Yavoriv (Ukrainian: Яворів, IPA: [ˈjɑworiu̯] ⓘ; Polish: Jaworów; Yiddish: יאַוואָראָוו, romanized: Yavorov; German: Jaworiw) is a city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine.

It serves as the administrative centre of Yavoriv Raion and is situated approximately 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of the oblast capital, Lviv.

[3] In 1675 John III signed the Polish-French Treaty of Jaworów in the town,[4] and there he also received the congratulations from the Pope on his success against the Turks at Vienna (1683),[3] and ratified the formation of the Holy League alliance in 1684.

[6] Until the First Partition of Poland, Jaworów was an important center of commerce, located along main merchant route from Jarosław to Lwów.

After the war, the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission reported that more than 4900 people, most of them Jews, had been killed in Yavoriv, in addition to those sent to Bełżec.

[9] In the decades between the 1960s and 1990s the town was a sulphur mining centre;[10] excavation pits and degenerated lands remain between Yavoriv and Novoiavorivsk.

[15] Distribution of the population by ethnicity according to the 2001 census: [17] Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[18] Among notable people born here are the Russian Orthodox Stefan Yavorsky (1658–1722), an archbishop and the first president of the Most Holy Synod; the poet Osyp Makovei (1867–1925), the Polish literary historian, editor and bibliographer Ludwik Bernacki (1882–1939) the bishop Vasyl Tuchapets of the newly created Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.