Burshtyn

Burshtyn is primarily an industrial center, close to Burshtyn TPP, which is the largest thermal power plant in Western Ukraine. It is connected to the European energy system and provides electricity to part of EuropeEurope.

Amber 1837. Engraving by Karel Auer [7]

On September 1, 1866, the first train LvivLviv-Chernivtsi Chernivtsi passed through the Burshtyn station.

In the post-war period, Burshtyn was rebuilt, in particular, the Burshtyn State District Power Plant (now Burshtyn TPPBurshtyn TPP) was put into operation, and infrastructure was developed. Amber was the district center in 1940-1962. The suburban hamlet of Dubka was evicted.

With independence, Burshtyn TPPBurshtyn TPP remains a working budget-generating enterprise, and Burshtyn again (1993) gained the status of a city.

According to the Correspondent magazine's rating compiled in 2010 on the basis of the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on the degree of how many hazardous substances are emitted into the atmosphere of enterprises and transport of Ukrainian cities, Amber took third place among the most polluted cities in UkraineUkraine, after Kryvyi RihKryvyi Rih and MariupolMariupol.

The biggest polluter of the city is Burshtyn TPPBurshtyn TPP, which as of February 22, 2011 was one of the 10 most polluting objects in UkraineUkraine.

The OUN-UPA Museum (official name - Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Halych District) [18] - was founded in 1996 on the initiative of the OUN-UPA Brotherhood of the Halych District Village and the Halych District Association of Political Prisoners and Repressed and approved by the extraordinary Halych District 1998. The exposition about Ukrainian patriots was placed in the Burshtyn Palace of Culture "Prometheus"

a full-length monument to Taras ShevchenkoTaras Shevchenko - erected to the 180th anniversary of the poet's birth in 1994 (authors - sculptor Anatoly Kushch and architect Oleg Stukalov), erected near the Prometheus PC;

Mika NewtonMika Newton is a Ukrainian pop singer and actress.

Volodymyr Sharan is a Ukrainian footballer and coach who has played for Karpaty (Lviv), Dynamo KyivDynamo Kyiv and Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk). He played 1 match for the national team of Ukraine. Pupil of CYSS Burshtyn (first coach - MS Segin).

Great panorama of the city

Large panorama of the surroundings of the city of Burshtyn and Burshtyn thermal power plant

Buried

Hryhoriy Tyskynevych was the hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks in 1610.

Associated with Amber

Goloyad Halyna Omelyanivna (pseudonym Marta Hai; June 30, 1922 - January 2, 2003) was a poet and cultural figure who lived and worked in Burshtyn.

Volodymyr Sharan is a Ukrainian footballer and coach who has played for Karpaty (Lviv), Dynamo Kyiv and Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk). He played 1 match for the national team of Ukraine. Pupil of CYSS Burshtyn (first coach - MS Segin).

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, the son of the composer WA Mozart, lived in Amber in 1809.

Mykola Stepanovych Belogolovsky (1958-2014) - senior lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Monument to Olga Basarab; installed in the city center near the secondary school of I-III centuries. No 2.

Famous people

Władysław Zyła (1877–1925) was a Polish priest, art critic, historian of religion, and doctor of habilitation.

Kaban Fedir Mykolayovych - senior soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war of 2015-2016.

Mika Newton is a Ukrainian pop singer and actress.

Savchak Vadym Yevhenovych - soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014-2015.

Ludwik Finkel is a Polish historian.

The modern architectural face of the city emerged mainly in the first half of the 1970s, when a number of residential buildings, cultural buildings, industrial facilities, etc. were built in Amber.

City sculpture Amber.

a full-length monument to Taras Shevchenko - erected to the 180th anniversary of the poet's birth in 1994 (authors - sculptor Anatoly Kushch and architect Oleg Stukalov), erected near the Prometheus PC;

Monument to the Unknown Soldier - erected in the old part of the city;

A sculpture erected in honor of the poetess Martha Guy in the library of the Prometheus PC (author - sculptor Goloyad Bogdan Markovich, son of Martha Guy).

Monument to Olga Basarab; installed in the city center near the secondary school of I-III centuries. № 2

Architecture

Traces of the ramparts of the city castle of the 16th century have been preserved in Burshtyn. Once in Burshtyn was built a magnificent palace of the owners of the town - Jablonowski, the facade of which was decorated with columns with capitals, and around the building was laid arboretum. For now, all that has survived from the Jablonowski family in Burshtyn is the Skarbek-Jablonowski tomb chapel-tomb built in 1813 in the central part of the cemetery.

Religion

The following religious communities operate in modern Amber:

Greek Catholic:

The Church of All Saints and the Holy Martyr Jehoshaphat is a majestic church consecrated on December 2, 2001.

the historic Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross [26] (XVIII century) in the old part of the city on Shevchenko Street;

Roman Catholic - Church of the Holy Trinity, the old building (XVIII-XIX centuries) of the cult building was returned to the Roman Catholic community in 1991; after major repairs and interior renovations, the church began to be used for its original purpose.

Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration (UOC-KP), in 1999 the community was formed, in 2002 a church was built and consecrated, which was dismantled in the village of Kopanky, Kalush district , № 771 in the register of monuments of the region), sold by the Orthodox community Kopanok and transported to Burshtyn.

Sport

Built in 1976, the Energetik sports complex now remains the main center for the development of sports, recreation and leisure not only for the residents of Burshtyn, but also for the entire Halych district. In 2018, the sports facilities combined sections of weightlifting, wrestling, football, karate-do and some other sports. Many Amber athletes are professionals. Rowers, karatekas and footballers achieved the greatest results in the professional arena.

Founded in 1948, Energetyk football club played in the first league of the Ukrainian championship.

The OUN-UPA Museum (official name - Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Halych District) [18] - was founded in 1996 on the initiative of the OUN-UPA Brotherhood of the Halych District Village and the Halych District Association of Political Prisoners and Repressed and approved by the extraordinary Halych District 1998. The exposition about Ukrainian patriots was placed in the Burshtyn Palace of Culture "Prometheus"

Olga Basarab Museum is a museum of the unconquered Ukrainian, public and revolutionary figure Olga Basarab.

Berehynia Historical and Ethnographic Museum (unofficial name - Opillya Museum) - the main social and public content of the Opillya Museum is the revival of spirituality, dissemination of folk customs, rituals, preservation of the best material and spiritual cultures of the ethnoregion.

3 libraries - children's, adult, trade union committee of http://zakhidenergo.com.ua/separate-units/dtek-burshtynska-tpp/.

Culture

Cultural institutions Amber:

House of Culture named after T. Shevchenko is the first public cultural institution of the city, its beginnings date back to 1908, when the well-known reading room "Prosvita" was built in the district, which has now grown into a people's house of culture.

Prometheus Palace of Power Engineers - founded in 1971 as a departmental and specialized institution of culture and leisure of employees of Burshtyn TPP, it has always functioned as a place of rest and development of amateur art for residents of the entire city of Burshtyn. It has a cinema and concert hall for 700 seats, a small hall for 250 seats, a conference hall for 60 seats, a library with a reading room, a gym.

Burshtyn Energy College - trains junior specialists in full-time and part-time forms of education in the following areas: heat engineering (specialty "installation and operation of thermal power equipment of thermal power plants"), electrical engineering and electrical technology (specialty "installation and operation of electrical equipment of power plants and power systems") computer-integrated technologies (specialty "maintenance of automated thermal power equipment at power plants"), economics and entrepreneurship (specialties "banking", "business economics", "exchange activities")

Social spheres

Medical institutions of the city of Burshtyn:

City Hospital

clinic.

There are three secondary schools in Burshtyn, the Burshtyn Inter-School Training and Production Complex and the Burshtyn Gymnasium.

Preschool education is represented by kindergartens № 1, 2, 3, 6 and a school-kindergarten.

The city also has two special secondary schools:

Burshtyn Vocational School № 20 is a vocational school that trains service professionals, including cooks, waiters, bartenders, confectioners, accountants, cashiers, food and non-food vendors.

Ecology

According to the Correspondent magazine's rating compiled in 2010 on the basis of the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on the degree of how many hazardous substances are emitted into the atmosphere of enterprises and transport of Ukrainian cities, Amber took third place among the most polluted cities in Ukraine, after Kryvyi Rih and Mariupol.

The biggest polluter of the city is Burshtyn TPP, which as of February 22, 2011 was one of the 10 most polluting objects in Ukraine.

Franz Xavier Mozart was born on July 26, 1791 in Vienna. Here he mastered the piano and the theory of violin. At the age of seventeen, in order to earn some money, he moved to Lviv, where he received a lucrative offer to give music lectures to two daughters of Count Bavorowski in Pidkamen, not far from Rohatyn.Although the salary was quite high, the musician felt very isolated in this village, so a year later, in 1809, he accepted the offer of the imperial chamberlain (representative of the Austrian emperor in the town) von Janiszewski to teach music to his children in Amber. He lived here for two years. During this time he organized the first secular choir, staged plays, often gave concerts for guests of the Amber Landlord, where he performed his father's and his first musical worksworks.The composer traveled a lot in Ukraine, where his concerts were perceived as encore. In 1838 the composer returned to Vienna and was elected honorary conductor of Mozart in Salzburg. He died on July 29, 1844 in the resort town of Carlsbad, where he was buried.

Franz Xavier Mozart was born on July 26, 1791 in Vienna. Here he mastered the piano and the theory of violin. At the age of seventeen, in order to earn some money, he moved to Lviv, where he received a lucrative offer to give music lectures to two daughters of Count Bavorowski in Pidkamen, not far from RohatynRohatyn.Although the salary was quite high, the musician felt very isolated in this village, so a year later, in 1809, he accepted the offer of the imperial chamberlain (representative of the Austrian emperor in the town) von Janiszewski to teach music to his children in Amber. He lived here for two years. During this time he organized the first secular choir, staged plays, often gave concerts for guests of the Amber Landlord, where he performed his father's and his first musical works.

Descendant of Mozart in Amber

From 1809 to 1811, the son of the world-famous composer VA Mozart Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart lived and worked in Amber.

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart

Franz Xavier Mozart was born on July 26, 1791 in Vienna. Here he mastered the piano and the theory of violin. At the age of seventeen, in order to earn some money, he moved to Lviv, where he received a lucrative offer to give music lectures to two daughters of Count Bavorowski in Pidkamen, not far from Rohatyn.

The oldest information about the town dates back to 1554. From 1940 to 1962, Burshtyn was the district center. However, in the 1940s it lost its city status, and in the early 1960s - the status of a district center. From 1962 to 2014 as part of the Halych district of Ivano-Frankivsk region. In the 1960s, the Burshtyn TPP was built as built near Burshtyn, the last unit of which was launched in 1969. Since 2014, Burshtyn has become a city of regional significance, and in 2020, as a result of administrative and territorial reform - the center of the Burshtyn city united territorial community.

With independence, Burshtyn TPP remains a working budget-generating enterprise, and Burshtyn again (1993) gained the status of a city.

On March 11, 2014, the city of Burshtyn was included in the category of cities of regional significance and removed from the Galician district