Ivano-Frankivsk is an important railway and highway junction, the second largest city in Galicia.
It is situated in the western part of Ukraine in very picturesque surroundings near the confluence of the Bystrytsia-Nadvirnianska and Bystrytsia-Solotvynska, which are the tributaries of the Bystrytsia. The total area of the city is 3890 hectars.
It was called Stanislav until 1962. Its population is 233000. Ukrainians constitute the most part of the population.They care about the national culture and their language.
Among the city's architectural monuments are the city hall (now the regional museum, rebuilt in 1870), the former Jesuit college and church, the former Armenian baroque church with two steeples. There are a lot of monuments in the city.
They are the monuments to Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko and Adam Mytskevytch.
Tourists can visit different museums.
There are such theaters in Ivano-Frankivsk,like Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre, a puppet theatre, a region philharmonic society, different clubs and cinemas.
The main educational institutions in Ivano-Frankivsk are the institutes of pedagogy, medicine, petroleum and gas. The city's enterprises produce electronical equipment, compression machinery. The city is famous for the industrial complex «Carpathpressmash». Light industry, textile industry and food processing are also developed there.
There is a railway station, bus station and an airport in the city. Railway connects the city with all other cities of Ukraine and other countries.
Ivano-Frankivsk is a very green city.
It has many parks and a 38 hectars artificial lake.
