Stryi

Stryi Стрий
City
Licence plate		BC (before 2004: ТА,ТВ,ТН,ТС)
Website	http://stryi-rada.gov.ua/index.php

Stryi (

Name

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. ^{[note 1]} 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

Stryi was mentioned for the first time in 1385 (see:

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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 century due to support from the Polish king John III Sobieski. It also was destroyed during one of the Tatars raids in 1523. The city was later rebuilt and included a castle for defense purposes which later in the 18th century was demounted by the Austrian authorities. In 1634 the city was destroyed once again by another Tatar raid. In times of the Khmelnytsky Uprising the Cossack Hetmanate army was reinforced here by the Hungarian regiments of prince Rákóczi of Transylvania. After the partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772 the city became a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (see: Partitions of Poland). During the revolutionary times in the empire the Ruthenian Council was created in the city in 1848. During 1872-1875 the city was connected to a railroad network. Its first wooden train station was built in 1875. At this time it started to industrialize. Among the most influencing citizens of the city were Doctor Yevhen Olesnytsky, Father Oleksa Bobykevych, and Father O.Nyzhankivsky.

In 1886 a large fire burned almost the entire city to the ground. From October 1914 to May 1915 Stryi was occupied by the

), a few kilometres south of Stryi in which some 33,000 Russian soldiers perished.

On November 1, 1918, an armed uprising took place in the city, after which it became a part of the

, its population consisted of 35.6% Jews, 34.5% Poles, 28% Ukrainians and 1.6% Germans.

In July 1941, the Nazis conquered 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 Nazis, with the assistance of the Ukrainian police, murdered most of the town's 11,000 Jews in a nearby forest or rounded them up to be sent to Belzec extermination camp.^[5] Of a prewar population of 11,000, only a few Jews survived.

During the

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Stryi is the first city in Ukraine to display the Ukrainian national flag, when it was hoisted at the Stryi city hall on 14 March 1990, before the December 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.^{[citation needed]}

Recent history

On April 9, 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.^[6][7]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1843 8,000 —     1880 12,600 +57.5% 1900 22,600 +79.4% 1910 27,400 +21.2% 1931 30,500 +11.3% 1959 36,200 +18.7%

Year Pop. ±% 1970 48,000 +32.6% 1976 55,000 +14.6% 1989 67,000 +21.8% 2001 63,000 −6.0% 2006 61,700 −2.1%

Notable people

Notable people born in Stryi include the following:

• Anna Muzychuk (born 1990), Ukrainian chess player
• Mariya Muzychuk (born 1992), Ukrainian chess player
• Sviatoslav Shevchuk (born 1970), Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
• Vitaliy Antonov (born 1962), Ukrainian businessman
• Louis Begley (born 1933), Polish-American novelist
• Solomon J. Buchsbaum (1929–1993), Polish-American physicist
• Włodzimierz Godłowski (1900–1940), Polish neurologist
• Benedykt Halicz (1903–1997), Polish biologist
• Artem Hromov (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer
• Antoni (Illiashewicz) (born n.1700-1775), orth. bishop of Vjatka and Velikoperm, Russia
• Julia Keilowa (1902–1943), Polish designer
• Michael Kmit (1910–1981), Australian painter
• Jan Kociniak (1937–2007), Polish actor
• Józef Koffler (1896–1941), Polish composer
• Polish Army
• Kornel Makuszyński (1884–1953), Polish writer
• Zbigniew Messner (1929–2014), Prime Minister of Poland 1985–88
• Kazimierz Nowak (1897–1937), Polish traveller
• Taras Petrivskyi (born 1984), Ukrainian footballer
• Pola Stout (1902–1984), American interior and textile designer
• Julian Stryjkowski (1905–1996), Polish writer
• Zygmunt Szendzielarz (1910–1951), commandant of the Home Army
• Ihor Tenyukh (born 1958), Ukrainian admiral
• Andriy Tlumak (born 1979), Ukrainian footballer
• Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894–1969), Polish writer, poet
• Zygmunt Wojciechowski (1900–1955), Polish historian

Twin towns – sister cities

Stryi is twinned with:^[8]

Other forms of cooperation

Notes

Sources

1. ^ "Стрыйская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
2. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
3. ^ From the Stryi-city unofficial website (in Ukrainian)
4. ^ "History of Stryi". stryy.com.ua. 2008-06-01.^{[permanent dead link]}
5. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7
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6. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
7. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
8. ^ "Міста-побратими міста Стрия". stryi-rada.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Stryi. Retrieved 2020-03-30.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stryi.

• Stryi City Council official web-site
• Stryi Unofficial web-site
• ShtetLinks page - Stryy
• (in Polish) Stryj (Stryi) in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1890)

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