Balneological resort named. Omelian Stocki Skhidnycia / Східниця – located 10 km south-west of the town Boryslav in the area of Drohobych ​​Agglomeration. Known, young resort since 1976 has the status of a state resort. Its fame owes existence 38 sources and 17 mineral water wells of varying mineralogical composition. Among them is the most valuable "Naftusya" / "Нафтуся", in the nearby Truskavets was extracted for therapeutic purposes in the first half of the 19th [...]

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 [...]

The area of ​​the western border of Ukraine are bound by many, outstanding: writers, poets, scientists, philosophers, politicians, revolutionaries and artists, recognized both in Poland, Ukraine and around the World. This article is dedicated just to them. Their work and activities contribute to the development of our Region, "Our Little Homeland", because we want to convey a few words about their lives, activity, achievement and contribution in our common [...]