Truskavets is an attractive health resort in Ukraine. It is situated in in the beginning of the Carpathians at an altitude of 350 metres above sea level. Pure, clean air nestled between wooded slopes and gently flowing rivers.

The resort lies at the distance of 100km to the south of Lviv and 90 km from the western border of Ukraine.

Great supplies of underground mineral waters from 14 natural springs and the world’s only deposit of the so-called 'mountain wax', ozocerite, are concentrated on the territory of Truskavets. The health resort enjoys great popularity. Every year nearly 200 000 people from the whole of Ukraine and abroad come here to be treated and relax.

Visitors can submit to an assortment of 60 treatments and therapies administered by trained personnel to treat various ailments, from rheumatism and arthritis, to diabetes and periodontal disease. But the spas of Truskavets are known mostly for their treatment of kidney and liver ailments, and specifically for the cleansing of sands and stones.

The key to the town's uniqueness is the mineral water that runs below the surface alongside oil deposits deep beneath the earth. During the middle of the 19th century the area around Truskavets was one of the first places in the world to be exploited for its oil reserves. The writer Ivan Franko, who hailed from the area, chronicled the life of the oil workers in his novel "Boryslav Smiyetsia." While today most of the oil is gone, the coal-like, semi-hard slag deposits, called ozocerite, remain.