Velykyi Liubin


Velykyi Liubin is an urban-type settlement located in Horodok Raion of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. The settlement has a balneological and cardiological resort and sanatorium.

Local government is administered by Velykoliubinska town council.

Geography

The settlement Velykyi Liubin is located along the Highway Ukraine - Lviv - Sambir - Uzhhorod. Distance from the regional center Lviv is the, from the district center Horodok and from Uzhhorod.

History

Velykyi Liubin settlements the first have been mentioned in Ruthenian chronicles as the city Lyubynhorod,. The Army by Prince Danylo Romanovych has destroyed the settlement in 1241. At the beginning of the 15th century was inhabited the village Liubin.

Today this is an urban-type settlement. Area of the settlement totals is 33,45 km2 and the population is about 4550 people.

Religious structures and attractions

In the settlement there are three religious communities. This religious community of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Religious Community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate and Religious Community of the Roman Catholic Church.

At today in the settlement is the wooden Greek Catholic Church, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Church of St.Nicholas the Wonderworker and Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa

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