page_title: Slavske
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Slavske / History
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Смт. Славське Сколівського району. Церква Успення Пресвятої Богородиці (1901). This is a photo of a monument in Ukraine, number: 46-245-0073 English: Slavske. Church the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1901).
context_page_description: Slavske this is an urban-type settlement in Skole Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It's located 600 metres above sea level close to the city of Skole, 130 kilometres southwest of Lviv. Slavske is an urban village and a popular ski resort in the Skole Beskids range of the Carpathian mountains in western Ukraine. It's one of the biggest Ukrainian winter sports centers. Population: 3,366.
context_section_description: According to tradition, Slavske takes its name from a band of intrepid warriors of Early East Slavs (Drevlians) led by Prince Sviatoslav Volodymyrovich, one of the ill-fated sons of Vladimir I of Kiev killed by his half-brother Sviatopolk I in 1015. Sviatoslav was attempting to escape to Hungary after the murder of his brothers Boris and Gleb when he was intercepted by Sviatopolk's men and killed in the upper reaches of the Opir River. Opir, incidentally, means "resistance."
  Local lore identifying his burial site and stories connecting Danylo Romanovych, Prince of Volhynia and Galicia, to the Boyko Region suggest that the locality figured to an extent in the history of Kievan Rus' and Ukraine. Legend has it that the region was among those ravaged by the rampaging Mongol-Tatar horde led by Batu Khan during its campaign to invade Central Europe in 1240–41. The invasion also saw Kiev, Volodymyr-Volynskyi and Halych destroyed, thus interfering with Danylo's plans for the unification of Ukrainian territories. Material evidence of the village's existence, however, can only be traced back to the year 1483.
  Records indicate that the village later belonged to the Potocki family before being transferred to Evhen Kinsky, who then sold it to Baron Hredel.
  Following the opening of the railway line between Stryi and Mukachevo in 1878, Slavske became a popular stop.
  Slavske’s history as a winter sports centre as well as a spa town goes back to the 19th century, when it was part of Galicia – a province of Austria-Hungary. Austrians built hotels in the town, and by 1918, when the town became part of Poland, it was a very popular destination, attended mostly by tourists from nearby city of Lviv. Between 1919 and 1939 several ski lifts and ski platforms were built in Slavske and its vicinity, most of them on Pohar mountain.
caption: Slavske. Church the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1901).
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