[1] The railway station in Ivano-Frankivsk was established in 1866 when the city of Stanislau was part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria within the Austro-Hungary.

The station was built as part of the expansion of the Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis from Lemberg (Lviv) towards Czernowitz (Chernivtsi).

The first train that traveled from Lemberg to Czernowitz stopped at Stanislau on September 1, 1866.

The railways terminal became the first city's structure in Ivano-Frankivsk that was electrified on January 13, 1897.

The electricity was installed by the German company out of Berlin Siemens & Halske.