Dobrómyl ’ ( , ) is a city in Staryi Sambir Raion , Lviv Oblast , Ukraine . It is located some 5 kilometers to the border with Poland . Population : . Dobromyl was first mentioned in 1374 , as a settlement founded by the Herburt family , upon request of Polish prince Władysław Opolczyk . In 1566 it was granted Magdeburg rights by the King Sigismund I the Old . Eighteen years later , Stanislaw Herburt built a castle here , the town also had a printing shop , where in 1612 the '' Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae '' ( The Annals of Jan Długosz ) were published . Until the Partitions of Poland ( 1772 ) , Dobromil was part of Przemyśl Land , Ruthenian Voivodeship . In the course of time , the branch of the Herburt family which resided in the town changed its name into Dobromilski . In 1772 , Dobromil was annexed by the Habsburg Empire , and until 1918 belonged to Austrian Galicia . After World War I , the town returned to Poland , and in the Second Polish Republic , was the seat of a county in Lwów Voivodeship . In 1921 its population was 5386 . Following the Nazi and Soviet Invasion of Poland ( September 1939 ) , Dobromil was transferred to the Soviet Union . In June 1941 , Soviet NKVD murdered here hundreds of prisoners ( see NKVD prisoner massacres ) . Under German occupation , Dobromil was transferred to Przemyśl County , District of Kraków , General Government . Its Jewish population perished in The Holocaust , and on August 8 , 1944 the town was seized by the Red Army . Currently , Dobromil belongs to Ukraine . The town has a local office of the Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land . Among famous people associated with Dobromil are :
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