry, chemical and petrochemical and food industry.
Segment of foodstuffs in the structure of ware production of national
consumption is 50%. In general there are 301 industry enterprises in the
regional that have their independent balance besides there are 591 small
industry enterprises.
Agriculture
In 1999 the gross grain yield
in the region was about 244,7 thousand tons, sugar-beets – 245,2 thousand
tons, sunflower seeds – 0,4 thousand tons, potatoes – 621,6 thousand
tons. It also produced 81,8 thousand tons of meat, 521,7 thousand tons of
milk and 236,1 million eggs. At the beginning of 1999 there were 578
farms in the region.
Principal direction of agriculture development is cattle breeding
with unit weight in total volume of agriculture production 53%.
Vegetation: flax, sugar-beet, cereals.
Culture and traditions
Over 10 state and 60 public
museums, National reserve "Old Galich" function in the region.
Over 162 thousand exhibits are kept in their funds.
Ivano-Frankovsk Museum of
Local Lore is in the Tower, the former house of city self-management which
is the original visit-card of our city. Expositions of the museum are
rich in interesting exhibits; special attention is paid to the
sarcophagus of Galych prince Jaroslav Osmomysl.
Ivano-Frankovsk art museum is
located in the Renaissance church of the XVIII century, where unique
Galych icons and baroque sculptures, works of Ukrainian artists of the
second half of the XX century, as well as masterpieces of Polish,
Austrian and Italian artists of the XVIII-XX centuries, baroque works of
Thomas Gudder, Konrad Kutchenreiter, Joana George Pinzel, Mateus
Polejovsky, Dionis Stanett¨, pictures of brothers Unterberg and many
others are collected. In the exposition of Art Museum wide palette of
decoratively - used arts is presented.
Kolomyja museum
of Folk Art of Hutsulshchyna
and Pokuttya after J. Kobrynskyj is one of the oldest storehouses of arts
and crafts in Prykarpattya.The confirmation of this fact is that it is
included to the Royal Encyclopedia of Great Britain as museum of world
masterpieces. The scientists of this institution contact with the museums
and scientific institutions of USA, Canada, Australia,Japan, France,
Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Estonia, Chechia, Slovakia, Romania and
Austria. The work of cultural - educational establishments goes on the
further revival of spiritual values, ethnic and cultural traditions of
our land, disclosing of unknown pages of Precarpathian history and the
state.
Wide many-genres spectrum of
world and national art masterpieces finds its reflection in creativity of
regional music-drama theatre after I.Franko, regional theatre of dolls
after. M.Podhorjanka, regional theatre of folklore, national holidays and
shows, Kolomyja drama theatre after Gnat Hotkevych. Ivano-Frankivs’k
region has kept many interesting folk customs, traditions, legends,
crafts which in urbanized society have absolutely disappeared. Modern
holidays, in villages, as well as in cities are held with participation
of national craftsmen, local skilful people - embroideresses, potters,
carpet-makers, carvers,pysanky makers - all those who has inherited the
talent from the Halych land.
1152 religious communities,
13 confessions, 10 cloisters, 2 theological seminaries and theological
institute.
Nature and ecology
The region is
rich in landscape: alps of the Carpathians, picturesque banks of
foothills. Forests of the region – the greatest part of the forest fund
of Ukraine.
Water resources: rivers Dnister and Prut with
inflows. Soil – forest, sod-podzol. Climate: moderately continental,
rainfall – 700-800 mm. Minerals: 160 deposits of 24 kinds of minerals
have been found. On Ivano-Frankivshchyna there are main oilfields and gas
fields of the Carpathian oil and gas province. The largest deposits are:
Dolynske oilfield, Bytkiv-Babchynske oil and gas fields, Bohorodchanske
gas field. Non-metallic mineral resources are represented by significant
potassium and magnesium salt deposits, healing mineral waters.
Contacts
Address:
˛vano-Frankivs’k regional state administration
21 Hrushevskoho str., Ivano-Frankivs’k 76004
