Sambor

a city under oblast jurisdiction and center of Sam-bor Raion in L’vov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Located on the Dnestr River. Junction of railroad lines to L’vov, Uzhgorod, and Truskavets; also a highway junction.

Sambor has a furniture combine, a sugar refinery, a cheese plant, maintenance and building repair plants, a plant producing road machinery, a branch of the L’vov Electric Measurement Instruments Plant, a plant producing radio parts, and a garment factory. There are also railroad transport enterprises. The city’s cultural institutions include a technicum for mechanization of accounting, a teachers college, and medical and cultural-educational schools. Sambor was founded in the 13th century.