Drohobych Oil Refinery: 100 years

Lviv region, city of Drohobych, 1963. Lviv television studio.

The story ‘The Youth of a Centennial Hero’ is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Drohobych oil refinery.

The video shows: houses on the outskirts of the city, a river, black-and-white photographs and drawings from previous years of the plant's operation, an inscription on one of the plant buildings ‘100 years of the plant’, the territory, installations, workers, workshops, instruments, equipment, offices, a laboratory, a drawing workshop, a stand ‘Plant Innovators,’ photographs of employees, an inscription on a tank ‘Accept, Motherland, our labour gift!’, a freight train.

Reference: The Drohobych Oil Refinery is the oldest oil refining enterprise in Ukraine. After oil deposits were discovered in Drohobych and the surrounding villages in the mid-19th century, small oil refineries began operating in the region, and in 1863, a new large refinery, Altman and Gottlieb, was founded in Drohobych. It was a joint-stock company, named after its owners. A hundred years later, in 1963, the Drohobych Oil Refinery Association was formed on its basis, which was later renamed the Drohobych Oil Refinery. Today it is PJSC ‘Oil Refining Complex Halychyna’.