Ternopil oblast, Ukraine (Ternopol)

The capital city of Ternopil oblast: Ternopil.

Ternopil oblast overview

Ternopil (also spelled Ternopol) oblast was created on December 4, 1939. The area of the oblast is 2.3% of the territory of Ukraine. Ternopil region borders on Ivano-Frankivsk oblast in the west and southwest, Chernovtsy oblast in the south, Lviv oblast in the Northwest, Rivne oblast in the north and Khmelnitsky oblast in the east. The capital city is Ternopil.

Ternopil oblast population is about 1,140,000 (2010); land area is 13,800 sq. km.

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Ternopil oblast population is 2.3% of total population of Ukraine, including 510,000 people of urban area and 630,000 of rural population.

Over 300 mineral deposits have been geologically explored and researched in Ternopil oblast of Ukraine. Mainly they belong to the group of building mineral raw materials. Availability of substantial deposits of mineral raw materials creates favorable conditions for developing building materials industry in the region.

Ternopil oblast includes 17 districts, one city under the control of the regional authorities - regional center Ternopil, 15 towns under the control of the district authorities, 19 villages of a town type and 1016 villages.

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Ternopil oblast, Ukraine nature

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Ternopil oblast scenery

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Ternopil oblast medieval castle

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Ternopil oblast features

Ternopil oblast industry: food-processing, machine-building and consumer goods production.

Ternopil oblast agriculture: grains, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables; cattle and poultry farming.

Among main tourist objects there is Tovtrovy mountain ridge, Kremenets mountains, Dniester canyon, karst caves (an Optimistic cave among them - the largest in Europe).

The region was a part of Kievan Rus, Galitsky and Galitsko-Volynsky principalities, from early 14th century it was a part of Poland, Rzeczpospolita (1349-1772), Austria (1772-1918), Russia (1809-1815), Poland (1918-1939), the USSR (1939-1991). Ternopil oblast has always been and still remains an agricultural region.

On the territory of Ternopil oblast monuments of history and culture are preserved:

Settlement Vishnevets: magnates Vishnevetsky’s palace and a park of 18th century;
Settlement Gusyatin: Onufriyevskaya church of the second half of 16th century, Bernandin Polish Roman-Catholic church and a monastery of 16th-17th centuries, a town hall;
Town Zaleshyky: a palace of 18th century;
Settlement Mezhgorye: old Slavic cave church of 10th-17th centuries with a sacrificial stone and Resurrection church of 17th century;
Town Podgaitsy: a Polish Roman-Catholic church of 15th-17th centuries, Assumption church of 17th century, synagogue of 17th century;
Town Pochaev - Pochayevskaya lavra;
Settlement Mikulintsy: a castle of 16th century, a palace of 18th-19th centuries, a Polish Roman-Catholic church of 18th century;
Settlement Krivche: a castle of 17th century;
Settlement Sapogov: a wooden church of 18th century;
Settlement Skala-Podolskaya: a castle of 15th-16th centuries, a defense tower of 16th century, a palace in baroque style, a Polish Roman-Catholic church and a park of 18th century;
Town Skalat - a castle of 1630;
Settlement Skoriky: a wooden John the Theologian church of 17th century;
Settlement Yazlovets (former Yablonovka) of Buchachsky district: ruins of a castle of 14th-18th centuries, Nickolas church of 17th century, Assumption Polish Roman-Catholic church with a belfry of 1589-1590, a palace of mid 17th century.