City & History

Population, elevation, climate, visitor statistics and quick answers to the questions first-time visitors ask most.

Carved verandas, steep shingle roofs and romantic names: the surviving villas of the resort's golden age and where to find them.

City status in 1948, hundred-bed sanatorium giants, 400,000 patients a year — and the reinvention after 1991. The final part of our history series.

From the first eight bath cabins to a fashionable European resort with villas, orchestras and 17,000 guests a season — the rise of Truskavets.

Long before the spa era, Truskavets lived off salt springs and, later, oil. The first part of our history series covers five centuries of beginnings.

Everything about Ukraine's most famous spa town in one place: where it is, why a million people visit every year, and how a stay here works.