Stryi

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Stryi
Стрий
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CountryFile:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine
OblastLviv Oblast
RaionStryi Raion
HromadaStryi urban hromada
Founded13th century
Magdeburg law1431
Government
 • MayorOleg Kanivets
Area
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Population
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Population
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(August 2024)[1]
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Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
82400
Template:Pluralize from text+380-3245Template:Pluralize from text
Licence plateBC (before 2004: ТА,ТВ,ТН,ТС)
Websitehttp://stryi-rada.gov.ua/index.php

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Stryi (Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx) is a city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located in the left bank of the Stryi River, approximately 65 kilometres (40 mi) south of Lviv in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. It serves as the administrative center of Stryi Raion within the oblast. Stryi also hosts the administration of Stryi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[2] Its population is approximately Template:Ua-pop-est2022

Name

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Stryj postcard, 1915

The city takes its name from that of the river Stryi, a tributary of the Dniester.[citation needed]

The river's name is very old and means "stream".[3] Its etymology stems from the Indo-European root *sreu. Template:NoteTag The area was inhabited by the White Croats and it has been established that name Horvat (Croat) is likewise of Iranian (Sarmatian) origin.[citation needed]

In different times the name was written differently, and in various old documents we can find such names: Stryg, Stry, Stryj, Stryjn, Stryjia, Strig, Strigenses, Stryi, Strey, Striig, Strya, Sthryensis, Sthrya, Stryei, and Stri. The inhabitants take pride in the fact that the city has managed to keep its original name over time.[citation needed]

History

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Church of Our Lady Protectress
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Relics of the blessed Josaphat Kotsylovsky
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Magistrate of the Royal city of Stryi

Stryi was mentioned for the first time in 1385 (see: Red Ruthenia). Its territory was annexed to Poland following their invasion and conquest of Galicia. In 1387 the Polish king Jogaila gave the city as the present to his brother Švitrigaila. In 1431 it was given the Magdeburg Rights, and it was located in the Ruthenian Voivodeship, which from the conquest in the 14th century until 1772 was a part of Poland.[4] The city was governed by the local magistrate headed by a burgomaster. Following the Partitions of Poland the territory and all Galicia fell to the Austrian Empire.

Its geographical location had a positive influence on its development and growth. The city became a flourishing trade center being located on the major trade route between Halych and Lviv and especially during the 15th to 16th centuries. It was destroyed during one of the Tatar raids in 1523. The city was later rebuilt and included a castle for defence purposes which later in the 18th century was dismantled by the Austrian authorities. In 1634 the city was destroyed once again by another Tatar raid. During the Khmelnytsky Uprising the Cossack Hetmanate army was reinforced by Hungarian regiments of Prince Rákóczi of Transylvania.

In the mid-18th century, Stryi's population was as follows: 89% Roman Catholics, 6% Greek Catholics, and 5% Jews.[5] After the partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, the city became a part of the Austrian Empire (see: Partitions of Poland). During the revolutionary times in the Empire a Ruthenian Council was created in the city in 1848. During 1872-1875 the city was connected to the Austro-Hungarian railroad network. Its first train station was built in 1875. Around this time industrialisation began. Among the most influentual citizens of the city were Doctor Yevhen Olesnytsky, Father Oleksa Bobykevych, and Father O.Nyzhankivsky[citation needed].

In 1886 a large fire burnt almost the entire city to the ground. From October 1914 to May 1915 Stryi was occupied by the Russian Empire. In 1915 a bloody World War I battle took place in the nearby Carpathian Mountains, around the peak of Zwinin (992 metres above sea level), a few kilometres south of Stryi in which some 33,000 Imperial Russian soldiers perished.

On 1 November 1918, an armed uprising took place in the town, after which it became a part of the short-lived West Ukrainian People's Republic. Stryi was again annexed by Poland in May 1919 during another invasion. In 1939, following the Soviet Union's invasion of eastern Poland, Stryi became part of the Ukrainian SSR. (see: Polish September Campaign). In interbellum Poland, it was the capital of the Stryj County (area 2,081 square kilometres (803 sq mi), pop. 152,600) of the Stanisławów Voivodeship. According to the Polish census of 1931, its population consisted of 35.6% Jews, 34.5% Poles, 28% Ukrainians and 1.6% Germans.[6]

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Stryi Air Base

In July 1941, the Germans invaded all Galicia, including Stryi. In a short time, Ukrainians and local Poles conducted a pogrom in the Jews of the settlement, killing about 300 people. Between then and August, 1943, the Germans, with the assistance of the Ukrainian police, are said to have murdered most of the town's 11,000 Jews in a nearby forest or rounded them up to be sent to Belzec extermination camp.[7] Of a pre-war population of 11,000, only a few Jews survived.[8]

During the Cold War the town was home to Stryy Air Base.

Stryi was the first city in Ukraine to display the Ukrainian flag, when it was hoisted at the Stryi city hall on 14 March 1990, before the December 1991 implosion of the Soviet Union.[9]

Recent history

On 9 April 2009, the Lviv Oblast council decided to remove a Soviet-era statue to the Red Army soldier that was installed by the local Communist regime in the city of Stryi and move it to a museum of the Soviet totalitarianism, saying that the statue carries no historical or cultural value to the city.

Until 18 July 2020, Stryi was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Stryi Raion even though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven, the city of Stryi was merged into Stryi Raion.[10][11]

Population

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Economy

In 2023 an industrial park was opened in Stryi with the support of local government.[12]

Notable people

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Tombs of Ostap Nyzhankivsky (1862-1919), Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, composer and public figure, and his wife Helen (1868-1927) in Stryi

Notable people born in Stryi include:

Twin towns – sister cities

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Other forms of cooperation

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Battle of Stryi

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Sources

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Стрийська міська громада - Концепція інтегрованого розвитку" [Stryi Urban Community - Concept of Integrated Development] (PDF) (in українська). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-04-04.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Стрыйская городская громада" (in русский). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  3. ^ From the Stryi-city unofficial website Template:In lang
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History of Stryi". stryy.com.ua. 2008-06-01.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Motylewicz, Jerzy (2005). "Ethnic Communities in the Towns of the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries". In Hann, Christopher; Magocsi, Paul Robert (eds.). Galicia A Multicultured Land. University of Toronto Press. p. 37. ISBN 9780802037817.
  6. ^ This is an extremely questionable census, disregarded by western historians as grossly corrupted and falsified.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Megargee, Geoffrey (2012). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press. p. Volume II, 834–836. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.
  8. ^ This is disputed: see Dr. Thomas Dalton, PhD., Debating the Holocaust - A New Look at Both Sides, Theses & Dissertations Press, New York, 2009, Template:ISBN
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Стрий, 14.03.1990, наш прапор". 2025-03-14. Retrieved 2025-10-17.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in українська). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Індустріальним паркам у Львові та Стрию виділили майже 100 млн грн з бюджету". 2025-12-01. Retrieved 2025-12-01.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Міста-побратими міста Стрия". stryi-rada.gov.ua (in українська). Stryi. Retrieved 2020-03-30.

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