Ivano-Frankivsk - Alberta Relations

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PROFILE Frankivsk was renewed by way of a Letter of . The oblast is a member of the international Understanding (LOU) that was signed in organization “Carpathian Euroregion”, which Area: 13,900 km² (2.3 per cent of Ukrainian August 2013. The twinning agreement lapsed includes the cross-border administrative areas territory) in 2015. of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Capital: Ivano-Frankivsk City (pop. 254,500; Ukraine. 2017) . Alberta has strong ethnic and cultural ties to Ukraine, particularly in the western oblasts, . The city of Ivano-Frankivsk is twinned with 23 Population: 1.38 million (January 2017) with over 350,000 Albertans claiming other cities in Poland, Hungary, Czech Language: Ukrainian Ukrainian ancestry. Republic, Romania, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, USA, Moldova, Portugal, and Georgia. Government: appointed Regional . Alberta has contributed to building social, Administration and elected Regional Council political and economic reform in Ukraine. . The region’s population is over 97 per cent (Rada) ethnic Ukrainian. Head of Oblast (Appointed): Governor Oleg OBLAST OVERVIEW Romanovich Goncharuk ECONOMY . Ivano-Frankivsk region was formed on Head of Rada (Elected): Chairman Sich December 4, 1939. Its administrative centre is . Ivano-Frankivsk is home to 7,100 enterprises Alexander Maximovich the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. and 38,500 registered businesspersons, 42 Currency: Hryvnia (UAH), bank institutions, 45 credit associations, 74 CAD $1 = $19.64 UAH, 1 UAH = CAD $0.051 . The oblast is located in the southwest of insurance organizations, five stock exchanges, (June 2017) Ukraine and borders the Lviv, Ternopil, seven consulting and 26 auditing firms, six Chernivtsi and Transcarpathian regions, and Key Industry Sectors: agriculture and forestry, trading houses, and many other organizations Romania. electric power industry, fuel, chemical and that contribute to the oblast’s economy. petrochemical, machine-building and metal- . The oblast has 14 districts and 6 cities of working, woodworking, light and food branches of . Twenty-five per cent of Ivano-Frankivsk’s the industry. oblast significance. working population is employed in agriculture and forestry, 16.4 per cent in trades, 11.3 per . In the early 1990s, Ivano-Frankivsk City was a cent in industry, 4.1 per cent in construction, RELATIONSHIP OVERVIEW strong centre of the Ukrainian independence and 3.94 in transportation. movement. . In 2004, Alberta and Ivano-Frankivsk signed a . The region’s unemployment rate is 8.4 per five year twinning agreement, to explore . The city of Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanyslaviv until cent. opportunities to cooperate in numerous areas, 1939, Stanislav until 1962) appeared in the including culture, education, economic late XVII century. The official date of the city’s FOREIGN TRADE development and governance. founding is May 7, 1662. . Fifty-nine per cent of Ivano-Frankivsk’s exports . The cooperation between the Province of . The city is a major railway junction connecting go to the EU, 19.8 per cent to Commonwealth Alberta and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast was Chernivtsi, St. Petersburg, Sophia, Kyiv, and of Independent States (CIS) countries, 19.9 reaffirmed in 2010 when the twinning Moscow. per cent to Asia, 0.9 per cent to Africa, and 0.3 agreement was renewed. per cent to America. . The Carpathian Mountains, one of the largest . The commitment to explore areas of co- mountain ranges in Europe, occupy almost a operation between Alberta and Ivano- half of the oblast.

October 2017 | Input provided by Alberta Ministries of: Economic Development and Trade

. In 2015, the amount of products export and EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES and scientific research establishment of its import in the region was $373.0 million and type in Ukraine, where students are trained in $296.2 million, respectively. Tourism the following industries: oil and gas, transport, . Ivano-Frankivsk hosts two million tourists electricity and energy supply. . The oblast’s leading imports include polymers, annually and is known to be one of Ukraine’s plastics and products made from them. most picturesque oblasts. RECENT VISITS . August 2013: The Governor of Ivano- . Over 90 per cent of Ivano-Frankivsk’s . The oblast is focusing on growing green Frankivsk, Mr. Mykhaylo Vyshyvanyuk, visited investment comes from EU countries and the tourism and extreme vacationing. region holds 1st place in investment attraction Alberta to sign a LOU with the Government of amongst other Ukrainian regions. . Ivano-Frankivsk City is the hub for organizing Alberta, and an MOU with the City of tourist trips and excursions to the Carpathian Edmonton. . The region is prioritizing the tourism, food Mountains. processing, engineering, information . June 2012: Justice stakeholders from Ivano- technology, transportation and logistical Telecommunications Frankivsk visited Alberta to learn about the infrastructure, and alternative energy and Canadian youth justice system. energy efficiency industries for investment. . To increase the quality and efficiency of services, state-of-the-art communications . June 2010: The Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk, . The city of Ivano-Frankivsk has investors from systems based on fibre-optics and digital Mr. Mykhaylo Vyshyvanyuk, visited Alberta to 45 different countries, and over 175 technologies are being developed and attend the Canada-Ukraine Business Forum. companies with foreign capital investments. subscriber networks revived. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION ENERGY Technology . The Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada is Mr. . The oblast accounts for about 15 per cent of . Ivano-Frankivsk is attempting to introduce Andriy Shevchenko. the total oil extraction in Ukraine. policies that preserve and develop regional scientific and technological potential, and help . Canada’s Ambassador to Ukraine is Mr. . Associated petrochemical and machinery implement these results into industry. Roman Waschuk. industries have been developing rapidly. . Better technology is needed for oil and gas . Canada also has a Consulate in Lviv. . The region also generates wind, solar and drilling, transportation and storage. . Ukraine’s Consul General in Toronto with hydroelectricity. CULTURE jurisdiction over Alberta is Mr. Andrii MINERALS Veselovskyi. . In September 2006, the Government of . The region has 340 deposits of 25 kinds of Alberta signed a Genealogy Agreement with . Ukraine’s Honorary Consul in Vancouver is various minerals; 161 of these deposits are Lviv (central repository for all of Western Mr. Mir Ihor Lubomyr Huculak. already developed, which include: Ukraine), establishing genealogical research offices in Lviv and Edmonton which will o fuel-energy (oil, gas, lignite, peat); provide a link between archival records in Alberta and Western Ukraine ($200,000 over o chemical (rock salt, potassium salt, sulfur, three years donated by the GOA). phosphorites); . Renewed funding in 2010 has allowed this o building materials (gypsum, marl, marble, project, which contributes to family history sandstone, clay); research and the reunification of families from o balneal (ozokerite, mineral waters). Alberta and Western Ukraine, to continue.

. The Carpathians contain small deposits of iron EDUCATION ore, copper, zinc, silver and gold. . According to the Competitiveness of Regions FORESTRY of Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk ranked 4th on the quality of primary education, 6th on the . More than half of the region is covered in availability of scientists and engineers, and 9th forests, and constitutes 10 per cent of on the ratio of wages to productivity. Ukrainian forested land. . There are 17 higher educational . Ivano-Frankivsk is Ukraine’s leading producer establishments of I-IV accreditation levels, of wood particle boards and wood fibre which consist of more than 40,000 students. boards. . The Ivano-Frankivsk State Medical Academy is one of the oldest and most important medical institutions in Ukraine.

. The Ivano-Frankivsk Technical Institute of Oil and Gas is the only multi-purpose educational

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