Nahuievychi

Nahuievychi (Nahuyevychi, old name – Solne, Bashevo, from 1951 to 2009 – Ivana-Franka) (Ukrainian: Нагує́вичі, Іва́на-Франка́, стара назва – Со́льне, Ба́шево) (Polish: Nahujowice) is a village in Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Drohobych urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

Nahuievychi
Нагуєвичі
Nahuievychi
Nahuievychi
Coordinates: 49°21′43″N 23°19′14″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Lviv Oblast
Raion Drohobych Raion
Established1050
Area
  Total28.711 km2 (11.085 sq mi)
Elevation
/(average value of)
334 m (1,096 ft)
Population
  Total2 518
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
82126
Area code+380 3244
Websiteсело Нагуєвичі (Ukrainian)

Nahuyevychi is the birthplace of poet and writer Ivan Franko (1856–1916). Ivan Franko was a famous Ukrainian activist, a Ukrainian poet, writer, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer. Franko was born in Nahuyevichi in Austrian-controlled eastern Galicia, today part of Lviv Oblast (oblast of Ukraine), and was the son of a village blacksmith, of German ancestry. The village is the location of the Nahuyevychi State Historical and Cultural Preserve, a Ukrainian historic site designated in 1994.

The village covers an area of 28.711 km2 and the population of village is about 2,518 persons. Local government is administered by Nahuievytska village council.

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