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Nadvirna (Ukrainian: Надвірна, Polish: Nadwórna; Yiddish: נאדווארנא Nadverne; also referred to as...

Nadvirna (Ukrainian: Надвірна, Polish: Nadwórna; Yiddish: נאדווארנא Nadverne; also referred to as Nadwirna or Nadvorna) is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Nadvirnianskyi Raion. Until World War I, Nadvirna was integrated into the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the province of Galicia. In the inter-war years,the borders changed and it was annexed by the Second Polish Republic. It was annexed into the Ukrainian SSR by the Soviets in 1939 after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Nadvirna was occupied by the Germans in 1941 during World War II. After the war it was once again absorbed into the Ukrainian SSR. Since its independence in 1991, the city has been part of Ukraine. The town is located in a slightly hilly, verdant area twenty miles northeast of the Carpathian mountains. Major exports and raw materials from the town include salt, oil and petroleum products, and timber. The town was popular at the turn of the twentieth century as a summertime resort, with restaurants and hotels. Evidence of the early settlement in the region around Nadvirna date back to 2000 B.C. Numerous finds of Bronze Age artifacts