Stryi (Ukrainian: Стрий, Polish: Stryj) is a city located on the left bank of the river Stryi in the Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine (in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains). Serving as the administrative center of the Stryi Raion (district), the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast. Thus, the city has two administrations - the city and the raion. Stryi considers to be the first city in Ukraine to bear the blue over yellow Ukrainian National Flag when it was hoisted on the flagpole of the Town Hall on March 14, 1990 before the fall of the Soviet regime.