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Mostyska Territorial Community
Lviv
Population:
The Mostyska territorial community is located on the territory of Yavoriv district, Lviv region.
The center of the community, the town of Mostyska, is located 65 km from the regional center of Lviv and 15 km from the Shehyni-Medyka international border crossing point.
Highways and railways connecting Ukraine with the countries of Western Europe pass through the town.
The total area of the territory: 444.2 km².
Population: 31,700 people.
Men: 8,795
Women: 10,725
Children: 5,792
People of retirement age: 6,388
Internally displaced persons: 316
The community includes 63 population centers – 1 town and 62 villages – and has its administrative center in the town of Mostyska.
History
The town of Mostyska is one of the oldest in Ukrainian Prykarpattia. The first written mention of Mostyska dates back to 1392.
The western lands of modern Ukraine, including the region called Mostyshchyna, were once part of the powerful state – Kyivan Rus. The name comes from the word “bridges” (Ukrainian “mosty”), which still exist on all four sides of the town.
In the Middle Ages, the town was an important trade and craft center in the western Ukrainian lands. In 1404, Mostyska were granted Magdeburg rights. Like every town that enjoyed Magdeburg rights, Mostyska had a town hall, a market, defensive walls and ramparts, the traces of which are still visible today in the northeastern part.
During the 16th-17th centuries, the town was repeatedly destroyed by the Turks, Tatars, Vlachs, and Swedes. In the 12th century there were 16 workshops in the town, including tailoring, weaving, tinsmithing, shoemaking, carpentry, slaughtery, blacksmithing, furriers, baking and others. In 1772, during the first division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Halychyna was captured by Austria. The colonial oppression of the Habsburg Empire had a negative impact on the economic and cultural development of the town. Historically, Ukrainian and Polish cultures developed in parallel in Mostyshchyna, mutually enriching each other.
In the autumn of 1994, a monument to Taras Shevchenko, as well as a monument to fallen fighters for the freedom of Ukraine were opened in the town. And the monument to Bohdan Khmelnytskyi was erected back in the 50s. In the time of independent Ukraine, a monument to Stepan Bandera was built in the town. The Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred square was opened, and a year later the memorial sign “Fighters for the freedom of Ukraine” was erected.
The Mostyska area is a promising, safe and attractive region for the development of both domestic and international tourism. On the territory of the Mostyska community, unique culture and art, authenticity, architecture, temples, monuments, traditions, unique rites and folklore have been formed and preserved.
The Mostyska community is rich in architectural monuments. These are wooden churches, Roman Catholic churches, and monuments – objects that are entered in the State Register of Architectural Monuments. The Strakhotski Palace is another cultural heritage object on the territory of the Mostyska Town Council. Built in 1825 by Mr. Antony Strakhotski, it is an architectural monument of the 19th century. The palace is located in a quiet, cozy corner of the town of Mostyska, at a distance of 2.5 km from the Lviv-Shehyni international highway, not far from the railway station. The building consists of 46 rooms with a total area of 1,090 square meters.
Economy and Welfare
The main goal of the economic sector is to create conditions for the restoration of sustainable development of industrial production with the use of innovative technologies and support the development of promising, competitive enterprises.
The community specializes in the production of grain and industrial crops, dairy products; brick production.
The economy of the territorial community is mainly represented by agricultural production, where there are more than 60 farms of various forms of ownership that specialize in the production of dairy products and the cultivation of grains, vegetables, gardening, growing berries, mushrooms and asparagus.
In recent years, small business has been actively developing in the community, and public catering establishments (restaurants, pizzerias, etc.) in particular.
In total, about 700 legal entities and individual entrepreneurs operate in the territory of the community.
The educational and cultural sphere is well-developed in the Mostyska urban territorial community and is represented by:
- 18 secondary education institutions,
- 3 preschools,
- Mostyska School of Arts,
- House of Children’s and Youth Creativity,
- Inclusive Resource Center,
- Children’s Youth Sports School,
- Center for Professional Development of Teaching Staff,
- Communal institution “Sports for All”,
- Mostyshchyna People’s Local History Museum
- Cultural Services Center (people’s houses and libraries).
There is also an extensive network of health care facilities. There are the Center for Primary Health Care, 5 outpatient clinics, 5 medical and midwifery stations, and the Mostyska Town Hospital.
Community and War
Since the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, everything has changed in the life of every Ukrainian. The war forced people to mobilize, to find ways out of difficult situations.
More than a million people fleeing the war passed through the community. Residents helped those in need, each worked on their own front, responding to the challenges of wartime.
Mostyska became a town that sheltered more than a thousand forced migrants during the full-scale invasion by the aggressor country. Places for internally displaced persons were arranged in schools and public houses. There they could eat, change clothes and rest.
Hundreds of residents of the community helped the migrants with transport to the border, prepared hot food. The town council together with the police coordinated the local public formation to protect law and order, dozens of residents guarded the streets of the town and villages around the clock. Humanitarian aid delivery points were working. Shining Star, an Israeli field hospital operated in the community. Thanks to the coordinated work of doctors, in one month of work, they provided medical assistance to more than thousands of residents of Mostyska and neighboring communities, internally displaced persons and all those willing.
The Mostyshchyna Volunteer Movement operates in the community which has repeatedly visited the military on the front lines and delivered aid.
The community lost 66 Heroes in the war, 19 are considered missing.
People of the Community
Myroslava Pelts is the Community Head
Creating an attractive investment climate in the community and attracting investors is one of the most important areas of work. The community is open to investors who want to develop their business.
The Mostyska Town Council has established international cooperation with local self-government bodies of European countries. It also cooperates with territorial communities from Ukraine. Such contacts with partners contribute to attracting additional resources for the implementation of joint projects, exchange of experience in the fields of education, culture, medicine, as well as in the socio-economic development of territories.
For decades, Mostyshchyna has maintained and developed friendly relations with the town of Przemyśl, which is 20 kilometers from Mostyska. The cooperation agreement between the partner cities was signed back in 2008. Cooperation has intensified in recent years. After the start of the full-scale russian war against Ukraine, partners from Przemyśl provided concrete and effective assistance.
Recently, the students visited the recreational center “Safe House” located in Przemyśl. Sports tournaments, joint festivals, exchange of on-stage performance groups and meetings contribute to the establishment of friendly relations, acquaintance with the culture and traditions of the two neighboring countries of Ukraine and Poland.
When the full-scale war began, the Mayor of the Klobuck County, Henrik Kepura, called the town council. Myroslava Pelts agreed on the resumption of cooperation and the signing of the Agreement. The delegation from Klobuck came to Shehyni, where they signed a memorandum of cooperation and partnership between the Klobuck County and the Mostyska Town Council in April 2022.
During these two years, partners from Klobuck visited Mostyska more than 10 times. They handed over generators for education institutions, health facilities, other departments, household items and products for displaced persons. They provided volunteer firemen of the community with equipment and necessary machinery.
The implementation of the project “Creation of an Agro-Processing Park “FruitBank” has begun. Fruit Bank is an innovative agro-processing park in the heart of Lviv region, helping farmers and producing local products.
The company constantly helps the military. Only in 2022, more than 3,000 packets of instant borscht and soups, as well as apple and orange chips, and apple jam were handed over to the military.
Within the framework of the financial agreement “Extraordinary credit program for the recovery of Ukraine” between Ukraine and the European Investment Bank, the implementation of the project “Overhaul (insulation of the facade) of the building of the Mostyska preschool education institution” is underway. It is planned to be completed by the end of 2024.
The Mostyska Town Hospital is among the winners of the Interreg NEXT cross-border cooperation program “Poland – Ukraine 2021-2027” under the Project “Implementation of the program for the prevention of gastrointestinal diseases in the Podlaskie Voivodeship and Lviv Region through the use of highly specialized medical equipment and telemedicine facilities”, which will be implemented in the Mostyska Hospital together with the Zyndram-Kościałkowski Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration in Białystok (Podlaskie Voivodeship).
The community is also the winner of the competitive selection under the program “Energy efficiency of public buildings in Ukraine” for two projects, the implementation of which will take place in 2025-2026:
- Overhaul of a part of a non-residential building, a hospital (children’s department);
2. Overhaul (thermomodernization) of Lyceum No. 2 building.
Development Strategy
The community has a Sustainable Development Strategy of the Mostyska Urban Territorial Community until 2027. The main tool for implementing the Strategy is the Action Plan for each of the two stages (2022-2024 and 2025-2027).
The strategy is based on a vision – the Mostyska community should become capable. A land with an attractive investment climate, efficient use of natural resources, comfortable living conditions, a community that provides high-quality educational, medical and social services.
3 priority areas in the community have been identified:
- Mostyshchyna – a border area with a developed economy and tourist infrastructure
- Mostyshchyna – an area ensuring quality life of residents
- Mostyshchyna – a comfortable and safe community
The Mostyska Suchy Port Industrial Park is registered on the territory of the community, which will become operational later.
