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Drogobych is a city (1990 est. pop. 77,000. Today it has about 80,000 inhabitants) in Lviv (Lvov) region of Western Ukraine, in the North Carpathian foothills. It's located in 60 km (38 miles) south from Lviv. The closest international airport is in Lviv (Lvov). Drohobych is a major petroleum-refining center of the Boryslav oil field (oil refinery Halychyna is based in Drohobych). It is linked by an oil pipeline with Boryslav and a natural gas pipeline with Dashava. Drohobych has a wonderful wooden church of St. George, a real poetry in wood hewn with axes from 15th - 18th centuries. City has also Pedagogical State University as well as private Yuriy Kotermak Medical Institute. Among the places to see also would be Drohobych Land Museum "Drohobychchyna" in the city. It functions since 1940 and numbers 25 halls with different archeological, ethnographic and historical exhibitions.
