Ternopil (Ternopol)

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About Ternopil

Ternopil, also spelled as Ternopol, formerly Tarnopol, city and administrative center of Ternopyl oblast, in Western Ukraine.

After World War II, most Poles were relocated to Poland. In 2005, the population had grown to roughly 225,000, mostly Ukrainian with a large Russian or Russian-speaking minority and an invisibly small Jewish community. The religion is mostly Eastern Rite Catholicin 1991. The city has important institutions of higher education, including two teacher's colleges, an international medical school with instruction in English and one of three economics institutes in Ukraine. (Uniate) with active Orthodox and Protestant minorities. Many churches, large and small, have been built every year since the collapse of the Soviet Union

One of the major battles in the Soviet Union was fought to control Ternopil because it is a rail transportation hub. After the war, the destroyed residential section near the river was turned into an artificial lake instead of being rebuilt.

Nature
Landscape – the major part of the territory is situated on Podillya Hill (Plateau). Water resources: the main rivers are Dnister with inflows , on the north – rivers of the basin of Pryp’yat’. Soil - in the main black earths of all kinds. Climate: moderately continental. Rainfalls – 550-600 mm. Minerals: significant deposits of building mineral materials (lime, chalk, marl, gypsum, quartz sand, brick and tile earths, loam, gravel-sand). There are also peat deposits and brown coal deposits, mineral water resources.

Ternopil’shchyna has more than 400 territories and objects of nature and reserve fund, Medobory park, 89 reserves including state reserves, 308 memorials of nature, 18 parks – memorials of landscape art including 4 state parks.

Economy
Although the city continues to grow rapidly, heavily supported by remittances from workers abroad, many abandoned buildings in rural areas of the oblast and even in the city give mute evidence that the economy is uneven.

Ternopil oblast population is 2.3% of the total population of the Ukraine, including 512,400 people of urban area (4.8%) and 630,600 of rural population. Over 300 mineral deposits have been geologically explored and researched in Ternopil oblast. 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 Ternopil oblast.

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