STRYY

Russian Stry, also spelled Stryi, or Stryj, city, Lviv oblast (province), Ukraine, on the Stryy River. It is an old town, dating in the chronicles from 1396, but it first became important as a railway junction. It now has various machine-building and engineering industries, as well as food and light industrial concerns. It is also the administrative centre for the natural-gas industry situated in the surrounding area. There is a college of agricultural mechanics and a medical school. Pop. (1991 est.) 68,200.