Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality is a former administrative subdivision of
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast located within the
Tysmenytsia Raion and completely surrounded by that raion. It consisted of the city of
Ivano-Frankivsk, the administrative center of the oblast, and a number of rural localities. Population: .
Overview
The municipality was created before the
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
in 1940 after reorganization of the
Stanisławów Voivodeship
Stanisławów Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo stanisławowskie) was an administrative district of the interwar Poland (1920–1939). It was established in December 1920 with an administrative center in Stanisławów. The voivodeship had an area o ...
. In 1962 the official name of it changed from Stanislav to Ivano-Frankivsk after the administrative center. It was located within the
Tysmenytsia District and consists of one city municipality and five rural ones. Through the municipality flow two major rivers of the region
Bystrytsias of Solotvyn and Nadvirna and one smaller one Vorona. Most of the territory is flat, however there are some elevated areas in northern parts near
Vovchynets known as Vovchynets Hills. There is also several lakes located within the city of Ivano-Frankivsk around which stretches a city park.
Administratively, until 2020, Ivano-Frankivsk was designated the
city of oblast significance, and Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality was the territory subordinated to Ivano-Frankivsk City Council. On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast was reduced to six, and Ivano-Frankivsk Municipality was abolished as an administrative subdivision and merged into
Ivano-Frankivsk Raion
Ivano-Frankivsk Raion ( uk, Івано-Франківський район, translit=Ivano-Frankiwśkyj rajon) is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions ...
. The last estimate of the municipality population was .
Demographics
Government
The city has its own council that is considered to be the main governing body of the municipality and is subordinated to the regional authorities (
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast).
The executive body is headed by the city's mayor who is charge of his/hers executive committee.
* City's Mayor
** Department of patronage service
** Legal department
** Department on issues of activities of law enforcement agencies, defense and mobilization operations
** Department of accounting records and reporting
** Finance department
** Department of permit-conciliation procedures (Permit Center of Ivano-Frankivsk city)
** Department of State registration (Registration Chamber)
** Department on issues of Emergency situations
** Service of prompt response
* Secretary of the City Council
** Department in assistance for the members of council
** Department of internal policy
** Expert-analytic department
* Executive Committee
** First Deputy of the City's Mayor
*** Department of Architecture and Urban Development
*** Department of Capital Construction
*** Department of registration and allocation of housing
*** Department of Land Relations
*** Communal Property Fund of the territorial community Ivano-Frankivsk City
*** Assistant of the First Deputy of the City's Mayor
** Deputy of the City's Mayor - Department Director of Communal Living, Transportation and Communication
*** Department of Communal Living, Transportation and Communication
*** Assistant of the Deputy of the City's Mayor
** Deputy of the City's Mayor
*** Department of Economic and Integral Development
*** Department of Trade
*** Assistant of the Deputy of the City's Mayor
** Deputy of the City's Mayor
*** Department on issues of Family, Youth and Gender policy
*** Department on issues of Cultural Heritage Preservation
*** Service of Children Affairs
*** Department of Education and Science
*** Committee on Fitness and Sports
*** City's Center of social services for family, children and youth
*** Department of Social Policy
*** Central City Clinical Hospital
*** Assistant of the Deputy of the City's Mayor
** Administrative manager
*** Department of organizational and information work and control
*** General Department
*** Commercial Department
*** Department of public appeals
*** Department of Human Resources
*** Department of software and computer support
*** Department of Archives
*** Administrative Commission
*** City headquarters of public formations on protection of public order
*** Department on Keeping the State Registry of voters
*** Secretary-referent
Infrastructure
;Public transportation
The city of Ivano-Frankivsk has an extensive network of public transport including buses,
trolleybus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or trol ...
es, and
taxis
A taxis (; ) is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food. Taxes are innate behavioural responses. A taxis differs from a tropism (turning response, often growth towards or away from a stim ...
. There are nine trolleybus routes and about 52 for regular buses. Some of the routes run beyond the city into nearby villages.
;Railway transportation
There is one
railway terminal
A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing such ...
locally known as Vokzal. There are also smaller rail stations in the adjacent villages such as
Uhryniv,
Khryplyn, and other. All of them are part of the
Lviv Railways
Lviv Railways (abbreviated as LR) ( uk, Львівська залізниця) is a territorial branch company of Ukrzaliznytsia headquartered in Lviv.
General description
Lviv Railways administers all railroads of Lviv Oblast, Zakarpattia Obl ...
.
;Bus transportation
Until 2008 the railway terminal also housed a bus terminal which provided several inter-city bus routes, including some to international destinations. In 2000 construction work began on a new bus terminal next to the railway terminus on Zaliznychna Street. Inauguration of the new bus terminal took place on May 22, 2010. At the opening ceremony the mayor of the city, Viktor Anushkevichus, noted that the new bus terminal was only partially completed, and for a period it would be necessary to offload at the Pryvokzalna Square, which is already saturated with traffic. He also emphasised the need for another bus station on the outskirts of the city.
;Airways transportation
The city is served by the
Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport, which was granted international status in 1992. The airport shares its facilities with the 114 Brigade of the
Ukrainian Air Force
The Ukrainian Air Force ( uk, Пові́тряні си́ли Збро́йних сил Украї́ни) is the air force of Ukraine and one of the five branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Its headquarters are in the city of Vinnytsia. W ...
. Since 2002 the airport has been leased to the private enterprise company "Yavson", and from 2005 the
Public limited company
A public limited company (legally abbreviated to PLC or plc) is a type of public company under United Kingdom company law, some Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the Republic of Ireland. It is a limited liability company whose shares may be fre ...
"Naftokhimik Prykarpattia", a (
subsidiary of
Ukrnafta
Ukrnafta is a Ukrainian oil and natural gas extracting company, the largest producer of oil and gas in the country. Ukrnafta is also an operator of a gas filling station network in Ukraine nationwide.
In 2006, the company conducted some 91% of oil ...
) with whom the contract expires in 2013.
;Lodging
Lodging in the city is numerous. Among big hotels and motels there is a big variety of all kinds of lodging. Ivano-Frankivsk has one a four-star hotel
Park Hotel) and three three-star hotels
Nadia,
Auscoprut,
").
Streets
Full list of renamed streets
All street names reflecting the city's Soviet or Russian past have been returned to their former names, or given new names of national historic importance, or other non-controversial name. For example, Gagarin Street (connecting the city with its suburbs) became Vovchynets Street, Suvorov Street is now Harbar Street, and Soviet Street is Nezalezhnist Street (meaning Independence).
Around 100 other streets were renamed.
;Important transportation ''arteries''
*
Independence Street (vulytsya Nezalezhnosti) / Tysmenytsya Road (doroha Tysmenetska)
*Halych Road (vulytsya Halytska)
*Hetman Mazepa Street (vulytsya Hetmana Mazepy) / Krykhivtsi Road (doroha Krykhivetska)
*Yevhen Konovalets Road (vulytsya Yevhena Konovaltsya)
*Vovchynets Street (vulytsya Vovchynetska)
*Vasyl Stefanyk Shore Drive (naberezhna Vasylya Stefanyka)
Routes
The city of Ivano-Frankivsk is located on the intersection of three major national (Ukraine) routes: , , and . There also is one important regional route T09-06. All the H-routes eventually connect to .
* connects Ivano-Frankivsk with
Ternopil
Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...
. It starts at the intersection of Sichovi Striltsi Street and Halych Street - Hetman Mazepa Street. At this point the route connects to H-09. H-18 takes Sichovi Striltsi Street east where after couple of miles connects to Yevhen Konovalets Street (T09-06), passing which continues on, until merges into Nezalezhnist Street and heads towards the edge of the city eastward. Once beyond the city its name changes to Tysmenytsia Street (or Tysmenytsia Road) which heads straight to the city of
Tysmenytsia
Tysmenytsia ( uk, Ти́смениця, translit=Tysmenycia; pl, Tyśmienica) is a city in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Tysmenytsia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Uk ...
, not far from Ivano-Frnkivsk.
* is actually of an international level, coming through the city from
Stryi (
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a relational adjective—in English translating to a noun adjunct w ...
) and going to
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...
, passing on its way
Chernivtsi. Heading towards Ivano-Frankivsk from
Kalush as Kalush
Chaussée, after the village of Pavlivka west of the village of Uhryniv the route spurs three ways with one branch (southeast) continues on as Kalush
Chaussée merging with H-09 at the intersection with Halych Street - Horbachevsky Street and then continues as Fedkovych Street (H-09); and another one (southwest) comes around the city on the west side through the village of Pilissya and intersects H-09 south of the village of Drahormychany. Note that at this point for a short distance both routes use one and the same road. From there H-10 continues on independently towards
Chernivtsi crossing the T09-06 route near village of Cherniiv. One more branch H-10 (northeast) is very small and connects the H-10 spur point (northwest of Ivano-Frankivsk) with the village of Uhryniv and then comes back to the Kalush
Chaussée.
* is sort of a detour route that first travels south from
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...
to
Rakhiv
Rakhiv ( uk, Рахів, ; yi, ראַכעוו, hu, Rahó, ro, Rahău, rue, Рахово; see below) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Rakhiv Raion (district). Population: ...
and then turns west to
Mukacheve
Mukachevo ( uk, Мукачево, ; hu, Munkács; see name section) is a city in the valley of the Latorica river in Zakarpattia Oblast (province), in Western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of Mukachevo Raion (district), the city ...
. Through Ivano-Frankivsk H-09 makes a lot turns and changes its name using the local streets of the city. It comes to Ivano-Frankivsk from
Halych
Halych ( uk, Га́лич ; ro, Halici; pl, Halicz; russian: Га́лич, Galich; german: Halytsch, ''Halitsch'' or ''Galitsch''; yi, העליטש) is a historic city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The city gave its name to the P ...
by Halych Street (or Halych Road) to the intersection with Kalush
Chaussée - Fedkovych Street where it merges with H-10 and continues on turning southeast onto Fedkovych Street as H-09 and later as Halych Street. Once in the downtown H-09 swerves southwest and intersects Sichovi Striltsi Street that going eastward as the route H-18. After the intersection the street heads straight as Hetman Mazepa Street in the southwestern direction. After crossing Dovzhenko Street it leaves the city limits as Krykhivtsi Street (or Krykhivtsi Road). Upon leaving Krykhivtsi and passing Drahomyrchany on the east, H-09 makes a break in the route H-10 (mentioned above). After that H-09 heads southwest towards the city of
Nadvirna, on the way bypassing the town of
Bohorodchany
Bohorodchany ( uk, Богородча́ни, translit=Bohorodčany, ) is an urban-type settlement in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, several miles from Ivano-Frankivsk. It hosts the administration of Bohorodchany settlement hroma ...
.
*T09-06 is a regional route that runs within the
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. It is a direct road from the Ivano-Frankivsk city to the
Nadvirna city unlike H-09, with the final destination being the village of Bystrytsia. T09-06 starts at the intersection of Sichovi Striltsi Street and Konovalets Street heading directly south onto Konovalets Street (or Konovalets Road). It leaves the city west of the Khryplyn village before crossing one of the Bystrytsia rivers. Shortly T09-06 also crosses the H-10 route continuing south.
Rural-urban fringe districts
As a lot of regional centers in
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
and the former
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
, Ivano-Frankivsk is also notorious for its
rural-urban fringe panel building
Panel buildings may refer to buildings of one of the following types:
*Built of structural insulated panels
*Built of pre-fabricated concrete blocks, named differently in various countries.
*Large Panel System building, often called Plattenbau ...
residential districts.
* BAM
* Kaskad
* Positron
* Budivelnykiv
City's industries
List of companies (official website);Extracting
* Ivano-Frankivsk Specialized
open-pit mining
Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a borrow.
This form of mini ...
;Energy
* Open joint-stock company “Prykarpattyaoblenergo”
www.oe.if.ua
* Government urban enterprise "Ivano-Frankivskteplokomunenergo"
www.tke.if.ua
* Ivano-Frankivskgaz
www.gaz.if.ua, part of State Company "Gaz of Ukraine"
;Utilities
* KP Ivano-Frankivskvodoekotekhprom
vodokanal.if.ua serving cities of Ivano-Frankivsk,
Tysmenytsya and adjacent villages
** Cherniiv Complex of Water-purification Structures
** Water-pump stations: "Khryplyn", "Berehova", "Kruhla"
** Station of biomechanical purification (Yamnytsya village)
;Khryplyn Investment-Industrial Zone
The industrial zone is located just east of Ivano-Frankivsk across Bystrytsia river in the village of
Khryplyn. There is a well established railroad station. In 2007–2008 the infrastructure of the area was improved heavily with an installation of additional pipelines of water and gas as well as electrification and road improvement.
* "Ukrainska pobutova tekhnika" (Ukrainian Home Appliances)
* "
Tyco Electronics
TE Connectivity is an American Swiss-domiciled technology company that designs and manufactures connectors and sensors for several industries, such as automotive, industrial equipment, data communication systems, aerospace, defense, medical, o ...
Ukraine Ltd."
* OJSC "Pressmash"
* "Hyrych"
* OJSC "Budivelni materialy" (Construction materials)
;Construction and Architecture
* "Comfortbud" (Lviv) along with "Beton Group" concrete producing factories
www.comfortbud.ua
* "Energobud" (Ivano-Frankivsk)
www.energobud.net
* "Ekstim" (Ivano-Frankivsk)
extim.com.ua
* "Prykarpatspetsbud"
* "Prykarpatzhytlobud"
* OJSC "Zhytlobud"
* Build-investment firm «Skol»
skolframe.com.ua
* Architecture Company "Atelie Arkhitektury" (Ivano-Frankivsk)
;Machine-building
* Ivano-Frankivsk Locomotive Repair Plant
Official website
* OJSC "Ivano-Frankivsk Valve Plant"
Economical profile of the company for 2004
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* "Avtolyvmash"
* "Rodon"
* "Promprylad" (Industrial instruments)
;Food-producing
The city has numerous food-producing factories, liquor factory, several bakeries, others.
;Strategical
* 63rd Boiling and Welding Plant
City's radio, television, press media
;Press
* ''"Reporter"'' - Ivano-Frankivsk weekly
www.report.if.ua
* ''"Halytsky Korrespondent"'' - a social-political weekly
gk-press.if.ua
* ''"Halychyna"'' - regional newspaper
www.galychyna.if.ua
;Radio
* ''"Zakhidny Polyus (104.3 FM)"'' - city's radio
1043.com.ua
* ''"Vezha (107 FM)"'' - city's radio
www.vezha.org
;Television
* ''"Ivano-Frankivsk ODTRK"'' - regional State Tele and Radio Company
odtrk.if.ua
)
* ''"3-Studia"'' - regional Tele and Radio Company
www.studio3.com.ua
* ''"Halychyna"'' - regional television
www.galtv.if.ua
Administration
Both city and oblast administrations as well as the regional council are all located in a massive white building on the Hrushevsky Street locally known as Bily Dim or Bily Budynok. In front of the building is a big open space bordered by Shpytalna Street on the north-east, Hrushevsky Street on the south-east, and Melnychuk Street on the south-west. Next to the building is located a memorial to the Unification of the Western Ukraine with the rest of Ukraine. The main feature of the memorial is a tall marble stele, on both sides of which are located statues: '' Kameniar'' (west) and ''Kobzar
A ''kobzar'' ( ua, кобзар, pl. kobzari ua, кобзарі) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed bandura or kobza.
Tradition
Kobzars were often blind and became predominantly so b ...
'' (east).
City's Council
The city's council currently consists of 60 deputies. The political representation
Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy-making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens. This definition of political representation is consistent with a wide variety of vie ...
of the V convocation by political bloks was elected as such: Our Ukraine 22 ( Our Ukraine 9, Rukh 8, United Centre
Andriy Baloha's Team ( uk, Команда Андрія Балоги, Komanda Andriya Balohy; formerly United Centre) is a Ukrainian political party. It is an offspring of Our Ukraine. Legally, Andriy Baloha's Team is the successor of the Party o ...
1, Industrialists and Entrepreneurs 2, no affiliation 2), BYuT
The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc ( uk, Блок Юлії Тимошенко, БЮТ; Blok Yuliyi Tymoshenko, BYuT) was the name of the bloc of political parties in Ukraine led by Yulia Tymoshenko since 2001. In November 2011, the participation of bloc ...
17 ( Batkivschyna 14, USDP 2, no affiliation 1), Ukrainian People's Party 14 ( UPP 3, CUN 1, United Centre
Andriy Baloha's Team ( uk, Команда Андрія Балоги, Komanda Andriya Balohy; formerly United Centre) is a Ukrainian political party. It is an offspring of Our Ukraine. Legally, Andriy Baloha's Team is the successor of the Party o ...
3, Sobor 1, no affiliation 6), Party of Regions 4 (Party of Regions
The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of U ...
3, no affiliation 1), PORA 3 (PORA
Pora! ( uk, Пора!, Russian: Пора!), meaning “''It's time!”'' in both Ukrainian and Russian, is a civic youth organization (Black Pora!) and political party in Ukraine ( Yellow Pora!) espousing nonviolent resistance and advocating i ...
2, no affiliation 1).
Recent city mayors
* Bohdan Borovych ( OUN) July 1994 – June 1998
* Zinoviy Shkutiak ( Our Ukraine) March 1998 – March 26, 2006
* Viktor Anushkevychus (UPP) March 26, 2006 – December 1, 2015
* Ruslan Martcinkiv ( Svoboda) December 1, 2015 – present
Administrative division
References
{{Authority control
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast