Lychakiv Cemetery History. Since its creation in 1787 as Łyczakowski Cemetery, Lychakiv Cemetery has been the main necropolis of Lviv‘s intelligentsia, middle and upper classes. Initially the cemetery was located on several hills in the borough of Lychakiv, following the imperial Austro-Hungarian edict ordering that all cemeteries be moved outside of the city limits. After...
Originally designed by Zygmunt Gorgolewski, a graduate of the Berlin Building Academy and then the director of city’s Engineering Academy, the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre was erected on former marshland of the submerged Poltva River at the end of the 19th Century, and now sits at the end of Prospect Svobody [Freedom Avenue], the tree-lined centerpiece of...
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