Truskavets

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City in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

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::summary City in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine ::

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nameTruskavets
native_nameТрускавець
settlement_typeCity
image_skylineПішохідний проспект в Трускавці.jpg
image_captionFrom left to right: Mirotel Resort SPA, Villa Goplana, and Villa Postiy
image_shieldCoat of Arms of Truskavets.svg
image_flagFlag of Truskavets.svg
shield_size110px
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1Oblast
subdivision_name1Lviv Oblast
subdivision_type2Raion
subdivision_name2Drohobych Raion
area_total_km28
population_as_of2022
population_total28287
population_density_km2auto
timezoneEET
utc_offset+2
timezone_DSTEEST
utc_offset_DST+3
pushpin_mapUkraine Lviv Oblast#Ukraine
coordinates
postal_code_typePostal code
postal_code82200
area_code+380-3247
websitehttps://truskavets.ua/en/
subdivision_type3Hromada
subdivision_name3Truskavets urban hromada
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Truskavets (, ; ) is a city in Drohobych Raion, western Ukraine's Lviv Oblast (region), near the border with Poland. It hosts the administration of Truskavets urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approximately

Truskavets is famous for its mineral springs, which have made it one of Ukraine's great resorts. For most visitors the primary goal is consuming the various 'local waters.' The most famous is the naphtha and sulfur-scented, slightly saline 'Naftusia.' The town lies in an attractive little valley in the Carpathian foothills and is easily reached from Lviv by bus or train. The vast majority of tourists who come to Truskavets are Ukrainian or Belarusian.

The modern coat of arms of the city depicts a goose with raised wings and a branch in its beak. According to history, it symbolizes vigilance, kindness and health.

In 2000, a special economic zone (SEZ) was established in Truskavets for the period of 20 years. Known as "Kurortopolis Truskavets", the SEZ offered various tax privileges for businesses and investors. Some 13 investment projects were approved under its framework, with the majority focusing on health and medical treatment.

Name

The origin of the city's name is still debated by historians. Most researchers believe that the word 'Truskavets' comes from the Old East Slavic name Trushko, or Trusko, which derived to Truskovich, and eventually to Truskavets.

According to another version, the name of the city was influenced by the Lithuanian language. In Lithuanian, druska means salt, and Prykarpattia is a well-known center of salt production. In favor of this option, the close interstate relations of the Galicia-Volhynia Principality and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 12th–15th centuries testify.

The third version traces the origin of the word to the dialect word trusok or trusk (small brush, dry wood chips) — cf. a Polish toponym Truskolyasy (forests where coniferous needles attacked), which refers to several villages in Poland.

There is also a popular but erroneous version that Truskavets is a modified form of the Polish word truskawka (strawberry, Latin Fragaria ananassa). Strawberries of this type appeared in Europe only after 1714 and were brought from Chile by the French officer Fresier, while the name of the city first appears in the 15th century. Instead, the Polish name for the European strawberry species Fragaria moschata is poziomka.

History

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Трускавець.Вілла_"Гопляна".jpg" caption="Villa Goplana, home of Rajmund Jarosz, owner of the spa from 1911 to 1937"] ::

Truskavets, then known as Truskawiec, was first mentioned in 1469. The Polish royal doctor Wojciech Oczko was the first to describe local waters in 1578. In 1898, a monument to Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz, in the 100th anniversary of his birth, was unveiled in the spa park. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Henryk_Poddębski_-Truskawiec(131-8323).jpg" caption="Truskavets in the 1930s"] ::

Following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Polish–Ukrainian War and the Polish–Soviet War, Truskawiec became part of Poland again. Next to Krynica-Zdrój, it was the most visited and most popular resort in Poland. A number of notable Polish personalities visited Truskawiec during that era, including politicians (Stanisław Wojciechowski, Józef Piłsudski, Wincenty Witos, Ignacy Daszyński), artists (Eugeniusz Bodo, Adolf Dymsza, Julian Tuwim, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, Zofia Nałkowska, Marian Hemar, Hanka Ordonówna, Jan Kiepura, Zofia Batycka, Antoni Słonimski), athletes (Stanisława Walasiewicz, Halina Konopacka, Janusz Kusociński) and Generals Stanisław Maczek and Kazimierz Sosnkowski. Numerous guests from abroad came there as well. In 1935, the Prime Minister and future president of Estonia Konstantin Päts visited the spa. Rajmund Jarosz, who was the owner of the spa since 1911, founded the Museum of Natural History (Muzeum Przyrodnicze) and a salt-sulfur pool, later destroyed during World War II. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Truskawiec.jpg" caption="A salt-sulfur pool in the 1930s, destroyed during World War II"] ::

On August 29, 1931, Vasyl Bilas and Dmytro Danylyshyn, two members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, assassinated Tadeusz Hołówko, a Polish cabinet minister and known advocate of Polish-Ukrainian rapprochement vacationing in Truskawiec. This caused an increase in Polish-Ukrainian tension, which culminated in the Ukrainian genocide of Poles in 1943.

After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, the spa was transformed into a sanatorium for Red Army soldiers. From 1941 to 1944 it was under German occupation, and after 1944 under Soviet occupation again. Under the Potsdam Agreement of 1945, it was taken from Poland and annexed by the Soviet Union. Under Soviet rule, most of the historic buildings were destroyed and replaced with typical Soviet architecture.

In 2008, the Adam Mickiewicz monument, which survived World War II and Soviet rule, was renovated.

Until 18 July 2020, Truskavets was incorporated as a city of oblast significance. 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 Truskavets was merged into Drohobych Raion.

Truskavets is part of the European Route of Historic Thermal Towns.

Notable people

Twin towns

Truskavets is twinned with:

Gallery

File:Truskavets. Trading House..JPG|Trading House File:Truskavets3.JPG|Old Town Hall File:Truskavets77.jpg|Spa Rehabilitation Center File:Truskavets 045.jpg|Downtown File:Truskavets 046.jpg|City hall File:Truskavets 134.jpg|Residential building File:Truskavets 099.jpg|St. Nicholas Church File:Трускавець Шевченка 7 Анастасія 1.jpg|Villa Anastasia File:Трускавець Вілла Гопляна.JPG|Villa Goplana, housing the City Museum File:Mickiewicz Truskavets.JPG|Adam Mickiewicz statue in Truskavets city park File:Курортний парк 009.JPG|Church of the Assumption and John Paul II statue File:Vasily Bilas and Dmytro Danylyshyn Monument in Truskavets.JPG|Monument to Vasyl Bilas and Dmytro Danylyshyn

References

Sources

  • An account of the town and neighborhood including Drohobycz along with its relationship to this author and his friends like other Polish writers such as Zofia Nałkowska and Witkacy.

References

  1. "Трускавецкая городская громада". Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. [http://www.bizpartners-ukraine.org/eng/RegionsPotential/Lviv/#more Business Cooperation with Ukraine. Regions Potential. Lviv Region ]. Retrieved on 2008-12-26.
  3. "About the City" ][[File:Flag of Ukraine.svg. border. 8px]]{{fontcolor. Green. (in [[Ukrainian language. {{fontcolor. Green. Ukrainian]]). Retrieved on 2008-12-26.
  4. Янко М. Т. Топонімічний словник-довідник Української РСР. К., 1973, с. 151
  5. Koper, Mariusz. (2015). "Василь Вікторович Лучик, Етимологічний словник топонімів України, Київ: Видавничий центр «Академія» 2014". Roczniki Humanistyczne.
  6. At that time the village was the property of the Kings of Poland, and was located in the [[Ruthenian Voivodeship]] in the [[Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown. Lesser Poland Province]] of the [[Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. Polish Crown]] until the [[First Partition of Poland]] in 1772, when it fell to [[Habsburg monarchy. Austria]]. First baths were opened here in 1827. In 1836, Józef Micewski, with support of [[Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski. Poles]], in 1880 the spa became the property of a company whose chairman was [[Adam Stanisław Sapieha]], and then it was expanded.Ireneusz Jasiuk, ''Truskawiec - dzieje kresowego uzdrowiska na tle różnorodności kulturowej i etnicznej Małopolski Wschodniej'', published in "Acta Humana” no. 8, 2017, p. 233-234 (in Polish)
  7. "Truskawiec - Historia miejscowości".
  8. Cezary Rudziński. (16 April 2015). "Truskawiec. Dzieje uzdrowiska u podnóża Gorganów".
  9. (11 January 2009). "Truskawiec - kurort marzeń".
  10. (2020-07-18). "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.".
  11. "Нові райони: карти + склад". Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  12. "Truskavets Ukraine".
  13. Шушківський, А. І.. "Бобанич Тарас Миколайович". Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України.
  14. (2008). "Jasło Official Website – "Współpraca Międzynarodowa Jasła" (Jasło's Twin Towns)". [[File:Flag of Poland.svg.

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