Tysmenytsia is a city, the administrative center of the Tysmenytsia Raion (district

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...

) in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. As is the case with most other oblasts of Ukraine this region has the same name as its administrative center – which was renamed by the Soviets after the Ukrainian writer, nationalist...

 of western Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. In 1900 as part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria was a crownland of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, and Austria–Hungary from 1772 to 1918 .This historical region in eastern Central Europe is currently divided between Poland and Ukraine...

, Tysmenytsia was in Tłumacz powiat.

Overview

The city is famous for its fur factory "Tysmenytsia" that was established back in 1891. In the Soviet times the factory was the fourth major factory within the fur industry of the Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...

. On March 28, 1982 Tysmenytsia became an administrative center of the former Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. Since then the name of raion was changed correspondingly to its administrative center - Tysmenytsia.

The city is also located in very close vicinity to the administrative center of Prykarpattia

Prykarpattia

Prykarpattia is the Ukrainian geographical term for a historical area of Central Europe, at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, in modern Ukraine...

, Ivano-Frankivsk

Ivano-Frankivsk

Ivano-Frankivsk is a historic city located in the western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast, municipality....

. It has a population 9,600 people according to the Ukrainian Census (2001)

Ukrainian Census (2001)

The first Ukrainian Census was carried out by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989....

.

People

• Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox saint was born in Tysmenytsia.
• Kost Levytsky
  Kost Levytsky
  Kost Levytsky was a Ukrainian politician. He was a founder of the Ukrainian National Democratic movement and the leader of the State Representative Body of the Ukrainian government declared on June 30, 1941-Biography:...
  
   Ukrainian politician
• Henry Roth
  Henry Roth
  Henry Roth was an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Roth was born in Tysmenitz near Stanislaviv, Galicia, Austro-Hungary...
  
  , Jewish American writer
• Oleh Lysheha
  Oleh Lysheha
  Oleh Lysheha is a Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator and intellectual. Lysheha entered Lviv University in 1968, where during his last year, he was expelled for his participation in an "unofficial" literary circle, Lviv Bohema. As punishment, Lysheha was drafted into the Soviet army and...
  
  , Ukrainian poet, currently lives in Tysmenytsia.

Transport

Tysmenytsya can be reached by train, bus or by plane to Ivano-Frankivsk, which is about 20 minutes by bus from from the city.

Local orientation
Regional orientation

External links

• County of Tyśmienica (English version)
• Tysmienica Yizkor book
• Photographs of Jewish sites in Tysmenytsia in Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina

• MSN Map