Brody
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Brody is a city
City
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 in the Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv.-History:The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939...

 (province
Oblast
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) of western Ukraine
Ukraine
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. It is the administrative center
Capital City
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 of the Brody Raion (district
Raion
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), and is located in the valley of the upper Styr River, approximately 90 kilometres northeast of the oblast capital, Lviv
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

. As of 2004, its population is 23,239.

Brody is the junction of the Druzhba
Druzhba pipeline
The Druzhba pipeline is the world's longest oil pipeline and in fact one of the biggest oil pipeline networks in the world. It carries oil some from the eastern part of the European Russia to points in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Germany...

and Odessa-Brody oil pipeline
Pipeline transport
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s.
The first mention of a settlement on the site of Brody is dated 1084 (Instructions by Volodymyr Monomach).
 
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