Title: City Morshyn Status: city of regional subordination in the Lviv region. Location: The city is situated among the Carpathian forest reserves at an altitude of 340 m above sea level, 14 km from the city Stryi, 95 km from Ivano-Frankivs'k and 82 km from Lviv. Area: 20 sq. km. Population: about 6,000 inhabitants. River: Berezhnytsya. The first mention in historical documents: 1482. Historical note: The first written mention of Morshyn is dated January 2, 1482. It is contained in court records, which said that the village Morshyn belonged to nobleman Yury Nagvazdan and was the part of the Polish kingdom. At that time Morshyn was a small village, which had 12 houses. Since ancient times, farmers of Morshyn used sources for digestion of salt. Later this trade the owners of Morshyn Branets'ki decided to take, who achieved permission of the Royal Office to open the salt mines. Five mine wells for the extraction of brine from which salt was obtained by digestion, were excavated. However, this business did not justify itself - salt of Morshyn was bitter and unfit for consumption. In connection with these saltern two names are mentioned - Peter Morshtin and Yuri Morshtin, German by birth, who took these lands on lease from the Polish king Casimir. Historians admit that the name of the city Morshyn derived from their surnames. In 1875, through Morshyn railway Stryi-Stanislviv was laid. Life of city quickened very much. The owner of settlement merchant Boniface Shtiller invited doctors B. Pyasets'kyi and S. Dzikovs'kyi to Morshyn, who decided to organize a Morshyn Hydrotherapeutic modeled on the popular in those days western resorts. In May 1878 S. Dzikovs'kyi reported on the possibility of resort in Morshyn at the meeting of "balneologic Commission" in Cracow. According to inspection results in Morshyn there were space for 12 bathrooms, three residential facilities for visitors, a wooden water pipe. Also attention was paid to three sources with a bitter-salty water. The year 1878 was the year the first formal treatment of the season with the opening of "institutions for the treatment of breast diseases". Since that time, mineral water sources of Morshyn become the subject of study. The first chemical analysis of brine source number 1 was published by professor of Lviv University B. Radzishevs'kyi in 1881. On the outskirts of Morshyn peat mud was found also - "Borovina". The holiday season in 1880 was opened with a new name - "Treatment by mineral waters and mud". Morshyn became famous mud-bath resort, the fame of which spread outside the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Morshyn was compared with the popular European resorts, and called a "Galician Spa" and "Galician Carlsbad". Morshyn brine was exported to the U.S., Britain, Italy, Romania and other countries. In 1930th in the resort baths, mud baths, inhalation and well-room of mineral water - "mushroom", which became a symbol of the city, were built. In 1935, according to the project of engineer Nikodimovich by Galician physicians Society construction of the Holiday House (now the sanatorium "Marble Palace") began. With the advent of Soviet power private pensions were combined in sanatoria, which at the beginning of 1950 were nine. In 1957 Morshyn resort polyclinic began operating. In 1960, the resort had been transferred to the control of unions. In 1977, 67,137 people were treated here. Morshyn became the resort of All-Union significance. With the advent of independence the state property of sanatoria was transferred to the management of ZAO Ukprofzdravnitsa, a subsidiary of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine. Main attractions: the mineral springs. Source of information: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Моршин