Shchirets

an urban-type settlement in Pustomyty Raion, L’vov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Shchirets is located on the Shcherek River, a tributary of the Dnestr. It has a railroad station. The settlement is the site of the Steklopribor plant, a mixed-feed plant and a gypsum plant. A plant manufacturing reinforced-concrete products and an asphalt plant were under construction in Shchirets in 1978.