DROHOBYCH

drôˌkôbĭchˈ, Pol. Drohobycz, Rus. Drogobych, city (1989 pop. 78,000), Lviv region, W Ukraine, in the N Carpathian foothills. The major petroleum-refining center of the Boryslav oil field, it is linked by an oil pipeline with Boryslav and a natural gas pipeline with Dashava. An old Ukrainian settlement, Drohobych belonged to Kievan Rus until the 14th cent., when it passed to Poland. It was taken by Austria in 1772 but reverted to Poland in 1919; in 1939 it was included in Ukraine.

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books on: Drohobych  - 15 results

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The Second Soviet Republic: The Ukraine after World War II
Book by Yaroslav Bilinsky; Rutgers University Press, 1964
Subjects: Nationalism--Ukraine, Ukraine--History
...Party leadership in the provinces of Drohobych, Stanyslaviv, Ternopil, Volhynia...Committees of Town and District Soviets in the Drohobych Province that is, among the town mayors...data for one Western Ukrainian province Drohobych 38 and some indirect evidence establishment...
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Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia - Vol. 1
Book by Volodymyr E. KubijovyČ; University of Toronto Press, 1963
Subjects: Ukraine--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
...boundaries of the counties of Drobobych and Turka leaving Drohobych and Boryslav on the Polish side and Stryi on the Ukrainian...territory of Galicia, including the capital Lviv and the Drohobych- Boryslav oil fields see Fig. 478 . However, the Poles...
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Ukraine and Russia: A History of the Economic Relations between Ukraine and Russia, 1654-1917
Book by Konstantyn Kononenko; Marquette University Press, 1958
Subjects: Ukraine--Economic Conditions
...foothills of Western Ukraine, oil has been extracted for a long time. There are also considerable oil deposits in the regions of Drohobych, Boryslav, and Stanyslaviv. Ukraine is no less endowed with ores, primarily iron and manganese. In the region of Kryvyi...
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A Guide to the Soviet Union
Book by William M. Mandel; The Dial Press, 1946
Subjects: Russia--Civilization, Soviet Union--Economic Policy--1917-, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--1917-1945, Soviet Union--History--1917-
...of Commerce . 444 Don. river. 8 . 132 , 357 Don Cossacks, 74 Donbass, 17 , 88 , 134 , 333 , 335 , 339 , 848. 854, 855,869 Dospayeva, Baigumas, 62 "Draft of a Plan of Scientific nical Work" Lenin , 296 Drohobych oil wells, 348
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The Ukrainian Diaspora
Book by Vic Satzewich; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Ukraine--Emigration And Immigration--History, Ukrainians--Foreign Countries--Social Conditions
...the estates of the nobility, at odd jobs in surrounding villages and towns, or in the oil and mineral wax industries near Drohobych and Boryslav Himka, 1982:17 . Middle-stratum peasants who had more resources but who still had to supplement their household...
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journal articles on: Drohobych  - 4 results

 
 
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Polin: Our Goals and Achievements
Journal article by Anthony Polonsky; European Judaism, Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: College faculty, College teachers
...no surprise that it was one of the publishing sensations of 1998. Wilhelm Dichter came to writing late. Born in 1935 in Drohobych, he survived the war, in which his father died, on Aryan papers with his mother. After the war he moved with his mother...
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Clinton Administration Policy Ties Economic Aid to Foreign Policy Goals
Journal article by David Madeo; Law and Policy in International Business, Vol. 25, 1994
Subjects: Economic assistance--Political aspects, International relations--Economic aspects, Joint ventures--Finance, United States. Overseas Private Investment Corp.--Analysis
...1994). (27.) Id. (28.) The U.S. firm Terra Vac plans to recover oil, which leaked over several years from the Drohobych Refinery, and resell it to the refinery, using payments for additional cleanup. U.S. Firm Awarded Ukranian Environmental...
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Education Reform in Slovenia and Ukraine
Journal article by Sonja Rutar, Kateryna Kotenko, Tetyana Lohvynenko, Joan Moyer; Childhood Education, Vol. 79, 2003
Subjects: Democratization, Educational reform--Planning, Kotenko, Kateryna--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Lohvynenko, Tetyana--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Rutar, Sonja--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Slovenia--Social aspects, Slovenia--Social policy, Ukraine--Social aspects, Ukraine--Social policy
...Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Kateryna Kotenko was Director of the Educational Research Center, Lviv, Ukraine. Tetyana Lohvynenko is Professor of Pedagogy at Ivan Franko Teacher Training Institute, Drohobych, Ukraine.
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Transmogrifying Bruno Schulz's Universe: Double Edge Theatre's Republic of Dreams
Journal article by Megan Shea; TheatreForum, 2008
...quarter, he shot him, leaving his body in the street on Black Thursday-a day when the SS nearly wiped out the town of Drohobych (Wieniewska xi). Schulzs writing focused on his childhood and his relationship with his mother and especially his father...


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magazine articles on: Drohobych  - 1 result

 
 
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Global Community
Magazine article by Christopher Connell; International Educator, Vol. 19, January 2010
Subjects: College students, Colleges & universities, Community colleges, Higher education, Tuition
...introduced a new slide to a lecture teaching Iowa students how to use software tools. "It showed the little town called Drohobych where we worked," said Jeff Armstrong, an Eastern Iowa administrator. "She was teaching them how to use PowerPoint...


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encyclopedia articles on: Drohobych  - 5 results

 
 
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Drohobych
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DROHOBYCH dro kobich , Pol. Drohobycz, Rus. Drogobych, city (1989 pop. 78...and a natural gas pipeline with Dashava. An old Ukrainian settlement, Drohobych belonged to Kievan Rus until the 14th cent., when it passed to Poland...
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Schulz, Bruno
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...reflections on life in the modest Jewish quarter of Drohobycz (now Drohobych, Ukraine), where he was born and lived. Both his fiction...in 2001 fragments of a Schulz mural were discovered in a Drohobych building, parts of which were removed by Israeli agents to...
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Galicia , Historic Region, Poland and Ukraine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ivano-Frankivsk and Tarnopol oblasts. Mainly agricultural, Galicia also has mineral resources, notably oil wells around Drohobych and Boryslav, in Ukraine, and in Rzeszow prov., in Poland. Originally the duchy of Halych (Galich), it was united...
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Stryy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Stryy River (a tributary of the Dniester) and in the Carpathian foothills. It is a major rail junction and a center of the Drohobych oil region. The economy depends on machine building, engineering, and various light industries. An old Ukrainian settlement...
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Ukraine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...principal Ukrainian port on the Black Sea. Although mainly agricultural, W Ukraine has significant petroleum centers at Drohobych and Boryslav, natural gas at Dashava, coal industries at Novovolynsk, and rich salt deposits. Lviv is the cultural center...


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