Industrial city located within the Drohobych-Boryslav Agglomeration. Former major center of oil industry in eastern Galicia, and also in II RP ( POLAND) in the interwar period. Located between picturesque mountains town, is located on the pretty large stocks of crude oil, natural gas and ozokerite. For lovers of industry-related facts, history and geography of the chemical industry, especially petrochemical - invariably go to the Boryslav !!! The town is located on the "Tourist Trail Petroleum" in direct [...]

After the revolutionary invention of the kerosene lamp in 1853 year by the Polish chemist and entrepreneur of Armenian origin Ignatius Lukaszewicz, began to appreciate the benefits, offered by the petroleum. It was the kind of impulse, which gave rise to the oil industry in the area of ​​Galicia then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Oil Route, is an international tourist trail which leads through areas of Podkarpackie oil and gas industry in Poland and Ukraine, through the historic region – Galicia. Leads, inter alia, by such [...]

Borysławski Oil and Gas Industrial Region - the center of intensive exploitation of oil and natural gas. Boryslav the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, attracted many investors from Europe, because it had a very productive oil and gas deposits. In addition to the energy is extracted in Borysław ozokerite (natural wax), that is a very valuable raw material in [...]