Yavoriv

Yavoriv is a city in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine, about 15 kilometres from the Polish border and roughly 50 kilometres west of the oblast capital Lviv. It is the administrative centre of Yavoriv Raion and hosts the administration of the Yavoriv urban hromada. Its population is approximately 12,785 according to a 2022 estimate. The city is known in Polish as Jaworow, in German as Jaworiw and in Yiddish as Yavorov. In Galicia it was the seat of a county. Not far from it lies the watering place of Shklo with sulphur springs. It became part of Ukraine on 10 December 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and in March 2022 the military base at Yavoriv was bombed during the Russian invasion.