Ivano-Frankivsk

It was built in the mid-17th century as a private fortress of the Potocki family. With the partition of Poland in 1772, Ivano-Frankivsk was passed to the Habsburg Empire, after which it became the property of the State authorities of the Austrian Empire. It was during that time that the fortress was transformed into one of the most prominent cities at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. After World War I, for a short stint it served as temporary capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, after the fall of which Stanisławów became part of the Second Polish Republic. At the dawn of World War II, the city was annexed by the Soviet Union, only to be occupied by Nazi Germany two years later. With the liberation of Ukraine in 1944, a Soviet regime was established in the city for the next 45 years. A city visitor may find elements of various cultures intertwined within Ivano-Frankivsk, the Polish Rathaus, the Austrian city's business center, the Soviet panel multi-storied residential apartment buildings at the city's urban-rural fringe, and others.
The city is in the Carpathian region northeast of the mountain range, sitting approximately 120 m above mean sea level.

Climate

The climate is moderate continental with warm summers (in Jul the record high 37.1°C), and fairly cold winters (in dec the record low−35.7°C). There are 60 snowy days per year.

By plane

• Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport

  phone: +380 342 598037, +380 342 598046
  address: Str. Yevgenia Konovaltsya (ул. Евгения Коновальца), 264А
  It has connections with flights to Kiev, Moscow (Domodedovo) and Lviv, it is however relatively small. The bigger airport nearby is in Lviv.

By train

• Railway station

  phone: +380 342 592223, +380 342 224774
  address: Pryvokzal'na sq. (Привокзальна пл). 3
  From Ivano-Frankivsk you can get to the Kyiv, Moscow, Minsk, Bucharest, Varna and Sofia by direct trains. Trains from Lviv (where you can connect to Poland) or Chernivtsi (where you can connect to Romania).

By bus

• Bus station No.1

  phone: +380 342 750830
  address: Street Zaliznychna (Вулиця Залізнична), 30
  Timetable , buses to Chernivtsi (24 грн, 4 hr, at least 3 daily). Tickets

• Bus station No.2

  phone: +380 342 583704
  address: Street Horbachevskoho (Вулиця Горбачевського), 2

• Bus station No.3

  phone: +380 342 753547
  address: Street Mazepy Het'mana, 166

• Bus station No.4

  phone: +380 342 554399
  address: Street Junosty, 1

The city centre is manageable by foot but there is an extensive network of public transport including buses, trolleybuses, and taxis. There are nine trolleybus routes and about 52 for regular buses. Some of the routes run beyond the city into nearby villages. Those wishing to venture outside of the city by car may want to use a more robust vehicle such as a 4 by 4 as roads in the local area are extremely degraded and incomparable to western roads.
All street names reflecting the city's Soviet or Russian past have been returned to their former names, or given new names of national historic importance, or other non-controversial names. For example, Gagarin Street (connecting the city with its suburbs) became Vovchynets Street, Suvorov Street is now Harbar Street, and Soviet Street is Nezalezhnist (Independence) Street. Around 100 other streets were renamed. The seven main city squares Viche Maidan, Market Square, Sheptytsky Square
Pryvokzalna Square, Mickiewicz Square (Mickiewicz Park), Liberation Square, European Square.

• Townhall

  phone: +380 342 556515
  address: Hrushevskovo (вул. Грушевського), 21
  Built in Art Deco style.

• City Brewery

• Jesuit College building

  address: Sheptytskoho sq., 21

• Stanislav fortress compound

  address: Fortechnyi lane
  Made in the form of regular hexagon (with a width of 400 m side) with additional bastions , redoubts and fort.

• White BuildingIt is the main administration building of Ivano-Frankivsk and the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. In front of the building there are two full-size sculptural monuments of Franko and Shevchenko.

• Battle of Grunwald monument– commemorating the defeat of the Teutonic Order in 1410

• Monument to Adam Mickiewicz

  address: Square Mickiewicz
  Built in 1930, it was reconstructed in 1989. It is on Adam Mickewicz Square next to a regional concert hall. It is the oldest surviving monument in the city and was built on 20 November 1898.

• Monument to Stepan Bandera

  address: European Square (Європейська пл.)
  Mase in 2009

• Palace complex of Pototskyis

  address: Shpytalna str.(Шпитальна вул.,),5
  Built 1672 – 1682.

Holy Places

• Church of the Holy Resurrection

  phone: +380 342 552931
  address: Maidan Sheptitskovo, (майд. Шептицького,) 6 or 22?
  Greek Catholic Cathedral. Former Jesuit church. Primitively his foundation was stopped up in 1720 year, and building of church is complete in 1729 year. During 1753 - 1763 under the direction of engineer-fortification S. Pototskyi a new temple is erected in style of baroque. The temple restored: in 1885 and in 1955 years.

• Armenian Church

  phone: +380 342 230447
  address: Vul. Vyrmenska (вул. Вірменська), 7
  Used by one of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Baroque. Built in 1743-63.

• St. Demetrius church

  address: Nechuia -Levytskoho str., (вул. Нечуя-Левицького) 6
  A wooden church from 1902. Church carpathians type. It belongs to greco-catholic society.

• Polish Church

  address: Vulytsya Vovchynetska (Вовчинецька вул), 92
  Roman Catholic Church of Christ the Lord. Built in 1927-1938.

• Protection of the Virgin church

  address: Kniahynyn str., (вул Княгинин) 29,
  Consecrated in 1905. One of the best Ukrainian churches iconostases.

• St. Joseph the Betrothed church

  address: Vovchynetska Str.,(вул. Вовчинецька,) 52-4
  1912.

• Christ the King Church

  address: Vul. Nezalezhnosty (вул. Незалежності, 181)

• Womens Seminary

  address: Vasyliianok str.,(вул. Василіянок) 17

• Jesuits church

  address: Hriunvaldska str., 3
  Built in 1729.

• St. Joseph church

  address: Mochulskoho Str., 1
  Neo-Gothic style.

• Synagogue

  address: Strachenykh str., 7

Museums

• Regional Art Museum

  address: Sheptyts'koho sq. (майдан Шептицького), 8
  Former Blessed Virgin church or Collegiate Church of Virgin Mary.

• Museum of Life and Ethnography of the Western Region

  phone: +380 342 583861
  address: Troleibusna str., 7
  There are ethnography, culture and education exhibitions.

• The Museum of Liberation Movement in Prykarpattia

  phone: +380 342 48014
  address: Henerala Tarnavskoho str., 22

• Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Museum

  phone: +380 342 750026
  address: Haytska (вул. Галицька,) 4а
  Found in 1940. Former Town hall (Ratusha) - Art Deco building from 1930s standing in the middle of Market Square (Ploshcha Rynok).

• Museum of the Insurgent Army

  address: European Square.

• Ivano-Frankivsk Historical and Memorial Museum Oleksy Dovbusha

  address: Hetman Mazepa, 1 (вул. Гетьмана Мазепи)

• Literary Museum

  phone: +380 432 25047
  address: Lepkoho Bohdana str., 27 (вул. Б. Лепкого)
  It was opened on May, 16, 1986. The display of museum tells about development of literary process of our land from the oldest times to the present. Prykarpattia Literary Museum has by 40,000 exhibits.

• Museum of Prykarpattyaoblenergo

  address: Industrial, 34 (вул. Індустріальна)
  Electricity museum.

• Geological Museum

  address: Carpathska, 15 (Карпатська)

• Ivano-Frankivsk historical and memorial museum of Oleksa Dovbush

  phone: +380 342 25729
  address: Mazepy Het'mana str., 5

Further afield

• Bogorodchany town

  address: Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
  Dominicans monastery (Домініканський монастир), 1742-62. Good for a day (or a half day) tour.

• Chernelytsya Castle and Dominicans church

  address: Chernelytsya, Ivano-Frankivsk Region
  A pretty village with the Castle remains, 1670s; Dominicans church ruins, 1661. Pics

• St.Michael (Ascension) church in Chesnyky village

  address: Rogatyn raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Region
  An architectural monument of national importance. More than 600 years old, rebuilt in 1800s.

• Halych Castle, 1590s

  address: Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
  Also here the Nativity of Christ church (церква Різдва Христова), 1400s, 1906

• Horodenka townSee here the Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary church + cells (костел Непорочного Зачаття Діви Марії), 1743-60; and the Armenian church (вірменський костел), 1706.

• KalushPresentation of the Christ at the Temple Church (1899), Museum of Ivan Franko family, St. Nicolas church (1888), St. Apostle Andrew church (1792), St. Valentine church, Museum of Kalush district, St. Archistratigus Michael church (1913), Town hall.

• KolomyiaA historical city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

• Kosiva small Hutsul settlement with a remnants of a small castle

• KrylosIt was the Old Halych, there is an etno park with an beautiful wood Church

• Manyava Skete

  address: 16, Vul. Skytova, (вул. Скитова), Maniava village
  A monastery. It was founded in 1611 by Iov Knyagynytsky. Today it’s a living man’s Orthodox Monastery of the Kiev Patriarchate. In 1621 Maniava Cell was surrounded by a stone wall with three defensive towers, where the inhabitants of surrounding villages could take a refuge during the attacks of the Turks and Crimean Tatars. It was one of the biggest Christian centers in Galicia. It had a large library and was famous for the main iconostasis. - Maniava Cell is also known because of the Blessed Stone. According to believers, it’s a place of prayer and purification. This is a first shelter, a cell for the Carpathian apostles. The Blessed Stone is almost kilometer distance from the bridge at the Mount Manyavka near the monastery lake. The Stone is located in a huge cave or niche. This is a typical ancient monk’s dwelling. - For day tour

• Pniv townFamous about Kuropatvys castle (Замок Куропатвів), 1580.

• Rohatyn townAnd its sights: the St.Nicolas church (Миколаївський костел), 1538-1555, 1650s; the Holy Spirit church (Святодухівська церква), 1598.

• Shevchenkove village

  address: Shevchenkove Шевченкове, Галицький район
  Visit the more than 800 years old, St.Pantaleon church (церква св.Пантелеймона), 1194, 1598-1611. If you take public transport (i.e. bus or marshrutka) look for the right place, because two other Shevchenkove are in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.

• Yaremche village and Waterfall "Probiy"

  address: Yaremche, Ivano-Frankivsk Region
  Many outdoor option. Good base for a hike to Peak Hoverla the highest place in Ukraine. Also there is the Vorokhta ski resort.

Theaters

• Academic Regional Music-Drama Theater of IIvana Franka

  address: Vul. Nezhalezhnosty (вул. Незалежності, 27-а)

• Regional Concert Philharmony

  phone: +380 342 223146, +380 342 750300
  address: Kurbasa Lesia str., 3

• Academic Regional Puppet Theater of Pidhiryanka

  phone: +380 342 231553
  address: Nezalezhnosti str., 10А

• Central folk house

  phone: +380 342 224709
  address: Shevchenka str., 1
  Concerts held here.

Cinemas

• Lumier Cinema

  phone: +380 342 505500
  address: Ulitsa Mikhaila Grushevskogo (ул. Михаила Грушевского), 3

• Cosmos Cinema

Parks

• City lakeIt was the former zoo area of Pototskyi. Now, urban lake - one of the main recreational areas of the City. Here is the romantic Island of Love.

• Pioneer park

  address: Street Vasiliyanok (вулиця Василіянок)

• Shevchenko Park

  address: Vul. Shevchenko,
  A big park that consists of an amusement park, a big lake with swans, couple of full-size football fields, and many others interesting places worth of seeing. Founded in 1895.

• Pryvokzalny park

  address: Pryvokzal'na sq. (Привокзальна пл),

• Memorial Park

  address: Street Andriya Melnyka (вул. Андрія Мельника)

• Rukh Stadium

  phone: +380 3422 750447
  address: Chornovola str., 128
  This is a sport complex consisting of the major arena and two auxiliary fields.

• Yunist Stadium

  address: Street Shukhevychiyv (Шухевичів вул.)

• Hirka Stadium

  phone: +380 3422 506794
  address: Street Duchymynskoe Olgy ( Дучимінської Ольги вул.)
  property of the Ivano-Frankivsk Locomotive Maintenance Plant.

• Nauka Stadium

  phone: +380 3422 535669
  address: Mazepy Het'mana str., 144
  Belongs to Prykarpattia National University of Stefanyk.

• Stadium of Oil and Gaz University

  phone: +380 342 248094
  address: Karpats'ka str., 15

• Sport-Recreational Center Tsunami

  phone: +380 342 714060, +380 342 714070
  address: Dovzhenka O. str., 29
  , contains an ice arena for the city hockey events, an aquapark, hotel (phone +380 342 714069) and restaurant (phone +380 342 714069).

• 100m stretch (stometrivka)

  address: Nezalezhnosti str.
  – unofficial local name for part of Independence (Nezalezhnosti) Street that consists of series of shops and restaurants and is restricted to pedestrian traffic only.

• Bazaar – a huge area close to the Main Square that covers the old market and the new market with couple of supermarket stores locally known as the universal stores where you can buy everything.

• Bastion

  address: Fortechna 1
  Several art galleries and shops in a renovated part of old fortress walls.

• Central Market

  phone: +380 342 227907
  address: Dnistrovs'ka str., 5

Malls, shopping centres

• Arsen Shopping Centre

  phone: +380 342 722465
  address: street Mykolaichuk (вул. Миколайчука), 2
  - There is an electronics supermarket (Eldorado).

• Bison Shopping Center

  phone: +380 342 720753, +380 342 500576, +380 342 712165
  address: Street Maksimovic (вул. Максимовича), 15
  Supermarket «FoxMart»

• Veles Shopping Centre '555'

  phone: +380 342 779255
  address: Vul Vovchynetska (вул. Вовчинецька) 225
  There is a supermarket.

• Velmart Shopping Centre

  address: Street Yevhena Konovaltsya (вул. Коновальця), 221
  Include: supermarket "City.com" (супермаркет електроніки "City.com")

• Panorama Plaza shopping center

  phone: +380 342 711204
  address: Boulevard Pivnichnyy (Північний бульвар), 2-а
  Here is the food supermarket "Vopak" (супермаркет "Вопак"), tel.:+380 342 710389

• Silpo Supermarket

  address: Vul. Hetmana Mazepy (вул. Г. Мазепи), 168
  Electronic goods here at Supermarket "ABC Technika" (супермаркет електроніки "АБВ Техніка"). More units:: Blvd. Northern University. Pushkin 2a str. Dniester, 3 (бул. Північний ім. Пушкіна, 2а, вул. Дністровська, 3)

• Comfy Shopping Center

  address: Vul. Getman Mazepi (вул. Гетьмана Мазепи), 168-V

Hypermarkets

• Epicenter Shopping Center

  address: Street Ivasyuka (вул. Івасюка), 17
  - Electronic supermarket "Tekhnoyarmarok"

• METRO Cash & Cary Shopping Center

  phone: +380 800 5014010
  address: Vul. Vovchinecka (вул. Вовчинецька), 225

Food in Ivano-Frankivsk, like the rest of the Ukraine is fairly good and will sit well in the stomach of most western travelers.
If visiting a supermarket, price on items will vary greatly. Western labeled products will be labeled with prices comparable to western prices. Similar goods with non-western labels will sell much cheaper.
Two glasses of beer and a bag of potato chips will cost about US$5 at local bars.

Pizzeria

• Pizza Chelentano

  phone: +380 342 750544
  address: Halytska (вулиця Галицька), 3,

• Tsymes Pizzeria

  phone: +380 97 2175424, +380 34 2714542
  address: Pryvokzalna sq., 9

• Maki&Tavi

  phone: +380 342 710016
  address: Str. Mazepy Hetmana, 168

Cafes

• Cafe Edelveis

  phone: +380 342 584425
  address: Horbachevskoho str., 6

• Cafe Rondo

  phone: +380 342 556590
  address: Square Pryvokzalna, 3

• Cafe Mirazh

  phone: +380 342 554461
  address: Str. Yunosti, 3

• Cafe Stara brama

  phone: +380 342 225328
  address: Halyts'ka str., 33

• Yablunevyi sad

  phone: +380 342 584550
  address: Str. Halytska, 2

• Lviv Handmade Chocolate Cafe-shop

  phone: +380 98 608-5709
  address: Str. Mazepy Hetmana, 6

• Cafe Tost

  phone: +380 342 538267
  address: Str. Mazepy Hetmana, 169

Confectioneries

• Tsukernia Cafe-Confectionery

  address: Nezalezhnosti str., 12

Fast food

• Chicken HUT

  phone: +380 3422 49384, +380 67 6728447
  address: Belvederska str., 21 (21а)

Restaurants

• Osokory

  phone: +380 342 753393, +380 99 0635870, +380 50 6748009
  address: Str. Dovzhenka O., 26

• Sadko

  phone: +380 342 710193, +380 68 4698409
  address: Str. Mazepy Het'mana, 138

As with other Ukrainian cities of its size a beer should cost under US$1 and a large bag of crisps (potato chips) in a normal bar/pub should cost a maximum of $1. If you are paying more than that you know you are being ripped off.

• Panorama Plaza Entertaintment Center

  phone: +380 342 778531, +380 67 3434169, +380 95 5369845
  address: Beregova, 2-a (former? Boulevard O.S. Pushkina,вул. Північний бульвар ім. О.С. Пушкіна )
  There is a night club, a pub (phone +380 342 773010 / 067 3425550), bowling, karaoke bar (phone +380 68 1442855, +380 342 711204)

• Pasage Gartenberg

  phone: +380 342 725101, +380 95 1759000
  address: Vichova sq., 3

• Leprekon Pub

  phone: +380 342 542324
  address: Vovchynets'ka str., 26
• Kilimanjaro
• eL Dorado

• 'Ten' Beer Club

  phone: +380 342 712121
  address: Shashkevitcha (ул. Шашкевича), 4

• Faraon Bar

  phone: +380 342 778666
  address: Mazepy Het'mana str., 173-1

Discos

• Panorama Plaza

• Fenomen

  phone: +380 68 1445566
  address: 38 Str. Pivdenny Bulvar
  Clean and cozy hostel.

• Hotel Dnister

  address: Str. Sichovykh Striltsiv(вул. Січових Стрільців), 12
  Sovietish. Quite big and dark rooms but nice staff with no English, a lift. Several rooms with bathroom en-suite, others with shared. Water supply unreliable. 31 rooms

• Auscoprut hotel

  address: Str. Grunvaldska (вулиця Грюнвальдська) 7/9
  Three-star hotel. 24 rooms

• Nadia hotel

  address: Str. Independence/Nezhalozhnosty (вулиця Незалежності,), 40
  Three-star hotel. 380 beds, 244 rooms.

• Pid Templem hotel

  address: Str Strachenykh Nationalistiv (вулиця Страчених Націоналістів), 7а
  Eleven rooms

• Park Hotel

  address: Str. Mazepy (вул. Г.Мазепи),146
  Only four-star hotel in the city. 36 rooms.

• Atrium

  address: St. Galicka (вулиця Галицька), 31

• Druzhba

  address: Vul. Gorbachevskogo (вул. Горбачевського)),3
  164 beds, 72 rooms

• Zyrkha

  address: St. Sichovykh Striltsiv, (вул. Січових Стрільців), 4
  123 beds, 39 rooms.

• Naftovyk

  address: Street Mlynarska (вул. Млинарська), 38а
  65 beds, 27 rooms.

• Legenda

  phone: +380 50 4359018
  address: Street V.Ivasyuka (вул. В.Івасюка), 25
  42 beds, 21 rooms.

• Nyva

  address: Vul. Urozhainaya (вул. Урожайна),5
  88 beds, 36 rooms.

• Stanislavsky Yard

  address: street Depovska (вул. Деповська),97
  17 rooms.

• Stanislavyv

  address: Str. Chornovola (вул. Чорновола), 7
  17 rooms.

• Tourist complex "Carpathian"

  address: Street Mazepy (вул. Мазепи), 140а
  86 beds.

• Complex "Black Castle"

  address: Kaluchke shosse (Калуське шосе), 7
  34 rooms.

• Galitskha sadyba

  address: (вул. Галицька), 1б
  8 rooms.

• Hotel Bukhara

  address: Street Ukrainskyh Decabristyv (вул. Українських декабристів), 45 b

• Motel Formula 1

  address: Str. Konovaltsya (вул. Коновальця), 433а
  28 rooms.

• Motel Cheremosh

  address: Str. Konovaltsya (вул. Коновальця), 260-а
  12 rooms.

• Guesthouse Qeens (Kvyns)

  address: St. Zarichna (вул. Зарічна), 38

• Motel Training Houses

  address: Str. L. Ukrainky (вул. Л. Українки), 4

• Mriya

  address: Str. Avtolyvmashivska (вул. Автоливмашівська), 6а
  9 rooms.

• Motel Venice/Venytsyya

  address: Street Promenade/Naberezhna (вул. Набережна), 25
  9 rooms.

• Rest rooms at railway station of "Ivano-Frankivsk"

  address: Str. Pryvokzalna (вул. Привокзальна), 1

• Hotel Ukraina

• Chernivtsi - One of the most multinational cities of Ukraine.
• Lviv - the capital of the Western Ukraine Region, with lot of sights for days
• Ternopil - An East Galician city with lot of religious buillding and good base for exploring the area
• Uzhhorod - center of Zakarpatska Oblast. Famous for a millenium-old Uzhhorod Castle inside a big regional history museum.