New Rozdol

The city is located on the left-bank Dniester slope at an altitude of 290 m above sea level, at the junction of Opole and the Pre-Carpathian Trough. The highway Nikolaev – Khodorov passes through Novy Rozdol. The distance to Lviv is 54 km, to Nikolaev - the administrative center of the Nikolaev district - 19 km, to Khodorov - 18 km, Zhydachiv - 27 km. The Khodorov-Novy Rozdol railway, built in 1958 , provided freight rail transportation. A direct road connection connects the city of Novy Rozdol with the regional center, other settlements of the Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Volyn regions and the Republic of Poland . At the moment, Andrei Meleshko is working as the mayor of Novy Rozdol.

The climate is temperate. The average annual temperature is +7.6 ° C, July temperature is +18 ° C. The average annual rainfall over the past 50 years is 683 mm, the snow cover in winter is 10-12 cm, and its duration is 60-80 days. Winds are mainly of western and south-western directions, atmospheric pressure - 725–740 mm Hg.

The territory on which New Rozdol was founded was occupied by fields and hayfields until 1952 . Geologists have discovered a sulfur deposit here - one of the largest in Europe. Native sulfur of the Pre-Carpathian sulfuric region belongs to the sedimentary type. It lies beneath the surface of the soil at a depth of 35 - 130 m, which creates favorable conditions for the extraction of sulfur by the open pit method, the economic efficiency of which is 4-6 times higher than mine. The average thickness of the sulfur-bearing strata is 13 m, the maximum is about 30 meters. Due to the fact that sulfur is a strategic raw material for the chemical and military industries, in 1952 the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry decided to build a large sulfur plant and a workers' settlement for the resettlement of builders and plant operators.

Already in 1959, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR, New Rozdol was categorized as urban-type settlements. In 1960, the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Decree No. 315, decided to double the capacity of the Rozdol Mining and Chemical Combine, and on June 24, 1963, the USSR State Planning Committee decided to subsequently increase the production capacity. In 1963, by Decree of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR, New Rozdol was categorized as a city of regional significance. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in December 2002 gave New Rozdol the status of a city of regional significance.

After Ukraine gained independence, the Novorozdolsky chemical industry enterprise reduced, and after a few years completely stopped the production of its main products.

The city has preserved enterprises of the chemical, food and light industries, mechanical engineering and metalworking, the production of building materials and construction companies. An important factor in the development of the city’s economy was small private entrepreneurship, which employs about 1000 people. An important and stabilizing factor for the socio-economic sphere of the city remains budgetary institutions - educational, health, cultural, and preschool institutions.

New Rozdol is one of the most criminal cities in the Lviv region. This is connected with the history of the city, since in 1952, when the city was built, most of the former prisoners were sent to work at the local enterprise “Sirka”. ^[2]

• Political and public figure - Dorotich Sergey Ivanovich .
• Ukrainian TV presenter, journalist and model - Freimut, Olga Mikhailovna .
• Ukrainian TV presenter and actor, Honored Artist of Ukraine - Yury Nikolaevich Gorbunov
• People's Deputy of Ukraine Andrey Fedorovich Antonishchak

• Official site of New Rozdol
• Підсумки social and economic and cultural development of the metro station Novy Rozdil for 2006 rіk my number and fact (unavailable link)
• Map of New Rozdol
• New Rozdol aerial view
• Periwinkle Lake