Drohobych

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**Drohobych**
Image:Drogobych-COA.gif
Oblast'	Lviv Oblast
Population Population density	77,200 (2004) ??? /km²
Area	44.5 km²
First Mentioned City rights	1387 1422
Area code	+(380) 3244
Latitude Longitude	Template:Coor dm

Drohobych (Template:Lang-ua; Template:Lang-pl, Template:Lang-de; Template:Lang-ru; Yiddish: דראָביטש) is a city in western Ukraine within the Lviv Oblast. As of 2004, its population is 77,200.

Industries currently based in the city include oil-refineries, chemicals, machinery, metallurgy, and food processing.

1 History
2 Demographics
3 People
4 External link

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History

Drohobych is first mentioned in 1387, and thereafter was part of Poland. The city received Magdeburg rights in 1422. The 1772 partition of Poland gave Drohobycz to Austria. Following World War I, the city was returned to Poland, but with World War II, the city became part of the Soviet Ukraine of the USSR.

Famous citizens include Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), a Polish writer and painter of Jewish origins. He was killed in the Drohobycz ghetto.

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Demographics

The population of Drohobych throughout the years was:

1931 - 32,300 inhabitants
1959 - 42,000 inhabitants
1970 - 56,000 inhabitants
2001 - 79,000 inhabitants

In 1869, of the town's 16,880 inhabitants 28.7% were Ukrainian, 23.2% were Polish or Roman Catholic, and 47.7% were Jewish; in 1939, when the population was 34,600, the respective figures were 26.3%, 33.2%, and 39.9%. By 1959 Ukrainians constituted 70% of the town's population, Russians 22%, Poles 3%, and Jews 2%. Encyclopedia of Ukraine.

In 1931, the total population of the Drohobych district was 194,456, distributed among different languages: Genealogy of Halychyna/Eastern Galicia.