Uzhok Pass ( Ukrainian : Ужоцький перевал , Hungarian : Uzsoki-hágó ) is a mountain pass in the north-eastern Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine through the Vodorazdel'nyy backbone. It located on a ridge at 889 metres (2,917 ft) high.
3-479: It is located on the border of Stryi Raion ( Lviv Oblast ) and Velykyi Bereznyi Raion ( Zakarpattia Oblast ), on the watershed of San River and Uzh River . The pass is also close to the Poland-Ukraine border . In World War I , the pass was the scene of fierce fighting between the advancing Russian Army and the defending Austro-Hungarian forces in the winter of 1914–1915. This article about
6-535: A location in Ukraine is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Stryi Raion Stryi Raion ( Ukrainian : Стрийський район ) is a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine . Its administrative center is Stryi . Population: 319,464 (2022 estimate). On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was reduced to seven, and
9-437: The area of Stryi Raion was significantly expanded. Three abolished raions, Mykolaiv , Skole , and Zhydachiv Raions , as well as the cities of Morshyn , Novyi Rozdil , and Stryi, which were previously incorporated as a cities of oblast significance , were merged into Stryi Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 60,912 (2020 est.). It was established in 1939 as part of Drohobych Oblast . After
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