Lviv Oblast Львівська область L’vivs’ka oblast’
Flag Coat of arms
Nickname: Львівщина  (Ukrainian) Lvivshchyna  (transliteration)
Location of Lviv Oblast (red) on the map of Ukraine (blue). A nickname is a Name of an entity or thing that is not its Proper name. Ukrainian (in Ukrainian украї́нська мо́ва ukrayins'ka mova,) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. Transliteration is the practice of Transcribing a Word or text written in one Writing system into another writing system or system of rules for such practice Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe.
Administrative center	Lviv
Largest cities
Governor	Petro Oliynyk (?)
Oblast council
– Chairman	Andriy Sadovy (?)
– № of seats	?
Established
Subdivisions
– Raions	20
– Cities of oblast subordinance	9
– Cities (total)	44
– Towns	34
– Villages	1,849
Area	Ranked 17th
– Total	21,833 km²
– Land	? km²
– Water	? (?%)
Population	Ranked ?
– Total (2006)	2,555,834
– Density	119. Lviv ( Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, Lwów Lemberg Львов L'vov; see also other names) is a major city in western As of January 1 2008 there are 458 cities ( Ukrainian: мiсто misto) in Ukraine A governor is a governing official usually the executive (at least nominally to different degrees also politically and administratively of a non-sovereign level of government Ukraine is a Republic under a Semi-presidential system with separate Legislative, executive, and Judicial branches Lviv Oblast (Львівська область translit L’vivs’ka oblast’; also referred to as L’vivshchyna - Львівщина Ukraine is subdivided into 24 Oblasts (provinces, one Autonomous republic, and two " cities with special status' " Raions of Ukraine (or raiony, to use the Ukrainian plural Райони України are small territorial subdivisions of Ukraine See also List of cities in Ukraine by population. As of January 1 2008 there are 458 cities ( Ukrainian See also List of cities in Ukraine by population. As of January 1 2008 there are 458 cities ( Ukrainian See also Subdivisions of Ukraine As of January 1, 2006 there are 886 Urban-type settlements (селище міського типу Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. This is a list of the Ukrainian Oblasts and territories in order of descending area Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology This is a list of the Ukrainian Oblasts and territories in order of descending population (in 2006 except otherwise stated Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 54 p/ km²
– Average salary	UAH ? (?%)
Time zone	EET +2
– Summer (DST)	EEST +3
Abbreviations
– Postal code	?
– ISO 3166-2	UA-46
– FIPS 10-4	UP15
– Telephone code	+380-32
– Licence plate	(ukr)
Official website	www.loda.gov.ua
Verkhovna Rada site

Lviv Oblast (Ukrainian: Львівська область, translit. L’vivs’ka oblast’; also referred to as L’vivshchyna - Ukrainian: Львівщина) is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine. See also The hryvnia, sometimes hryvnya or (incorrectly hryvna or hrivna (гривня ˈɦrɪu̯nʲɑ sign: ₴, code: Eastern European Time ( EET) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving time ( DST Eastern European Summer Time ( EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 Time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Ukrainian postal codes consist of five digits These codes are given to all settlements with 500 or more inhabitants irrespective of post office presence habitations with smaller population ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO ISO 3166-2UA is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Ukraine. The FIPS 10-4 standard Countries Dependencies Areas of Special Sovereignty and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, lists two-letter country codes that This is a list of FIPS 10-4 region codes from S-U using a standardized name format and cross-linking to articles A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks A vehicle registration plate is a metal or plastic plate attached to a Motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes Ukrainian (in Ukrainian украї́нська мо́ва ukrayins'ka mova,) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Верховна Рада України English: Supreme Council of Ukraine) is Ukraine 's Parliament Ukrainian (in Ukrainian украї́нська мо́ва ukrayins'ka mova,) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. The romanization or latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters. Lviv Oblast (Львівська область translit L’vivs’ka oblast’; also referred to as L’vivshchyna - Львівщина Ukrainian (in Ukrainian украї́нська мо́ва ukrayins'ka mova,) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. Ukraine is subdivided into 24 Oblasts (provinces, one Autonomous republic, and two " cities with special status' " Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv. Lviv ( Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, Lwów Lemberg Львов L'vov; see also other names) is a major city in western

History

The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or the Ukrainian SSR was one of the 15 constituent republics that made up the Former Soviet Union from its "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The territory of the former Drohobych Oblast was incorporated into the Lviv Oblast in 1959. Drohobych Oblast (Дрогобицька область Drohobyts'ka oblast’) ( December 4, 1939 — June 21, 1959) was an The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

The oblast's strategic position at the heart of central Europe and as the gateway to the Carpathians has caused it to change hands many times over the centuries. The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians (Carpaţi Czech, Polish and Slovak: Karpaty; Ukrainian: Карпати It was ruled variously by Great Moravia, Kievan Rus', and by one of its successors, the state of Galicia-Volhynia (circa 1200 to 1400), then by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (circa 1400 to 1795), the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1795 to 1918), and Poland (1918 to 1939), when it was part of the Lwów Voivodship of the Second Republic of Poland. Great Moravia (see Name section was a Slavic state that existed in Central Europe from the 9th century to the early 10th century Kievan Rus′ (Ки́евская Русь romanised: Kievskaya Rus', rusʲ also written as Kyivan Rus′ (Ки́ївська Русь or Kievan The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia ( Ruthenian: sla Галицко-Волинскоє Королѣвство Regnum Galiciæ et Lodomeriæ or Galicia-Vladimir, was The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, officially the Commonwealth of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania also known as the Most Serene Republic Year 1795 ( MDCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Lwów Voivodeship (Województwo lwowskie was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918-1939 The Second Polish Republic or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II. The region's historically dominant Ukrainian population declared the area to be a part of an independent West Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918 but this endured only briefly. The West Ukrainian National Republic (Західно-Українська Народна Республика Zakhidno-Ukrayins’ka Narodna Respublyka or ЗУНР ZUNR Local autonomy was provided in international treaties but later on those were not honoured by the Polish government and the area experienced much ethnic tension between the Polish and Ukrainian population. The Polish people, or Poles, (Polacy) are a Western Slavic Ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Ukrainians (Українці Ukrayintsi,) are an East Slavic Ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly— Citizens

The region and its capital city take their name from the time of Galicia-Volhynia, when Daniel of Galicia, the King of Rus' founded Lviv, naming the city after his son, Leo. The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia ( Ruthenian: sla Галицко-Волинскоє Королѣвство Regnum Galiciæ et Lodomeriæ or Galicia-Vladimir, was Daniel of Galicia or Daniil Romanovich (Данило Галицький Danylo Halytskyi (1201&ndash1264 King of Galicia ( Galich or Lviv ( Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, Lwów Lemberg Львов L'vov; see also other names) is a major city in western Lev I of Galicia (Лев Данилович Lev Danylovich (born ca During this time, the general region around Lviv was known as Red Ruthenia (Cherven' Rus'). Red Ruthenia ( Червона Русь, Chervona Rus, Polish: Ruś Czerwona, Latin: Ruthenia Rubra or Russia

The region only became part of the Soviet Union under the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939, when it was annexed to the Ukrainian SSR. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or the Ukrainian SSR was one of the 15 constituent republics that made up the Former Soviet Union from its It was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944 and remained in Soviet hands after World War II as was arranged during the conferences Teheran and Yalta. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Tehran Conference ( Codenamed EUREKA) was the meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and Codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from 4 February Thanks to its historical development, Lviv Oblast is one of the least Russified and Sovietized parts of Ukraine, with much of its Habsburg heritage still visible today. Russification (in Russian: русификация rusifikátsiya)is an adoption of the Russian language or some other Russian attribute (whether voluntarily Sovietization is term that may be used with two distinct (but related meanings the adoption of a political system based on the model of soviets (workers' councils

Geography

The terrain of Lviv Oblast is highly varied, ranging from open steppes to dense forests, with intensively cultivated river basins and forested mountains. In physical Geography, a steppe ( German, from степь - "a flat and arid land" степ - /stɛp/ тал - tal дала - /dɑlɑ/ pronounced A forest is an area with a high density of Trees There are many definitions of a forest based on various criteria

Subdivisions

Raions of Lviv Oblast.

The Lviv Oblast is administratively subdivided into 20 raions (districts), as well as 9 city (municipalities) which are directly subordinate to the oblast government: Boryslav, Chervonohrad, Drohobych, Morshyn, Novyi Rozdil, Sambir, Stryi, Truskavets, and the administrative center of the oblast, Lviv. For the manufactured regenerated fiber see Rayon A raion (or rayon) (райо́н ra'jon rayon раён რაიონი Districts are a type of Administrative division, in some countries managed by a Local government. A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a City, Town, or Village, or Boryslav (Борислав Borysław is a City located on the Tysmenitsa River (a tributary of the Dniester) in the Lviv Oblast ( Chervonohrad (Червоноград is a City located in the Lviv Oblast ( province) of western Ukraine. Drohobych (Дрогóбич Cities' alternative names) is a City located at the confluence of the Tysmenytsia River and Seret, a tributary Morshyn (Моршин is a city in Ukraine 's Lviv Oblast ( province) Novyi Rozdil (Новий Розділ is a city in Lviv Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. Sambir (Самбір Sambor is a City in the Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland. Stryi (Стрий Polish: Stryj also known as Stryy Stryia and Stry is a City located on the left bank of the Stryi River in the Lviv Oblast Truskavets (Трускавець translit Truskavets’; Truskawiec is a City in western Ukraine 's Lviv Oblast ( province Lviv ( Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv, Lwów Lemberg Львов L'vov; see also other names) is a major city in western

Economy

The chief industries are agriculture, cattle and sheep farming and forestry. Brodivskyi Raion (Бродівський район translit: Brodivs’kyi raion) is a Raion ( District) of the Lviv Oblast Brody (Броди Brody Броды Yiddish: בּראָד translit A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Busk (Буськ Busk is a city located in Lviv Oblast ( province) of western Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Drohobych Raion (Дрогобицький район translit: Drohobyts’kyi raion) is a Raion ( District) of the Lviv Oblast ( Drohobych (Дрогóбич Cities' alternative names) is a City located at the confluence of the Tysmenytsia River and Seret, a tributary A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Horodok (Городок Gródek Jagielloński is a city in Lviv Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Kamianka-Buzka (Кам'янка-Бузька translit Kamianka-Buz'ka) is a City in the Lviv Oblast, of western Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Mostyska (Мостиська Mościska is a city in Lviv Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status This article is about a town in the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine. For the shipbuilding port and administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast in southern A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Peremyshliany (Перемишляни Przemyślany is a Town in Lviv Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Pustomyty (Пустомити is a city in Lviv Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Radekhiv (Радехів Radziechów is a city in Lviv Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Sambir (Самбір Sambor is a City in the Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Skole (Сколе is a city in the Lviv Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status This is an article about the city in Ukraine For other uses see Sokal (disambiguation. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Staryi Sambir (Старий Самбір Stary Sambor is a City in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Stryi (Стрий Polish: Stryj also known as Stryy Stryia and Stry is a City located on the left bank of the Stryi River in the Lviv Oblast A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Turka (Турка (Turka is a town in Lviv Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Yavoriv (Яворів Jaworów is a City located in the Lviv Oblast ( province) of western Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Zhovkva (Жовква Żółkiew Zholkva is a City in the Lviv Oblast ( province) of western Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Zhydachiv (Жидачів Żydaczów is a City in Lviv Oblast ( province) in western Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Zolochiv (Золочів Złoczów is a town located in the Lviv Oblast ( province) of western Ukraine. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi and the raising of domesticated Animals The study of agriculture Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domesticated Ungulates a member of the Subfamily Bovinae of the family Forestry is the Art and Science of managing forests tree Plantations and related Natural resources. Significant mineral extraction also occurs, and the region also possesses oil and natural gas deposits which are piped to the city of Lviv and used locally. Petroleum ( L petroleum, from Greek πετρέλαιον, lit Natural gas is a Gaseous Fossil fuel consisting primarily of Methane but including significant quantities of Ethane, Propane, Numerous factories were built in the Soviet times, including the Lvovskiy Avtomobilnyi Zavod which produced buses. Significant amount of smaller factories exist.

Demographics

• Male/female ratio: 48%/52%
• Nationalities: 90% of region's population are Ukrainians; 200,000 people are Russians; there are also smaller German, Polish, Jewish, and Gypsy minorities. Ukrainians (Українці Ukrayintsi,) are an East Slavic Ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly— Citizens Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending This article is about the German diaspora See Germans for the German ethnicity in general Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ The Romani people (singular Rom, plural Roma as a Noun; also known as Romanies or Roma people) are an ethnic group with origins

Religion

Fifty-six percent of the religious organisations active in the Lviv Oblast adhere to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. History Before the Union of Brest See also History of Christianity in Ukraine The Ukrainian Catholic church did not exist as such until the The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is the second largest religious body. The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC is one of the three major Orthodox Churches in Ukraine The followers of the Roman Catholic Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchy) are mostly from the Polish, and Russian or non-Galician Ukrainian minorities respectively. Name For the purpose of distinguishing the two Orthodox Churches the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is often referred to in public as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate

Historical and Cultural Sites

Detailed map of Lviv Oblast.

The city of Lviv contains a well-preserved main square (Rynok) and numerous historical and beautiful churches. Other sites of interest are the historic Lychakivskiy Cemetery, the local museum of folklore, and the high castle ruins. Lychakivskiy Cemetery (Cmentarz Łyczakowski Личаківський цвинтар translit There is also a museum of military artifacts, the "Arsenal".

Well-preserved local wooden churches can be found in the surrounding countryside, as can the Olesky Zamok (castle). A local museum of Ukrainian art and an institution of higher learning (Ivan Franko State University) are also present.

Nomenclature

Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially referred to as "oblast centers" (Ukrainian: обласний центр, translit. oblasnyi tsentr). Ukrainian (in Ukrainian украї́нська мо́ва ukrayins'ka mova,) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. The romanization or latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters. The name of each oblast is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city: L'viv is the center of the L'vivs'ka oblast' (Lviv Oblast). In Grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a Noun or Pronoun, giving more information about the In Grammar, a suffix (also postfix, ending) is an Affix which is placed at the end of a word Most oblasts are also sometimes referred to in a feminine noun form, following the convention of traditional regional place names, ending with the suffix "-shchyna", as is the case with the Lviv Oblast, Lvivshchyna.

See also: Romanization of Ukrainian

See also

• Subdivisions of Ukraine
• Poland’s Lwów Voivodeship (1921-1939)

References

• Source for statistics used: L'viv Regional State Administration Web Site - accessed February 29, 2004. The romanization or latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters. Ukraine is subdivided into 24 Oblasts (provinces, one Autonomous republic, and two " cities with special status' " The Second Polish Republic or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II. Lwów Voivodeship (Województwo lwowskie was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918-1939 The Peace of Riga, also known as the Treaty of Riga; (Ри́жский ми́рный договóр -- Romanisation Rízhsky Mírny dogovór --, Rīgas The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939 during the early stages of World War II, sixteen Leap years Although the modern calendar counts a year as 365 days a complete revolution around the sun takes approximately 365 days and 6 hours "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again "

External links

• L'viv Regional State Administration Web Site
• Symbols and flags

Coordinates: 49°43′03″N 23°57′01″E / 49.7175, 23.95028