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Lviv

February 11, 2023

"Lwów", "Lvov", and "Lemberg" redirect here. For other uses, see Lwów (disambiguation), Lvov (disambiguation), Lemberg (disambiguation), and Lviv (disambiguation).

Lviv is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the sixth-largest in Ukraine, with a population of 717,273 (2022 est.)[3]. It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion,[4] and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. It was named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia.

Lviv
Львів
City
Flag
Coat of arms
Logo
Nicknames: 
Ukrainian Piedmont[1]
Motto(s): 
"Lviv is open to the world"
"Semper fidelis" (historical)[2]
Lviv
The location of Lviv in Ukraine
Lviv
Lviv (Europe)
Coordinates: 49°50′33″N 24°01′56″E / 49.84250°N 24.03222°E / 49.84250; 24.03222Coordinates: 49°50′33″N 24°01′56″E / 49.84250°N 24.03222°E / 49.84250; 24.03222
Country Ukraine
Oblast Lviv
Raion Lviv
Founded1256
Magdeburg law1356
Government
 • MayorAndriy Sadovyi
Area
 • Total148.9 km2 (57.5 sq mi)
Elevation
296 m (971 ft)
Population
 (2022)
 • Total717,273
 • Rank6th in Ukraine
 • Density4,800/km2 (12,000/sq mi)
 • Demonym
Leopolitan
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal codes
79000–79490
Area code+380 32(2)
Licence plateBC, HC (before 2004: ТА, ТВ, ТН, ТС)
Sister citiesPlovdiv, Freiburg, Chengdu, Kraków, Lublin, Novi Sad, Przemyśl, Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Winnipeg, Vilnius, Banja Luka, Budapest, Rishon LeZion, Lodz, Rzeszów, Wroclaw, Rochdale, Corning
Websitecity-adm.lviv.ua
Official nameL'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
CriteriaCultural: ii, v
Reference865
Inscription1998 (22nd Session)
Area2,441 ha

Lviv emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia in the 14th century, superseding Halych, Chełm, Belz and Przemyśl. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia[5] from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great of Poland. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, for a short time, it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Between the wars, the city was the centre of the Lwów Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic. After the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Lviv became part of the Soviet Union.

The once large Jewish community was sharply reduced in number by the Nazis during the Holocaust. For decades there was no working synagogue in the city after the final one was closed by the Soviets. The once predominant Polish population was for the greatest part sent to Poland in the context of a population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine in 1944–46.

The historical heart of the city, with its cobblestone streets and architectural assortment of Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-classicism and Art Nouveau, survived Soviet and German occupations during World War II largely unscathed. The historic city centre is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Due to its Mediterranean aura, many Soviet movies set in places like Venice or Rome were actually shot in Lviv.[6] In 1991, Lviv became part of the independent nation of Ukraine.

The city has many industries and institutions of higher education such as Lviv University and Lviv Polytechnic. Lviv is also the home of many cultural institutions, including a philharmonic orchestra and the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet.[7]

Names and symbols

The city of Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів [lʲwiu̯] ( listen)) is also historically known as Russian: Львов, romanized: Lvov [lʲvof], Polish: Lwów [lvuf] ( listen), German: Lemberg [ˈlɛmbɛɐ̯k] ( listen), Yiddish: Lemberik (לעמבעריק) as well as a number of other names.[8]

The coat of arms, the banner of the Lviv City Council and the logo are the officially approved symbols of Lviv. The names or images of architectural and historical monuments are also considered symbols of the city by the Statute of Lviv.[9]

Lviv's modern coat of arms is based on the coat of arms from the city seal from the middle of the 14th century—a stone gate with three towers, in the opening of the gate of which walks a golden lion. Lviv's large coat of arms is a shield with the coat of arms of the city, crowned with a silver city crown with three edges, held by a lion and an ancient warrior.

Lviv's flag is a blue square banner with the city emblem image and yellow and blue triangles at the edges.

Lviv's logo is an image of five colorful towers in Lviv and the slogan "Lviv — open to the world" under them.[10] The Latin phrase Semper fidelis (Always True) was used as a motto on the former coat of arms of 1936–1939, but was no longer used after the Second World War.

Geography

 
A satellite view of Lviv (Sentinel-2,
14 August 2017)

Lviv is on the edge of the Roztochia Upland, about 70 kilometres (43 miles) east of Polish border and 160 km (99 mi) north of the eastern Carpathian Mountains. The average altitude of Lviv is 296 metres (971 feet) above sea level. Its highest point is the Vysokyi Zamok (High Castle), 409 meters (1342 feet) above sea level. This castle has a commanding view of the historic city centre with its distinctive green-domed churches and intricate architecture.

The old walled city was at the foothills of the High Castle on the banks of the Poltva River. In the 13th century, the river was used to transport goods. In the early 20th century, the Poltva was covered over in areas where it flows through the city; the river flows directly beneath Lviv's central street, Freedom Avenue (Prospect Svobody), and the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

Climate

Lviv's climate is humid continental (Köppen climate classification Dfb) with cold winters and warm summers.[11] The average temperatures are −3 °C (27 °F) in January and 18 °C (64 °F) in July.[12] The average annual rainfall is 745 mm (29 in) with the maximum in summer.[12] Mean sunshine duration per year at Lviv is about 1,804 hours.[13]

Climate data for Lviv (1991–2020, extremes 1936–present)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 14.8
(58.6) 		17.7
(63.9) 		22.4
(72.3) 		28.9
(84.0) 		32.2
(90.0) 		34.1
(93.4) 		36.3
(97.3) 		35.6
(96.1) 		34.5
(94.1) 		25.6
(78.1) 		21.6
(70.9) 		16.5
(61.7) 		36.3
(97.3)
Average high °C (°F) 0.2
(32.4) 		2.0
(35.6) 		7.0
(44.6) 		14.5
(58.1) 		19.5
(67.1) 		23.0
(73.4) 		24.7
(76.5) 		24.5
(76.1) 		19.0
(66.2) 		13.2
(55.8) 		6.8
(44.2) 		1.5
(34.7) 		13.0
(55.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) −2.7
(27.1) 		−1.5
(29.3) 		2.5
(36.5) 		9.0
(48.2) 		13.8
(56.8) 		17.3
(63.1) 		19.0
(66.2) 		18.5
(65.3) 		13.5
(56.3) 		8.4
(47.1) 		3.3
(37.9) 		−1.3
(29.7) 		8.3
(46.9)
Average low °C (°F) −5.7
(21.7) 		−4.8
(23.4) 		−1.4
(29.5) 		3.8
(38.8) 		8.4
(47.1) 		12.0
(53.6) 		13.7
(56.7) 		13.2
(55.8) 		8.7
(47.7) 		4.4
(39.9) 		0.4
(32.7) 		−4.1
(24.6) 		4.1
(39.4)
Record low °C (°F) −28.5
(−19.3) 		−29.5
(−21.1) 		−25.0
(−13.0) 		−12.1
(10.2) 		−5.0
(23.0) 		0.5
(32.9) 		4.5
(40.1) 		2.6
(36.7) 		−3.0
(26.6) 		−13.2
(8.2) 		−17.6
(0.3) 		−25.6
(−14.1) 		−29.5
(−21.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 46
(1.8) 		48
(1.9) 		48
(1.9) 		52
(2.0) 		93
(3.7) 		86
(3.4) 		96
(3.8) 		73
(2.9) 		70
(2.8) 		57
(2.2) 		50
(2.0) 		50
(2.0) 		769
(30.3)
Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) 7
(2.8) 		9
(3.5) 		4
(1.6) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		1
(0.4) 		4
(1.6) 		9
(3.5)
Average rainy days 9 9 11 14 16 17 16 14 14 14 13 11 158
Average snowy days 17 17 11 3 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 8 15 72
Average relative humidity (%) 83.0 81.3 76.5 69.3 70.7 74.0 74.9 76.3 79.4 80.3 83.8 85.1 77.9
Mean monthly sunshine hours 64 79 112 188 227 238 254 222 179 148 56 37 1,804
Source 1: Pogoda.ru.net,[12] World Meteorological Organization (humidity 1981–2010)[14]
Source 2: NOAA (sun only 1961–1990)[13][15]

History

Main articles: History of Lviv and Timeline of Lviv

Archaeologists have demonstrated that the Lviv area was settled by the fifth century,[16] with the gord at Chernecha Hora-Voznesensk Street in Lychakivskyi District attributed to White Croats.[17][18][19][20] The city of Lviv was founded in 1250 by King Daniel of Galicia (1201–1264) in the Principality of Halych of Kingdom of Ruthenia and named in honour of his son Lev[21] as Lvihorod[22][23][24] which is consistent with names of other Ukrainian cities, such as Myrhorod, Sharhorod, Novhorod, Bilhorod, Horodyshche, and Horodok.

 
A 17th century portrait depicting Knyaz Lev of Galicia-Volhynia with the city of Lviv in the background

Earlier there was a settlement in the form of a borough with a characteristic layout element—an elongated market square. Daniel's foundation of the stronghold was its next reconstruction after the Batu Khan invasion of 1240.[25][26]

Lviv was invaded by the Mongols in 1261.[27] Various sources relate the events, which range from the destruction of the castle to a complete razing of the town. All sources agree that it was on the orders of the Mongol general Burundai. The Shevchenko Scientific Society (Naukove tovarystvo im. Shevchenka) says that Burundai issued the order to raze the city. The Galician-Volhynian chronicle states that in 1261 "Said Buronda to Vasylko: 'Since you are at peace with me then raze all your castles'".[28] Basil Dmytryshyn states that the order was implied to be the fortifications as a whole: "If you wish to have peace with me, then destroy [all fortifications of] your towns".[29] According to the Universal-Lexicon der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit the town's founder was ordered to destroy the town himself.[30]

After Daniel's death, King Lev rebuilt the town around 1270 at its present location, choosing Lviv as his residence,[27] and made it the capital of Galicia-Volhynia.[31] The city is first mentioned in the Halych-Volhynian Chronicle regarding the events that were dated 1256. The town grew quickly due to an influx of Polish people from Kraków, Poland, after they had suffered a widespread famine there.[30] Around 1280 Armenians lived in Galicia and were mainly based in Lviv where they had their own Archbishop.[32]

In the 13th and early 14th centuries, Lviv was largely a wooden city, except for its several stone churches. Some of them, like the Church of Saint Nicholas, have survived, although in a thoroughly rebuilt form.[33] The town was inherited by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1340 and ruled by voivode Dmytro Dedko, the favourite of the Lithuanian prince Liubartas, until 1349.[34]

The region and the region adjacent to Lviv, Leopold, Poland, was a destination of 50,000 Armenians fleeing from the Saljuq and Mongol invasions of Armenia.[35]

Galicia–Volhynia Wars

During the wars over the succession of Galicia-Volhynia Principality in 1339 King Casimir III of Poland undertook an expedition and conquered Lviv in 1340, burning down the old princely castle.[27] Poland ultimately gained control over Lviv and the adjacent region in 1349. From then on the population was subjected to attempts to both Polonize and Catholicize the population.[36] The Lithuanians ravaged Lviv land in 1351 during the Halych-Volhyn Wars[37] with Lviv being plundered and destroyed by Prince Liubartas in 1353.[38][39]

Casimir built a new city center (or founded a new town) in a basin, surrounded it by walls, and replaced the wooden palace by masonry castle – one of the two built by him.[27][40][41] The old (Ruthenian) settlement, after it had been rebuilt, became known as the Krakovian Suburb in reference to the city of Kraków.[40]

Kingdom of Poland

 
Lviv High Castle first built in 1250 by Leo I of Halych and rebuilt in 1362 by Casimir III of Poland (engraving by A. Gogenberg, 17th century)

In 1349, the Kingdom of Ruthenia with its capital Lviv was annexed by the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. The kingdom was transformed into the Ruthenian domain of the Crown with Lwów as the capital. On 17 June 1356 King Casimir III the Great granted it Magdeburg rights, which implied that all city matters were to be resolved by a council elected by the wealthy citizens. In 1362, the High Castle was completely rebuilt with stone replacing the previous wood. In 1358, the city became a seat of Roman Catholic Archdiocese, which initiated the spread of Latin Church onto the Ruthenian lands.

After Casimir had died in 1370, he was succeeded as king of Poland by his nephew, King Louis I of Hungary, who in 1372 put Lwów together with the region of Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia under the administration of his relative Vladislaus II of Opole, Duke of Opole.[27] When in 1387 Władysław retreated from the post of its governor, Galicia-Volhynia became occupied by the Hungarians, but soon Jadwiga, the youngest daughter of Louis, but also the ruler of Poland and wife of King of Poland Władysław II Jagiełło, unified it directly with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.[27]

The city's prosperity during the following centuries is owed to the trade privileges granted to it by Casimir, King Jadwiga and the subsequent Polish monarchs.[27] Germans, Poles and Czechs formed the largest groups of newcomers. Most of the settlers were polonised by the end of the 15th century, and the city became a Polish island surrounded by Orthodox Ruthenian population.[42]

 
John II Casimir, King of Poland, pledging an oath at Lwów's Latin Cathedral, by painter Jan Matejko. Collection of the Wrocław Museum.

In 1412, the local archdiocese has developed into the Roman Catholic Metropolis, which since 1375 as diocese had been in Halych.[27] The new metropolis included regional diocese in Lwów, Przemyśl, Chełm, Włodzimierz, Łuck, Kamieniec, as well as Siret and Kijów (see Old Cathedral of St. Sophia, Kyiv). The first Catholic Archbishop who resided in Lwów was Jan Rzeszowski.

In 1434, the Ruthenian domain of the Crown was transformed into the Ruthenian Voivodeship. In 1444, the city was granted the staple right, which resulted in its growing prosperity and wealth, as it became one of the major trading centres on the merchant routes between Central Europe and Black Sea region. It was also transformed into one of the main fortresses of the kingdom, and was a royal city, like Kraków or Gdańsk. During the 17th century, Lwów was the second largest city of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, with a population of about 30,000.

In 1572, one of the first publishers of books in what is now Ukraine, Ivan Fedorov, a graduate of the University of Kraków, settled here for a brief period. The city became a significant centre for Eastern Orthodoxy with the establishment of an Orthodox brotherhood, a Greek-Slavonic school and a printer which published the first full versions of the Bible in Church Slavonic in 1580. A Jesuit Collegium was founded in 1608, and on 20 January 1661 King John II Casimir of Poland issued a decree granting it "the honour of the academy and the title of the university".[43]

The 17th century brought invading armies of Swedes, Hungarians,[44][45] Turks,[46][47] Russians and Cossacks[45] to its gates. In 1648 an army of Cossacks and Crimean Tatars besieged the town. They captured the High Castle, murdering its defenders. The city itself was not sacked due to the fact that the leader of the revolution Bohdan Khmelnytsky accepted a ransom of 250,000 ducats, and the Cossacks marched north-west towards Zamość. It was one of two major cities in Poland which was not captured during the so-called Deluge: the other one was Gdańsk (Danzig).[citation needed]

At that time, Lwów witnessed a historic scene, as here King John II Casimir made his famous Lwów Oath. On 1 April 1656, during a holy mass in Lwów's Cathedral, conducted by the papal legate Pietro Vidoni, John Casimir in a grandiose and elaborate ceremony entrusted the Commonwealth under the Blessed Virgin Mary's protection, whom he announced as The Queen of the Polish Crown and other of his countries. He also swore to protect the Kingdom's folk from any impositions and unjust bondage.[citation needed]

 
Lwów in a lithograph from 1618

Two years later, John Casimir, in honour of the bravery of its residents, declared Lwów to be equal to two historic capitals of the Commonwealth, Kraków and Vilnius.[citation needed] In the same year, 1658, Pope Alexander VII declared the city to be Semper fidelis, in recognition of its key role in defending Europe and Roman Catholicism from Muslim invasion.[citation needed]

In 1672 it was surrounded by the Ottomans who also failed to conquer it. Three years later, the Battle of Lwów (1675) took place near the city. Lwów was captured for the first time since the Middle Ages by a foreign army in 1704 when Swedish troops under King Charles XII entered the city after a short siege. The plague of the early 18th century caused the death of about 10,000 inhabitants (40% of the city's population).[48]

Habsburg Empire

 
18th century map of Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów)

In 1772, following the First Partition of Poland, the region was annexed by the Habsburg monarchy to the Austrian Partition. Known in German as Lemberg, the city became the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.[49] Lemberg grew dramatically during the 19th century, increasing in population from approximately 30,000 at the time of the Austrian annexation in 1772,[50] to 196,000 by 1910[51] and to 212,000 three years later;[52] while the poverty in Austrian Galicia was raging.[53] In the late 18th and early 19th centuries a large influx of Austrians and German-speaking Czech bureaucrats gave the city a character that by the 1840s was quite Austrian, in its orderliness and in the appearance and popularity of Austrian coffeehouses.[54]

During Habsburg's rule, Lviv became one of the most important Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish cultural centres. In Lviv, according to the Austrian census of 1910, which listed religion and language, 51% of the city's population was Roman Catholics, 28% Jews, and 19% belonged to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Linguistically, 86% of the city's population used the Polish language and 11% preferred the Ruthenian.[53]

 
The Racławice Panorama opened in 1894

In 1773, the first newspaper in Lemberg, Gazette de Leopoli, began to be published. In 1784, a Latin language university was opened with lectures in German, Polish and even Ruthenian; after closing in 1805, it was reopened in 1817. By 1825, German became the sole language of instruction.[54] Lemberg University was opened by Maria Theresa in 1784. By 1787, her successor Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor opened "Studium Ruthenum" for students who did not know enough Latin to take regular courses.[55]

During the 19th century, the Austrian administration attempted to Germanise the city's educational and governmental institutions. Many cultural organisations which did not have a pro-German orientation were closed. After the revolutions of 1848, the language of instruction at the university shifted from German to include Ukrainian and Polish. Around that time, a certain sociolect developed in the city known as the Lwów dialect. Considered to be a type of Polish dialect, it draws its roots from numerous other languages besides Polish. In 1853, kerosene lamps as street lighting were introduced by Ignacy Łukasiewicz and Jan Zeh. Then in 1858, these were updated to gas lamps, and in 1900 to electric ones.

 
Stanisław Skarbek Theatre in 1900

After the so-called "Ausgleich" of February 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into a dualist Austria-Hungary and a slow yet steady process of liberalisation of Austrian rule in Galicia started. From 1873, Galicia was de facto an autonomous province of Austria-Hungary, with Polish and Ruthenian as official languages. Germanisation was halted and the censorship lifted as well. Galicia was subject to the Austrian part of the Dual Monarchy, but the Galician Sejm and provincial administration, both established in Lviv, had extensive privileges and prerogatives, especially in education, culture, and local affairs. In 1894, the General National Exhibition was held in Lviv.[56] The city started to grow rapidly, becoming the fourth largest in Austria-Hungary, according to the census of 1910. Many Belle Époque public edifices and tenement houses were erected, with many of the buildings from the Austrian period, such as the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, built in the Viennese neo-Renaissance style.

 
The Galician Sejm (until 1918), since 1920 the Jan Kazimierz University

At that time, Lviv was home to a number of renowned Polish-language institutions, such as the Ossolineum, with the second-largest collection of Polish books in the world, the Polish Academy of Arts, the National Museum (since 1908), the Historical Museum of the City of Lwów (since 1891), the Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists, the Polish Historical Society, Lwów University, with Polish as the official language since 1882, the Lwów Scientific Society, the Lwów Art Gallery, the Polish Theatre, and the Polish Archdiocese.

Furthermore, Lviv was the centre of a number of Polish independence organisations. In June 1908, Józef Piłsudski, Władysław Sikorski and Kazimierz Sosnkowski founded here the Union of Active Struggle. Two years later, the paramilitary organisation, called the Riflemen's Association, was also founded in the city by Polish activists.

At the same time, Lviv became the city where famous Ukrainian writers (such as Ivan Franko, Panteleimon Kulish and Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky) published their work. It was a centre of Ukrainian cultural revival. The city also housed the largest and most influential Ukrainian institutions in the world, including the Prosvita society dedicated to spreading literacy in the Ukrainian language, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the Dniester Insurance Company and base of the Ukrainian cooperative movement, and it served as the seat of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Lviv was also a major centre of Jewish culture, in particular as a centre of the Yiddish language, and was the home of the world's first Yiddish-language daily newspaper, the Lemberger Togblat, established in 1904.[57]

First World War

 
Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów) in 1915

In the Battle of Galicia at the early stages of the First World War, Lviv was captured by the Russian army in September 1914 following the Battle of Gnila Lipa. The Lemberg Fortress fell on 3 September. The historian Pál Kelemen provided a first-hand account of the chaotic evacuation of the city by the Austro-Hungarian Army and civilians alike.[58]

The town was retaken by Austria-Hungary in June the following year during the Gorlice–Tarnów offensive. Lviv and its population, therefore, suffered greatly during the First World War as many of the offensives were fought across its local geography causing significant collateral damage and disruption.[59]

Polish–Ukrainian War

Further information: Polish–Ukrainian War
 
Ukrainian Sich Riflemen fought on the Ukrainian side in November 1918. The picture was made by one of the contemporaries of event.
 
The Lwów Eaglets, teenage soldiers who fought on the Polish side during the Battle of Lwów

After the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of the First World War Lwów became an arena of battle between the local Polish population and the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. Both nations perceived the city as an integral part of their new statehoods which at that time were forming in the former Austrian territories. On the night of 31 October – 1 November 1918 the Western Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed with Lwów as its capital. 2,300 Ukrainian soldiers from the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (Sichovi Striltsi), which had previously been a corps in the Austrian Army, made an attempt to take over Lviv. The city's Polish majority opposed the Ukrainian declaration and began to fight against the Ukrainian troops.[60] During this combat an important role was taken by young Polish city defenders called Lwów Eaglets.

The Ukrainian forces withdrew outside Lwów's confines by 21 November 1918, after which elements of Polish soldiers began to loot and burn much of the Jewish and Ukrainian quarters of the city, killing approximately 340 civilians (see: Lwów pogrom).[61] The retreating Ukrainian forces besieged the city. The Sich riflemen reformed into the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA). The Polish forces aided from central Poland, including General Haller's Blue Army, equipped by the French, relieved the besieged city in May 1919 forcing the UHA to the east.

Despite Entente mediation attempts to cease hostilities and reach a compromise between belligerents the Polish–Ukrainian War continued until July 1919 when the last UHA forces withdrew east of the River Zbruch. The border on the River Zbruch was confirmed at the Treaty of Warsaw, when in April 1920 Field Marshal Piłsudski signed an agreement with Symon Petlura where it was agreed that for military support against the Bolsheviks the Ukrainian People's Republic renounced its claims to the territories of Eastern Galicia.

In August 1920, Lwów was attacked by the Red Army under the command of Aleksandr Yegorov and Stalin during the Polish–Soviet War but the city repelled the attack.[62] For the courage of its inhabitants Lwów was awarded the Virtuti Militari cross by Józef Piłsudski on 22 November 1920.

On 23 February 1921, the council of the League of Nations declared that Galicia (including the city) lay outside the territory of Poland and that Poland did not have the mandate to establish administrative control in that country, and that Poland was merely the occupying military power of Galicia (as a whole[63]), whose sovereign remained the Allied Powers and fate would be determined by the Council of Ambassadors at the League of Nations.[64] On 14 March 1923, the Council of Ambassadors decided that Galicia would be incorporated into Poland "whereas it is recognised by Poland that ethnographical conditions necessitate an autonomous regime in the Eastern part of Galicia."[65] "This proviso was never honoured by the interwar Polish government." After 1923, Galicia was internationally recognized as part of the Polish state.[63]

Interwar period

 
A panorama of Lwów before 1924

During the interwar period, Lwów held the rank of the Second Polish Republic's third most populous city (following Warsaw and Łódź), and it became the seat of the Lwów Voivodeship. Following Warsaw, Lwów was the second most important cultural and academic centre of interwar Poland. For example, in 1920 professor Rudolf Weigl of the Lwów University developed a vaccine against typhus fever. Furthermore, the geographic location of Lwów gave it an important role in stimulating international trade and fostering the city's and Poland's economic development. A major trade fair called Targi Wschodnie was established in 1921. In the academic year 1937–1938, there were 9,100 students attending five institutions of higher education, including the Lwów University as well as the Polytechnic.[66]

 
Eastern Trade Fair (Targi Wschodnie), main entrance.[67]

While about two-thirds of the city's inhabitants were Poles, some of whom spoke the characteristic Lwów dialect, the eastern part of the Lwów Voivodeship had a relative Ukrainian majority in most of its rural areas. Although Polish authorities obliged themselves internationally to provide Eastern Galicia with an autonomy (including a creation of a separate Ukrainian university in Lwów) and even though in September 1922 adequate Polish Sejm's Bill was enacted,[68] it was not fulfilled.

The Polish government discontinued many Ukrainian schools which functioned during the Austrian rule,[69] and closed down Ukrainian departments at the University of Lwów with the exception of one.[70] Prewar Lwów also had a large and thriving Jewish community, which constituted about a quarter of the population.

Unlike in Austrian times, when the size and number of public parades or other cultural expressions corresponded to each cultural group's relative population, the Polish government emphasised the Polish nature of the city and limited public displays of Jewish and Ukrainian culture. Military parades and commemorations of battles at particular streets within the city, all celebrating the Polish forces who fought against the Ukrainians in 1918, became frequent, and in the 1930s a vast memorial monument and burial ground of Polish soldiers from that conflict was built in the city's Lychakiv Cemetery.

World War II and the Soviet incorporation

Further information: Battle of Lwów (1939)

Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 and by 14 September Lwów was completely encircled by German Army units.[71] Subsequently, the Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September. On 22 September 1939 Lwów capitulated to the Red Army. The USSR annexed the eastern half of the Second Polish Republic with Ukrainian and Belorussian populations. The city became the capital of the newly formed Lviv Oblast. The Soviets reopened uni-lingual Ukrainian schools, which were discontinued by the Polish government.

The only change over imposed by the Soviets was the language of instruction, with the actual net loss of about 1,000 schools in short order.[72] Ukrainian was made compulsory in the University of Lviv with almost all its books in Polish[citation needed]. It became thoroughly Ukrainized and was renamed after Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko. The Polish academics were laid off.[73] Soviet rule turned out to be much more oppressive than Polish rule; the rich world of Ukrainian publications in Polish Lwów, for instance, was gone in Soviet Ukrainian Lviv, and many journalism jobs were lost with it.[74]

German occupation

Main article: Battle of Lwów (1941)

On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany and several of its allies invaded the USSR. In the initial stage of Operation Barbarossa (30 June 1941) Lviv was taken by the Germans. The evacuating Soviets killed most of the prison population, with arriving Wehrmacht forces easily discovering evidence of the Soviet mass murders in the city[75] committed by the NKVD and NKGB. Ukrainian nationalists, organised as a militia, and the civilian population was allowed to take revenge on the "Jews and the Bolsheviks" and indulged in several mass killings in Lviv and the surrounding region, which resulted in the deaths estimated at between 4,000 and 10,000 Jews. On 30 June 1941 Yaroslav Stetsko proclaimed in Lviv the Government of an independent Ukrainian state allied with Nazi Germany. This was done without preapproval from the Germans and after 15 September 1941, the organisers were arrested.[76][77][78]

 
The Lvov Holocaust memorial in Israel

The Sikorski–Mayski Agreement signed in London on 30 July 1941 between Polish government-in-exile and USSR's government invalidated the September 1939 Soviet-German partition of Poland, as the Soviets declared it null and void.[79] Meanwhile, German-occupied Eastern Galicia at the beginning of August 1941 was incorporated into the General Government as Distrikt Galizien with Lviv as the district's capital. German policy towards the Polish population in this area was as harsh as in the rest of the General Government.[80]

Germans during the occupation of the city committed numerous atrocities including the killing of Polish university professors in 1941. German Nazis viewed the Ukrainian Galicians, former inhabitants of Austrian Crown Land, as to some point more aryanised and civilised than the Ukrainian population living in the territories belonging to the USSR before 1939. As a result, they escaped the full extent of German acts in comparison to Ukrainians who lived to the east, in the German-occupied Soviet Ukraine turned into the Reichskommissariat Ukraine.[80]

 
The imprisoned Tango of Death orchestra

According to the Third Reich's racial policies, local Jews then became the main target of German repressions in the region. Following the German occupation, the Jewish population was concentrated in the Lwów Ghetto established in the city's Zamarstynów (today Zamarstyniv) district and the Janowska concentration camp was also set up. In the Janowska concentration camp, the Nazis conducted torture and executions to music. The Lviv National Opera members, who were prisoners, played one and the same tune, Tango of Death.[citation needed]

On the eve of Lviv's liberation, German Nazis ordered 40 orchestra musicians to form a circle. The security ringed the musicians tightly and ordered them to play. First, the orchestra conductor, Mund, was executed. Then the commandant ordered the musicians to come to the center of the circle one by one, put their instruments onto the ground and strip naked, after which they were killed by a headshot.[citation needed] A photo of the orchestra players was one of the incriminating documents at the Nuremberg trials.

In 1931 there were 75,316 Yiddish-speaking inhabitants, but by 1941 approximately 100,000 Jews were present in Lviv.[81] The majority of these Jews were either killed within the city or deported to Belzec extermination camp. In the summer of 1943, on the orders of Heinrich Himmler, SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel was tasked with the destruction of any evidence of Nazi mass murders in the Lviv area. On 15 June Blobel, using forced labourers from Janowska, dug up a number of mass graves and incinerated the remains.[82]

Later, on 19 November 1943, inmates at Janowska staged an uprising and attempted a mass escape. A few succeeded, but most were recaptured and killed. The SS staff and their local auxiliaries then, at the time of the Janowska camp's liquidation, murdered at least 6,000 more inmates, as well as the Jews in other forced labour camps in Galicia. By the end of the war, the Jewish population of the city was virtually eliminated, with only around 200 to 800 survivors remaining.[83][84]

Liberation from Germany

Main article: Lwów uprising

After the successful Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive of July 1944, the Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army captured Lwów on 27 July 1944, with significant cooperation from the local Polish resistance. Soon thereafter, the local commanders of Polish Armia Krajowa were invited to a meeting with the commanders of the Red Army. During the meeting, they were arrested, as it turned out to be a trap set by the Soviet NKVD. Later, in the winter and spring of 1945, the local NKVD kept arresting and harassing Poles in Lwów (which according to Soviet sources on 1 October 1944 still had a clear Polish majority of 66.7%) in an attempt to encourage their emigration from the city.[85]

Those arrested were released only after they had signed papers in which they agreed to emigrate to Poland, which postwar borders were to be shifted westwards in accordance with the Yalta conference settlements. In Yalta, despite Polish objections, the Allied leaders, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill decided that Lwów should remain within the borders of the Soviet Union. Roosevelt wanted Poland to have Lwów and the surrounding oilfields, but Stalin refused to allow it.[85]

On 16 August 1945, a border agreement[86] was signed in Moscow between the government of the Soviet Union and the Provisional Government of National Unity installed by the Soviets in Poland. In the treaty, Polish authorities formally ceded the prewar eastern part of the country to the Soviet Union, agreeing to the Polish-Soviet border to be drawn according to the Curzon Line. Consequently, the agreement was ratified on 5 February 1946.

Soviet Era

In February 1946, Lviv became a part of the Soviet Union. It is estimated that from 100,000 to 140,000 Poles were resettled from the city into the so-called Recovered Territories as a part of postwar population transfers, many of them to the area of newly acquired Wrocław, formerly the German city of Breslau. Many buildings in the old part of the city are examples of Polish architecture, which flourished in Lviv after the opening of the Technical School (later Polytechnic), the first higher-education technical academy in Polish lands. Polytechnic educated generations of architects who were influential in the entire country. Examples are: the main buildings of Lviv Polytechnic, University of Lviv, Lviv Opera, Lviv railway station, former building of Galicyjska Kasa Oszczędności, Potocki Palace.[87]

During the interwar period, Lviv was striving to become a modern metropolis, so architects experimented with modernism. It was the period of the most rapid growth of the city, so one can find many examples of architecture from this time in the city.[citation needed] Examples include the main building of Lviv Academy of Commerce, the second Sprecher's building or building of City Electrical Facilities.[citation needed] One monument of the Polish past is the Adam Mickiewicz Monument at the square bearing his name.[citation needed]

Many Polish pieces of art and sculpture can be found in Lviv galleries, among them works by Jan Piotr Norblin, Marcello Bacciarelli, Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Antoni Brodowski, Henryk Rodakowski, Artur Grottger, Jan Matejko, Aleksander Gierymski, Jan Stanisławski, Leon Wyczółkowski, Józef Chełmoński, Józef Mehoffer, Stanisław Wyspiański, Olga Boznańska, Władysław Słowiński, Jacek Malczewski.[citation needed] Poles who stayed in Lviv have formed the organisation the Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land.

According to various estimates, Lviv lost between 80% and 90% of its prewar population.[88] Expulsion of the Polish population and the Holocaust together with migration from Ukrainian-speaking surrounding areas (including forcibly resettled from the territories which, after the war, became part of the Polish People's Republic), from other parts of the Soviet Union, altered the ethnic composition of the city. Immigration from Russia and Russian-speaking regions of Eastern Ukraine was encouraged[citation needed]. The prevalence of the Ukrainian-speaking population has led to the fact that under the conditions of Soviet Russification,[citation needed] Lviv became a major centre of the dissident movement in Ukraine and played a key role in Ukraine's independence in 1991.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the city expanded both in population and size mostly due to the city's rapidly growing industrial base. Due to the fight of SMERSH with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Lviv obtained a nickname with a negative connotation of Banderstadt as the City of Stepan Bandera. The German suffix for the city stadt was added instead of the Russian grad to imply alienation. Over the years the residents of the city found this so ridiculous that even people not familiar with Bandera accepted it as sarcasm in reference to the Soviet perception of western Ukraine. In the period of liberalisation from the Soviet system in the 1980s, the city became the centre of political movements advocating Ukrainian independence from the USSR. By the time of the fall of the Soviet Union the name became a proud mark for the Lviv natives culminating in the creation of a local rock band under the name Khloptsi z Bandershtadtu (Boys from Banderstadt).[89]

On 17 September 1989 Lviv saw the largest rally in support of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union, gathering some 100,000 participants.[90]

Independent Ukraine

Citizens of Lviv strongly supported Viktor Yushchenko during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election and played a key role in the Orange Revolution. Hundreds of thousands of people would gather in freezing temperatures to demonstrate for the Orange camp. Acts of civil disobedience forced the head of the local police to resign and the local assembly issued a resolution refusing to accept the fraudulent first official results.[91] Lviv remains today one of the main centres of Ukrainian culture and the origin of much of the nation's political class.

In support of the Euromaidan movement, Lviv's executive committee declared itself independent of the rule of President Viktor Yanukovych on 19 February 2014.[92]

In 2019 citizens of Lviv supported Petro Poroshenko during the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. The number of votes for Poroshenko was determined by more than 90%. Despite this support, he lost the national vote.

Until 18 July 2020, Lviv was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the center of Lviv Municipality. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Lviv Municipality was merged into the newly established Lviv Raion.[93][94]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lviv became the nation's de facto western capital in February 2022 as some embassies, government agencies, and media organizations were relocated from Kyiv due to a direct military threat to the capital.[95] Lviv also became a safe haven for the Ukrainians fleeing other parts of the country affected by the invasion, their number exceeding 200,000 as of 18 March 2022. Many used the city as a stopping point on their way to Poland. Lviv and the larger region around it also served as crucial arms and humanitarian supply route.[90] Bracing for Russian attacks, local government and citizens, helped by the Polish and Croatian advisers, worked to protect the city's cultural heritage by erecting makeshift barriers around historical monuments, wrapping statues, and safeguarding art treasures.[96]

In the course of the war, the area in and around Lviv was struck by Russian missile attacks, hitting the Yavoriv military training base on 13 March 2022, the Lviv State Aircraft Repair Plant near the Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport on 18 March 2022,[90] and a fuel depot and other facilities within the city limits on 26 March 2022.[97]

According to Mayor Andriy Sadoviy, on 18 April 2022, the city was hit by five missile strikes. Seven civilians were killed and 11 were wounded. Regional governor Maksym Kozystkiy said that the targets were military factories and a tyre shop. A hotel housing evacuees was hit, damaging windows. On 18 April, TASS quoted the Russian Ministry of Defence that confirmed 315 targets were struck by Russian missiles overnight. The statement claimed that all targets were of a military nature.[98]

Lviv was targeted during the 10 October 2022 missile strikes on Ukraine, resulting in a city-wide blackout.[99] On 11 October 2022, Mayor Sadoviy reported that the city was hit by a missile strike, resulting in a power outage and water supply shortage.[100]

Administrative division

Main article: Administrative divisions of Lviv

Lviv is divided into six raions (districts), each with its own administrative bodies:

Notable suburbs include Vynnyky (місто Винники), Briukhovychi (селище Брюховичі), and Rudne (селище Рудне).

Demographics

Lviv residents live 75 years on average, and this age is 7 years longer than the average age in Ukraine and 8 years more than the world average (68 years). In 2010 the average life expectancy was 71 among men and 79.5 years among women.[101] The fertility rates have been steadily increasing between 2001 and 2010; however, the effects of low fertility in the previous years remained noticeable even though the birth rates grew. There is an acute shortage of young people under the age of 25. In 2011, 13.7% of Lviv's population consisted of young people under 15 years and 17.6% of persons aged 60 years and over.[102]

Historical populations

Language use throughout 20th century
Language 1931 1970 1979 1989
Ukrainian  11.3%  65.2%  71.3%  77.2%
Russian    31.1%  25.7%  19.9%
Yiddish  24.1%      
Polish  63.5%      
Other  1.1%  3.7%  3.0%  2.9%
Population structure by religion 1869–1931
Community 1869[103] 1890[104] 1900[105] 1910[106] 1921[106] 1931[107]
Roman Catholic 53.1% 52.6% 51.7% 51% 51% 50.4%
Jewish 30.6% 28.2% 27.7% 28% 35% 31.9%
Greek Catholic 14.2% 17.1% 18.3% 19% 12% 15.9%
Population makeup by ethnicity 1900–2001
Ethnicity 1900[108] 1931[107] 1944[109] 1950 1959[110] 1979[110] 1989[110] 2001[111]
Ukrainians 19.9% 15.9% 26.4% 49.9% 60.0% 74.0% 79.1% 88.1%
Russians 0.0% 0.2% 5.5% 31.2% 27.0% 19.3% 16.1% 8.9%
Jews 26.5% 31.9% 6.4% 6.0% 2.7% 1.6% 0.3%
Poles 49.4% 50.4% 63% 10.3% 4.0% 1.8% 1.2% 0.9%
 
Ethnicity in Lviv according to censuses of 1989 and 2001 respectively
Ukrainians 622,800 79.1% 88.1%
Russians 126,418 16.1% 8.9%
Jews 12,837 1.6% 0.3%
Poles 9,697 1.2% 0.9%
Belarusians 5,800 0.7% 0.4%
Armenians 1,000 0.1% 0.1%
Total 778,557
Numbers do not include regions nor the surrounding towns.[112][full citation needed]

Ethnic Polish population

Year Poles % Total
1921[116] 112,000 51 219,400
1989 9,500[119] 1.2[111] 790,908[120]
2001[111] 6,400 0.9 725,200

Ethnic Poles and the Polish Jews began to settle in Lwów in considerable numbers already in 1349 after the city was conquered by King Casimir of the Piast dynasty. Lwów served as Poland's major cultural and economic centre for several centuries, during the Polish Golden Age, and until the partitions of Poland perpetrated by Russia, Prussia, and Austria.[121] In the Second Polish Republic, the Lwów Voivodeship (inhabited by 2,789,000 people in 1921) grew to 3,126,300 inhabitants in ten years.[122]

As a result of World War II, Lviv was de-Polonised, mainly through Soviet-arranged population exchange in 1944–1946 but also by early deportations to Siberia.[123] Those who remained on their own volition after the border shift became a small ethnic minority in Lviv. By 1959 Poles made up only 4% of the local population. Many families were mixed.[123] During the Soviet decades only two Polish schools continued to function: No. 10 (with 8 grades) and No. 24 (with 10 grades).[123]

In the 1980s the process of uniting groups into ethnic associations was allowed. In 1988 a Polish-language newspaper was permitted (Gazeta Lwowska).[124] The Polish population of the city continues to use the dialect of the Polish language known as Lwów dialect (Polish: gwara lwowska).[124]

Jewish population

The first known Jews in Lviv date back to the tenth century.[125] The oldest remaining Jewish tombstone dates back to 1348.[125] Apart from the Rabbanite Jews there were many Karaites who had settled in the city after coming from the East and from Byzantium. After Casimir III conquered Lviv in 1349 the Jewish citizens received many privileges equal to that of other citizens of Poland. Lviv had two separate Jewish quarters, one within the city walls and one outside on the outskirts of the city. Each had its separate synagogue, although they shared a cemetery, which was also used by the Crimean Karaite community. Before 1939 there were 97 synagogues.

Before the Holocaust about one-third of the city's population was made up of Jews (more than 140,000 on the eve of World War II). This number swelled to about 240,000 by the end of 1940 as tens of thousands of Jews fled from the Nazi-occupied parts of Poland into the relative (and temporary) sanctuary of Soviet-occupied Poland (including Lviv) following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact that divided Poland into Nazi and Soviet zones in 1939. Most of the Jewish population was killed in the Holocaust. Meanwhile, the Nazis also destroyed the Jewish cemetery, which was subsequently "paved over by the Soviets".[125]

Due to the Holocaust and migration, the original Jewish population of the city all but vanished. After the war, the remnant was replenished by a newer Jewish population, formed from among the hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians who migrated to the city. The post-war Jewish population peaked at 30,000 in the 1970s. Currently, the Jewish population has shrunk considerably as a result of emigration (mainly to Israel and the United States) and, to a lesser degree, assimilation, and is estimated to number a few thousand.[126] A number of organisations continue to be active.

 
One can still find pre-war German, Polish, Yiddish ghost signs around the city.

The Sholem Aleichem Jewish Culture Society in Lviv initiated the construction of a monument to the victims of the ghetto in 1988. On 23 August 1992, the memorial complex to the victims of the Lwów ghetto (1941–1943) was officially opened.[127] During 2011–2012, some anti-Semitic acts against the memorial took place. On 20 March 2011, it was reported that the slogan "death to the Jews" with a swastika was sprayed on the monument.[128] On 21 March 2012, the memorial was vandalized by unknown individuals, in what seemed to be an anti-Semitic act.[129]

Economy

 
E19101 electric bus – product of the Electron

Lviv is the most important business centre of Western Ukraine. As of 1 January 2011, the city has invested 837.1 million US dollars into the economy, accounting for almost two-thirds of total investment in the Lviv region. In 2015, the companies of Lviv received $14.3 million of foreign direct investment; which is however two times less than a year earlier ($30.9 million in 2014).[130] During January–September 2017 the general amount of direct foreign investment received by the local government in Lviv is $52.4 million. According to the statistics administration, foreign capital was invested by 31 countries (some of the main investors: Poland – 47.7%; Australia – 11.3%; Cyprus – 10.7% and the Netherlands – 6%).[131]

The total revenue of the city budget of Lviv for 2015 is set at about UAH 3.81 billion, which is 23% more than a year earlier (UAH 2.91 billion in 2014).[132] As of 10 November 2017, the deputies of the Lviv City Council approved a budget in amount of UAH 5.4 billion ($204 million). The large part of which (UAH 5.12 billion) was the revenue of the fund of the Lviv.[133][134]

The average wage in Lviv in 2015 in the business sector amounted to 14,041 UAH, in the budget sphere - 9,475 UAH.[135] On 1 February 2014, registered unemployment was 0.6%.[136] Lviv is one of the largest cities in Ukraine and is growing rapidly. According to the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine the monthly average salary in Lviv is a little less than the average for Ukraine which in February 2013 was 6050 UAH ($755). According to the World Bank classification Lviv is a middle-income city. In June 2019, the average wage amounted to 23,000 UAH ($920), which is 18,9% more than in the previous year.[137][138]

Lviv has 218 large industrial enterprises, more than 40 commercial banks, 4 exchanges, 13 investment companies, 80 insurance and 24 leasing companies, 77 audit firms and almost 9,000 small ventures.[139] For many years machinery-building and electronics were leading industries in Lviv. The city-based public company Electron, trademark of national television sets manufacturing, produces the 32 and 37 inches liquid-crystal TV-sets. The Electrontrans specializes in design and production of modern electric transport including trams, trolleybuses, electric buses, and spare parts. In 2013 Elektrotrans JV started producing low-floor trams, the first Ukrainian 100% low-floor tramways.[140] LAZ is a bus manufacturing company in Lviv with its own rich history. Founded in 1945, LAZ started bus production in the early 1950s. Innovative design ideas of Lviv engineers have become the world standard in bus manufacturing.[citation needed]

The total volume of industrial production sold in 2015 amounted to UAH 24.2 billion, which is 39% more than a year earlier (UAH 14.6 billion in 2014).[141][142]

There are several banks based in Lviv, such as Kredobank, Idea Bank, VS Bank, Oksi Bank and Lviv Bank. None of these banks have bankrupted during the political and economic crisis of 2014–2016. It can be explained by the presence of foreign capital in most of them.

From 2015 to 2019, the city experienced a construction boom. In Q1 2019, according to statistical data, growth in the volume of new housing construction was recorded in Lviv (3.2 times, to 377,900 square meters).[143]

Lviv is a major business center between Warsaw and Kyiv. According to the Lviv Economic Development Strategy, the main branches of the city's economy by 2025 should become tourism and information technologies (IT), the business services and logistics are also a priority.[144] In addition, The Nestlé service center is in Lviv. This center guides the company's divisions in 20 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.[145] Also during 2016 the Global Service Center VimpelCom in Lviv was launched, which serves finance, procurement and HR operations in eight foreign branches of this company.[146]

There are many restaurants and shops as well as street vendors of food, books, clothes, traditional cultural items and tourist gifts. Banking and money trading are an important part of the economy of Lviv with many banks and exchange offices throughout the city.

Information technology

Lviv is also one of the leaders of software export in Eastern Europe with expected sector growth of 20% by 2020.[147] Over 15% of all IT specialists in Ukraine work in Lviv, with over 4100 new IT graduates coming from local universities each year. About 2,500 tech enthusiasts attended Lviv IT Arena, the largest technology conference in Western Ukraine.[148] Over 24,000 IT specialists work in Lviv as of 2019.[149] Lviv is among top five most popular Ukrainian cities for opening R&D center in IT and IT outsourcing spheres together with Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Odesa.[150]

In 2009, KPMG, one of the well-known international auditing companies, included Lviv in top 30 cities with the greatest potential of information technology development.[151] As of December 2015, there were 192 IT-companies operating in the city, of which 4 large (with more than 400 employees), 16 average (150–300 employees), 97 small (10–110 employees) and 70 micro companies (3–7 employees). From 2017 to 2018 the amount of IT-companies raised to 317.[149]

The turnover of Lviv's IT industry in 2015 amounted to $300 million U.S. About 50% of IT services are exported to the US, 37% to Europe, and the rest to other countries. As of 2015, about 15 thousand specialists were employed in this industry with an average salary of 28 thousand UAH. According to a study of the Economic Effect of the Lviv IT-Market, which was conducted by Lviv IT Cluster and sociological agency "The Farm", there are 257 IT companies operating in Lviv in 2017, that employ about 17 thousand specialists. The economic impact of the IT industry in Lviv is $734 million U.S.[152]

There are 15 top universities in Lviv, 5 of which prepare highly skilled specialists in computer and IT technologies and supply over 1,000 IT graduates to the market annually.[153]

Lviv IT outsourcing companies gathered[when?] all kinds of Ukrainian developers in one place, resulting in many front-end interns, JavaScript developers, back-end and full-stack coders with proper qualifications, experience, and good English language skills. Some IT companies in Lviv offer outsourcing software services to international corporations rather than developing their software product.[154]

Culture

L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
UNESCO World Heritage Site
 
Town view from High Castle
CriteriaCultural: ii, v
Reference865
Inscription1998 (22nd Session)
Area120 ha
Buffer zone2,441 ha

Lviv is one of Ukraine's most important cultural centres. It is known as a centre of art, literature, music and theatre. Nowadays, the evidence of the city's cultural richness is the number of theatres, concert halls, and creative unions, and the high number of artistic activities (more than 100 festivals annually, 60 museums, and 10 theatres).

Lviv's historic centre has been on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage list since 1998. UNESCO gave the following reasons[155] for its selection:

Criterion II: In its urban fabric and its architecture, Lviv is an outstanding example of the fusion of the architectural and artistic traditions of central and eastern Europe with those of Italy and Germany.

Criterion V: The political and commercial role of Lviv attracted to it a number of ethnic groups with different cultural and religious traditions, who established separate yet interdependent communities within the city, evidence for which is still discernible in the modern town's landscape.

Architecture

Lviv's historic churches, buildings and relics date from the 13th century to the early 20th century (Polish and Austro-Hungarian rule). In recent centuries Lviv was spared some of the invasions and wars that destroyed other Ukrainian cities. Its architecture reflects various European styles and periods. After the fires of 1527 and 1556 Lviv lost most of its gothic-style buildings but it retains many buildings in renaissance, baroque and the classic styles. There are works by artists of the Vienna Secession, Art Nouveau and Art Deco.

The buildings have many stone sculptures and carvings, particularly on large doors, which are hundreds of years old. The remains of old churches dot the central cityscape. Some three- to five-storey buildings have hidden inner courtyards and grottoes in various states of repair. Some cemeteries are of interest: for example, the Lychakivskiy Cemetery where the Polish elite was buried for centuries. Leaving the central area the architectural style changes radically as Soviet-era high-rise blocks dominate. In the centre of the city, the Soviet era is reflected mainly in a few modern-style national monuments and sculptures.

Monuments

Outdoor sculptures in the city commemorate many notable individuals and topics reflecting the rich and complex history of Lviv. There are monuments to Adam Mickiewicz, Ivan Franko, King Danylo, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Fedorov, Solomiya Krushelnytska, Ivan Pidkova, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Pope John Paul II, Jan Kiliński, Ivan Trush, Saint George, Bartosz Głowacki, the monument to the Virgin Mary, to Nikifor, The Good Soldier Švejk, Stepan Bandera, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and many others.

During the interwar period there were monuments commemorating important figures of Polish history. Some of them were moved to the Polish "Recovered Territories" after World War II, like the monument to Aleksander Fredro, which now is in Wrocław, the monument of King John III Sobieski, which after 1945 was moved to Gdańsk, and the monument of Kornel Ujejski, which is now in Szczecin. A book market takes place around the monument to Ivan Fеdorovych, a typographer in the 16th century who fled Moscow and found a new home in Lviv.

New ideas came to Lviv during Austro–Hungarian rule. In the 19th century, many publishing houses, newspapers and magazines were established. Among these was the Ossolineum which was one of the most important Polish scientific libraries. Most Polish-language books and publications of the Ossolineum library are still kept in a local Jesuit church. In 1997 the Polish government asked the Ukrainian government to return these documents to Poland. In 2003, Ukraine allowed access to these publications for the first time. In 2006, an office of the Ossolineum (now in Wrocław) opened in Lviv and began scanning all its documents. Works written in Lviv contributed to Austrian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, and Polish literature, with a multitude of translations.

Religion

Lviv is a city of religious variety. Religion (2012): Catholic: 57% (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 56% and Roman Catholic Church 1%), Orthodox: 32%, Protestantism: 2%, Judaism: 0.1%, Other religion: 3%, Indifferent to religious matters: 4%, Atheism: 1.9%.[156]

Christianity

At one point, over 60 churches existed in the city. The largest Christian Churches have existed in the city since the 13th century. The city has been the seat of the Catholic Church in 3 rites: The Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv, the Roman Catholics, and the Armenian Church. Each has had a diocesan seat in Lviv since the 16th century. At the end of the 16th century, the Orthodox community in Ukraine transferred their allegiance to the Pope in Rome and became the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. This bond was forcibly dissolved in 1946 by the Soviet authorities and the Roman Catholic community was forced out by the expulsion of the Polish population. Since 1989, religious life in Lviv has experienced a revival.

Lviv is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv, the centre of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine and until 21 August 2005 was the centre of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. About 35 percent of religious buildings belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, 11.5 percent to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, 9 per cent to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate and 6 per cent to the Roman Catholic Church.

Until 2005, Lviv was the only city with two Catholic Cardinals: Lubomyr Husar (Byzantine Rite) and Marian Jaworski (Latin Rite).

In June 2001, Pope John Paul II visited the Latin Cathedral, St. George's Cathedral and the Armenian Cathedral.

Judaism

Lviv historically had a large and active Jewish community and until 1941 at least 45 synagogues and prayer houses existed. Even in the 16th century, two separate communities existed. One lived in today's old town with the other in the Krakowskie Przedmieście. The Golden Rose Synagogue was built in Lviv in 1582. In the 19th century, a more differentiated community started to spread out. Liberal Jews sought more cultural assimilation and spoke German and Polish. On the other hand, Orthodox and Hasidic Jews tried to retain the old traditions. Between 1941 and 1944, the Germans in effect completely destroyed the centuries-old Jewish tradition of Lviv. Most synagogues were destroyed and the Jewish population was forced first into a ghetto before being forcibly transported to concentration camps where they were murdered.[157]

Under the Soviet Union, synagogues remained closed and were used as warehouses or cinemas. The last functioning synagogue was closed in the 1960s.[158] Only since the fall of the Iron Curtain, has the remainder of the Jewish community experienced a faint revival.

Currently, the only functioning Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Lviv is the Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue.

Arts

 
A room in the
Lviv National Art Gallery

The range of artistic Lviv is impressive. On the one hand, it is the city of classical art. Lviv Opera and Lviv Philharmonic are places that can satisfy the demands of true appraisers of the classical arts. This is the city of one of the most distinguished sculptors in Europe, Johann Georg Pinzel, whose works can be seen on the façade of the St. George's Cathedral in Lviv and in the Pinzel Museum. This is also the city of Solomiya Krushelnytska, who began her career as a singer in Lviv Opera and later became the prima donna of La Scala Opera in Milan.

The "Group Artes" was a young movement founded in 1929. Many of the artists studied in Paris and travelled throughout Europe. They worked and experimented in different areas of modern art: Futurism, Cubism, New Objectivity and Surrealism. Co–operation took place between avant-garde musicians and authors. Altogether thirteen exhibitions by "Artes" took place in Warsaw, Kraków, Łódz and Lviv. The German occupation put an end to this group. Otto Hahn was executed in 1942 in Lviv and Aleksander Riemer was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.[159]

Henryk Streng and Margit Reich-Sielska were able to escape the Holocaust (or Shoah). Most of the surviving members of Artes lived in Poland after 1945. Only Margit Reich-Sielska (1900–1980) and Roman Sielski (1903–1990) stayed in Soviet Lviv. For years the city was one of the most important cultural centres of Poland with such writers as Aleksander Fredro, Gabriela Zapolska, Leopold Staff, Maria Konopnicka and Jan Kasprowicz living in Lviv.

Today Lviv is a city of fresh ideas and unusual characters. There are about 20 galleries (Lviv Municipal Art Center, The "Dzyga" Gallery, Art-Gallery "Primus", Gallery of the History of Ukrainian Military Uniforms, Gallery of Modern Art "Zelena Kanapa" and others). Lviv National Art Gallery is the largest museum of arts in Ukraine, with approximately 50,000 artworks, including paintings, sculptures and works of graphic art from Western and Eastern Europe, from the Middle Ages to the modern days.

Theatre and opera

 
The Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre, an important cultural centre for residents and visitors

In 1842 the Skarbek Theatre was opened making it the third-largest theatre in Central Europe. In 1903 the Lviv National Opera house, which at that time was called the City-Theatre, was opened emulating the Vienna State Opera house. The house initially offered a changing repertoire such as classical dramas in German and Polish language, opera, operetta, comedy and theatre. The opera house is named after the Ukrainian opera diva Salomea Krushelnytska who worked here.

In the Janowska concentration camp, the Nazis conducted torture and executions to music. To do so they brought almost the whole Lviv National Opera to the camp. Professor Shtriks, opera conductor Mund and other famous Jewish musicians were among the members. From 1941 to 1944 the Nazis massacred 200,000 people including all 40 musicians.[160]

Nowadays Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet has a large creative group of performers who strive to maintain traditions of Ukrainian opera and classical ballet. The Theatre is a well-organized creative body where over 500 people work towards a common goal. The repertoire includes 10 Ukrainian music compositions. No other similar theatre in Ukraine has such a large number of Ukrainian productions. There are also many operas written by foreign composers, and most of these operas are performed in the original language: Othello, Aida, La Traviata, Nabucco, and A Masked Ball by G. Verdi, Tosca, La Bohème and Madame Butterfly by G. Puccini, Cavalleria Rusticana by P. Mascagni, and Pagliacci by R. Leoncavallo (in Italian); Carmen by G. Bizet (in French), The Haunted Manor by S. Moniuszko (in Polish)

Museums and art galleries

 
The main building of Lviv National Museum

Museum Pharmacy "Pid Chornym Orlom" (Beneath the Black Eagle) was founded in 1735 - it is the oldest pharmacy in Lviv. A museum related to pharmaceutical history was opened on the premises of the old pharmacy in 1966. The idea of creating such a museum had already come up in the 19th century. The Galician Association of Pharmacists was created in 1868. Members managed to assemble a small collection of exhibits, thus making the first step towards creating a new museum. The exhibition space has expanded considerably, with 16 exhibit rooms and a general exhibition surface totalling 700 sq. m. There are more than 3,000 exhibits in the museum. This is the only operating Museum Pharmacy in Ukraine and Europe.

The most notable of the museums are Lviv National Museum which houses the National Gallery. Its collection includes more than 140,000 unique items. The museum takes special pride in presenting the largest and most complete collection of medieval sacral art of the 12th to 18th centuries: icons, manuscripts, rare ancient books, decoratively carved pieces of art, metal and plastic artworks, and fabrics embroidered with gold and silver. The museum also boasts a unique monument of Ukrainian Baroque style: the Bohorodchansky Iconostasis. Exhibits include Ancient Ukrainian art from the 12th to 15th centuries, Ukrainian art from the 16th to 18th centuries, and Ukrainian art from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century.

Music

Lviv has an active musical and cultural life. Apart from the Lviv Opera, it has symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras and the Trembita Chorus. Lviv has one of the most prominent music academies and music colleges in Ukraine, the Lviv Conservatory, and a factory for stringed musical instruments. Lviv has been the home of numerous composers, such as Mozart's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Stanislav Liudkevych, Wojciech Kilar and Mykola Kolessa.

Flute virtuoso and composer Albert Franz Doppler (1821–1883) was born and spent his formative years here, including flute lessons from his father. The classical pianist Mieczysław Horszowski (1892–1993) was born here. The opera diva Salomea Kruszelnicka called Lviv her home from the 1920s to 1930s. The classical violinist Adam Han Gorski was born here in 1940. "Polish Radio Lwów" was a Polish radio station that went on air on 15 January 1930. The programme proved very popular in Poland. Classical music and entertainment was aired as well as lectures, readings, youth programmes, news and liturgical services on Sunday.

 
Pikkardiyska Tertsiya – Ukrainian a cappella musical formation

Popular throughout Poland was the Comic Lwów Wave a cabaret-revue with musical pieces. Jewish artists contributed a great part to this artistic activity. Composers such as Henryk Wars, songwriters Emanuel Szlechter and Wiktor Budzyński, the actor Mieczysław Monderer and Adolf Fleischer ("Aprikosenkranz und Untenbaum") worked in Lviv. The most notable stars of the shows were Henryk Vogelfänger and Kazimierz Wajda who appeared together as the comic duo "Szczepko and Tońko" and were similar to Laurel and Hardy.

The Lviv Philharmonic is a major cultural centre with a long history and traditions that complement Ukraine's entire culture. From the stage of Lviv Philharmonic began their way to the great art world-famous Ukrainian musicians Oleh Krysa, Oleksandr Slobodyanik, Yuriy Lysychenko, and Maria Chaikovska, as well as the younger musicians E. Chupryk, Y. Ermin, Oksana Rapita, and Olexandr Kozarenko. Lviv Philharmonic is one of Ukraine's leading concert institutions. Its activities include international festivals, cycles of concerts-monographs, and concerts with young musicians.

The Chamber Orchestra "Lviv virtuosos" was organised by the best Lviv musicians in 1994. The orchestra consists of 16–40 persons / it depends on programmes/ and in the repertoire are included the musical compositions from Bach, Corelli to modern Ukrainian and European composers. During the short time of its operation, the orchestra acquired the professional level of the best European standards. It is mentioned in more than 100 positive articles by Ukrainian and foreign musical critics.

Lviv is the hometown of the Vocal formation "Pikkardiyska Tertsiya" and Eurovision Song Contest 2004 winner Ruslana who has since become well known in Europe and the rest of the world. PikkardiyskaTertsia was created on 24 September 1992 in Lviv and has won many musical awards. It all began with a quartet performing ancient Ukrainian music from the 15th century, along with adaptations of traditional Ukrainian folk songs.

Lviv Organ Hall is a place where classical music (organ, symphonic, cameral) and art meet together. 50,000 visitors each year, dozens of musicians from all over the world.[citation needed] Lviv is also the hometown of one of the most successful and popular Ukrainian rock bands, Okean Elzy.

Universities and academia

 
The front façade of the Lviv University, the oldest university in Ukraine

Lviv University is one of the oldest in Central Europe and was founded as a Society of Jesus (Jesuit) school in 1608. Its prestige greatly increased through the work of philosopher Kazimierz Twardowski (1866–1938) who was one of the founders of the Lwów-Warsaw School of Logic. This school of thought set benchmarks for academic research and education in Poland. The Polish politician of the interbellum period Stanisław Głąbiński had served as dean of the law department (1889–1890) and as the university rector (1908–1909). In 1901 the city was the seat of the Lwów Scientific Society among whose members were major scientific figures. The most well-known were the mathematicians Stefan Banach, Juliusz Schauder and Stanisław Ulam who were founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics turning Lviv in the 1930s into the "World Centre of Functional Analysis" and whose share in Lviv academia was substantial.

In 1852 in Dublany (eight km (5.0 mi) from the outskirts of Lviv) the Agricultural Academy was opened and was one of the first Polish agricultural colleges. The academy was merged with the Lviv Polytechnic in 1919. Another important college of the interbellum period was the Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów.

In 1873 Lviv has founded Shevchenko Scientific Society from the beginning it attracted the financial and intellectual support of writers and patrons of Ukrainian background.

In 1893 due to the change in its statute, the Shevchenko Scientific Society was transformed into a real scholarly multidisciplinary academy of sciences. Under the presidency of the historian, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, it greatly expanded its activities, contributing to both the humanities and the physical sciences, law and medicine, but most specifically once again it was concentrated on Ukrainian studies. The Soviet Union annexed the eastern half of the Second Polish Republic including the city of Lwów which capitulated to the Red Army on 22 September 1939. Upon their occupation of Lviv, the Soviets dissolved the Shevchenko society. Many of its members were arrested and either imprisoned or executed.

Mathematics

 
The building of the former Scottish Café

Lviv was the home of the Scottish Café, where in the 1930s and the early 1940s, Polish mathematicians from the Lwów School of Mathematics met and spent their afternoons discussing mathematical problems. Stanisław Ulam who was later a participant in the Manhattan Project and the proposer of the Teller-Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, Stefan Banach one of the founders of functional analysis, Hugo Steinhaus, Karol Borsuk, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Mark Kac and many other notable mathematicians would gather there.[161] The café building now houses the Atlas Deluxe Hotel at 27 Taras Shevchenko Prospekt (prewar Polish street name: ulica Akademicka).[162] Mathematician Zygmunt Janiszewski died in Lviv on 3 January 1920.

Print and media

Ever since the early 1990s, Lviv has been the spiritual home of the post-independence Ukrainian-language publishing industry. Lviv Book Forum (International Publishers' Forum) is the biggest book fair in Ukraine. Lviv is the centre of promotion of the Ukrainian Latin alphabet (Latynka). The most popular newspapers in Lviv are "Vysoky Zamok", "Ekspres", "Lvivska hazeta", "Ratusha", Subotna poshta", "Hazeta po-lvivsky", "Postup" and others. Popular magazines include "Lviv Today", "Chetver", "RIA" and "Ї". "Lviv Today" is a Ukrainian English-speaking magazine, whose content includes information about the business, advertisement and entertainment spheres in Lviv, and the country in general.

The Lviv oblast television company transmits on channel 12. There are three private television channels operating from Lviv: "LUKS", "NTA" and "ZIK".

There are 17 regional and all-Ukrainian radio stations operating in the city.

A number of information agencies exist in the city such as "ZIK", "Zaxid.net", "Гал-info", "Львівський портал" and others.

Lviv is home to one of the oldest Polish-language newspapers "Gazeta Lwowska" which was first published in 1811 and still exists in a bi-weekly form. Among other publications were such titles as

Starting in the 20th century a new movement started with authors from Central Europe. In Lviv a small neo-romantic group of authors formed around the lyricist Schmuel Jankev Imber.[who?][citation needed] Small print offices produced collections of modern poems and short stories and through emigration a large networkwas established. A second smaller group[who?] in the 1930s tried to create a connection between avantgarde art and Yiddish culture. Members of this group were Debora Vogel, Rachel Auerbach and Rachel Korn. The Holocaust destroyed this movement with Debora Vogel amongst many other Yiddish authors murdered by the Germans in the 1940s.[citation needed]

In cinema and literature

  • The book Tango of Death based on the true story of Jacob Mund, his orchestra, and dozens of thousands of other Jews who lived in Lviv at World War II. The book includes 60 documentary photos to show the violent truth of the Holocaust.
  • The 2011 film In Darkness, Poland's entry in the 84th Academy Awards category for Best Foreign Film, is based on a true incident in Nazi-occupied Lviv.
  • Some of the Austrian road-movie Blue Moon was shot in Lviv.
  • Parts of the film and novel Everything Is Illuminated take place in Lviv.
  • Brian R. Banks' Muse & Messiah: The Life, Imagination & Legacy of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) has several pages which discuss the history and cultural-social life of the Lviv region. The book includes a CD-ROM with many old and new photographs and the first English map of nearby Drohobych.
  • The book The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Krystyna Chiger takes place in Lviv.
  • Large parts of 1997 film The Truce depicting Primo Levi's war experiences were shot in Lviv.
  • Large portions of the film d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers were shot in central Lviv.
  • The book The Lemberg Mosaic (2011) by Jakob Weiss describes Jewish L'viv (Lemberg/Lwow/Lvov) during the period 1910–1943, focusing primarily on the Holocaust and related events.
  • In the book and film The Shoes of the Fisherman the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv is released from a Soviet labor camp and later elected Pope.
  • The 2015 film Varta 1, a movie which demonstrates the search for a new cinema features among young Ukrainian directors. The film uses the radio talks of the automobile patrols of activists of Lviv during EuroMaydan and it was made to create a better understanding of the nature of the revolution. The movie was shot and made in Lviv city.
  • In the book East West Street: On the Origins of 'Genocide' and 'Crimes Against Humanity', Philippe Sands, a professor of law at University College London, recounts the life and work of Hersch Lauterpacht who introduced to international law the concept of the crime against humanity and Raphael Lemkin that of genocide. Both men lived and studied in Lviv.[164]

Parks

 
Ivan Franko Park

Lviv's architectural face is complemented and enriched with numerous parks, and public gardens. There are over 20 basic recreation park zones, three botanical gardens and 16 natural monuments. They offer a splendid chance to escape from city life or simply sit for a while among the trees, at a nice fountain or a lake. Each park has its individual character which reflects through various monuments and their individual history.

  • Ivan Franko Park, is the oldest park in the city. Traces of that time may be found in three-hundred-year-old oak and maple trees. Upon the abrogation of the Jesuit order in 1773 the territory became the town property. A well-known gardener Bager arranged the territory in the landscape style, and most of the trees were planted within 1885–1890.
  • Bohdan Khmelnytsky Culture and Recreation Park, is one of the best organised and modern green zones containing a concert and dance hall, stadium, the town of attractions, central stage, numerous cafes and restaurants. In the park, there is a Ferris wheel.
 
Stryiskyi park
  • Stryiskyi Park, it is considered one of the most picturesque parks in the city. The park numbers over 200 species of trees and plants. It is well known for a vast collection of rare and valuable trees and bushes. At the main entrance gate, you will find a pond with swans.
  • Znesinnya Park is an ideal site for cycling, skiing sports, and hiking. Public organisations favour conducting summer camps here (ecological and educational, educational and cognitive).
  • Shevchenkivskyi Hay, in the park there is an open-air museum of Ukrainian wooden architecture.
  • High Castle Park, the park is situated on the highest city hill (413 m or 1,355 ft) and occupies the territory of 36 ha (89 acres) consisting of the lower terrace once called Knyazha Hora (Prince Mount), and the upper terrace with a television tower and artificial embankment.
  • Zalizni Vody Park, the park originated from the former garden Zalizna Voda (Iron water) combining Snopkivska street with Novyi Lviv district. The park owes its name to the springs with high iron concentration. This beautiful park with ancient beech trees and numerous paths is a favourite place for many locals.
  • Lychakivskyi Park, founded in 1892 and named after the surrounding suburbs. A botanic garden is situated on the park territory, founded in 1911 and occupying the territory of 18.5 ha (45.7 acres).

Sport

Lviv was an important centre for sport in Central Europe and is regarded as the birthplace of Polish football. Lviv is the Polish birthplace of other sports. In January 1905 the first Polish ice-hockey match took place there and two years later the first ski-jumping competition was organised in nearby Sławsko. In the same year, the first Polish basketball games were organised in Lviv's gymnasiums. In autumn 1887 a gymnasium by Lychakiv Street (pol. ulica Łyczakowska) held the first Polish track and field competition with such sports as the long jump and high jump. Lviv's athlete Władysław Ponurski represented Austria in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. On 9 July 1922 the first official rugby game in Poland took place at the stadium of Pogoń Lwów in which the rugby team of Orzeł Biały Lwów divided itself into two teams – "The Reds" and "The Blacks". The referee of this game was a Frenchman by the name of Robineau.

 
A clock in Lviv on Prospekt Svobody (Freedom Ave.), showing time to start of EURO 2012. Opera and Ballet Theatre in background

The first known official goal in a Polish football match was scored there on 14 July 1894 during the Lwów-Kraków game. The goal was scored by Włodzimierz Chomicki who represented the team of Lviv. In 1904 Kazimierz Hemerling from Lviv published the first translation of the rules of football into Polish and another native of Lviv, Stanisław Polakiewicz, became the first officially recognised Polish referee in 1911 the year in which the first Polish Football Federation was founded in Lviv.

The first Polish professional football club, Czarni Lwów opened here in 1903 and the first stadium, which belonged to Pogoń, in 1913. Another club, Pogoń Lwów, was four times football champion of Poland (1922, 1923, 1925 and 1926). In the late 1920s, as many as four teams from the city played in the Polish Football League (Pogoń, Czarni, Hasmonea and Lechia). Hasmonea was the first Jewish football club in Poland. Several notable figures of Polish football came from the city including Kazimierz Górski, Ryszard Koncewicz, Michał Matyas and Wacław Kuchar.

In the period 1900–1911 opened the most famous football clubs in Lviv. Professor Ivan Bobersky has based in the Academic grammar school the first Ukrainian sports circle where schoolboys were engaged in track and field, football, boxing, hockey, skiing, tourism and sledge sports in 1906. He organised the "Ukrainian Sports circle" in 1908. Much its pupils in due course in 1911 formed a sports society with the loud name "Ukraine" – the first Ukrainian football club in Lviv.[165]

Lviv now has several major professional football clubs and some smaller clubs. Two teams from the city, FC Rukh Lviv and FC Lviv, currently play in the Ukrainian Premier League, the top level of football in the country. FC Karpaty Lviv, founded in 1963, has historically been the largest club in the city. At the end of the 2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League season, Karpaty was expelled from the league for failing to appear to two games.[166] They currently play in the Ukrainian Second League, the third level of Ukrainian football. Sometimes citizens of Lviv assemble on the central street (Freedom Avenue) to watch and cheer during outdoor broadcasts of games.

There are three major stadiums in Lviv. One of them is the Ukraina Stadium which is leased to FC Karpaty Lviv until 2018. Arena Lviv is a brand-new football stadium that was an official venue for Euro 2012 Championship games in Lviv. Construction work began on 20 November 2008 and was completed by October 2011. The opening ceremony took place on 29 October, with a vast theatrical production dedicated to the history of Lviv.[167] Arena Lviv is the home ground of FC Lviv, and played host to Shakhtar Donetsk between 2014 and 2016 due to the ongoing war in Donbas.

Lviv's chess school enjoys a good reputation; such notable grandmasters as Vassily Ivanchuk, Leonid Stein, Alexander Beliavsky, Andrei Volokitin used to live in Lviv.[168] Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk lives in Lviv.

Lviv was originally bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympics,[169] but has withdrawn and will now most likely bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Tourism

 
Market (Rynok) Square

Market (Rynok) Square is a major tourist attraction in Lviv.

Due to a comprehensive cultural programme and tourism infrastructure (having more than 8,000 hotel rooms, over 1300 cafes and restaurants,[170] free WI-Fi zones in the city centre, and good connection with many countries of the world), Lviv is considered one of Ukraine's major tourist destinations.[171] The city had a 40% increase in tourist visits in the early 2010s; the highest rate in Europe.[171]

The most popular tourist attractions include the Old Town, and the Market Square (Ukrainian: Ploshcha Rynok) which is an 18,300 m2 (196,980 sq ft) square in the city centre where the City Hall is situated, as well as the Black House (Ukrainian: Chorna Kamyanytsia), Armenian Cathedral, the complex of the Dormition Church which is the main Orthodox church in the city; the St. Peter and Paul Church of the Jesuit Order (one of the largest churches in Lviv); along with the Korniakt Palace, now part of the Lviv History Museum.

Other prominent sites include the Latin Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary; St. George's Cathedral of the Greek-Catholic Church; the Dominican Church of Corpus Christi; Chapel of the Boim family; the Lviv High Castle (Ukrainian: Vysokyi Zamok) on a hill overlooking the centre of the city; the Union of Lublin Mound; the Lychakivskiy Cemetery where the notable people were buried; and the Svobody Prospekt which is Lviv's central street. Other popular places include Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the Potocki Palace, and the Bernardine Church.

Popular culture

 
A confectioner makes chocolate lions at the Festival of Chocolate

The native residents of the city are jokingly known as the Lvivian batiary (someone who's mischievous). Lvivians are also well known for their way of speaking that was greatly influenced by the Lvivian gwara (talk).[172]Wesoła Lwowska Fala (Polish for Lwów's Merry Wave) was a weekly radio program of the Polish Radio Lwow with Szczepko and Tonko, later starring in Będzie lepiej and The Vagabonds. The Shoes of the Fisherman, both Morris L. West's novel and its 1968 film adaptation, had the titular pope as having been its former archbishop.[clarification needed][citation needed]

Lviv has established many city feasts, such as coffee and chocolate feasts, cheese & wine holiday, the feast of pampukh, the Day of Batyar, Annual Bread Day and others. Over 50 festivals happen in Lviv, such as Leopolis Jazz Fest, an international jazz festival; the Leopolis Grand Prix, an international festival of vintage cars; international festival of academic music Virtuosi; Stare Misto Rock Fest; medieval festival Lviv Legend; international Etnovyr folklore festival, initiated by UNESCO; international festival of visual art Wiz-Art; international theatrical festival Golden Lion; Lviv Lumines Fluorescent Art Festival; Festival of Contemporary Dramaturgy; international contemporary music festival Contrasts; Lviv international literary festival, Krayina Mriy; gastronomic festival Lviv on a Plate; organ music festival Diapason; international independent film festival KinoLev; international festival LvivKlezFest; and international media festival MediaDepo.[citation needed]

Lviv honors the memory of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych. The Lviv regional council approved an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on March 16, 2021, requesting that the largest stadium here be renamed after these two men.[173] Bandera led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought alongside Nazi Germany during WWII, killing thousands of Jews and Poles.[174] In 1940, Shukhevych commanded a military unit of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) that actively collaborated with the Nazis.[175]

Public transport

See also: Trams in Lviv
 
A Lviv tram in the Old Town.

Historically, the first horse-drawn tramway lines in Lviv were inaugurated on 5 May 1880. An electric tram was introduced on 31 May 1894. The last horse-drawn line was transferred to electric traction in 1908. In 1922 the tramways were switched to driving on the right-hand side. After the annexation of the city by the Soviet Union, several lines were closed but most of the infrastructure was preserved. The tracks are narrow-gauge, unusual for the Soviet Union, but explained by the fact that the system was built while the city was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and needed to run in narrow medieval streets in the centre of town.

The Lviv tramway system now runs about 220 cars on 75 km (47 mi) of track. Many tracks were reconstructed around 2006. The price in February 2019 of a tram/trolleybus ticket was 5 UAH (the reduced fare ticket was 2.5 UAH, e.g. for students). The ticket may be purchased from the driver.

After World War II the city grew rapidly due to evacuees returning from Russia, and the Soviet Government's vigorous development of heavy industry. This included the transfer of entire factories from the Urals and others to the newly "liberated" territories of the USSR. The city centre tramway lines were replaced with trolleybuses on 27 November 1952. New lines were opened to the blocks of flats at the city outskirts.

The network now runs about 100 trolleybuses – mostly of the 1980s Skoda 14Tr and LAZ 52522. From 2006 to 2008 11 modern low-floor trolleybuses (LAZ E183) built by the Lviv Bus Factory were purchased. The public bus network is represented by mini-buses (so-called marshrutka) and large buses mainly LAZ and MAN. On 1 January 2013, the city had 52 public bus routes. The price is 7.00 UAH regardless of the distance travelled. The ticket may be purchased from the driver.

Railways

Main article: Lviv Railways

Modern Lviv remains a hub on which nine railways converge providing local and international services. Lviv railway is one of the oldest in Ukraine. The first train arrived in Lviv on 4 November 1861. The main Lviv Railway Station, designed by Władysław Sadłowski, was built in 1904 and was considered one of the best in Europe from both the architectural and technical aspects.

In the inter-war period, Lviv (known then as Lwów) was one of the most important hubs of the Polish State Railways. The Lwów junction consisted of four stations in mid-1939 – main station Lwów Główny (now Ukrainian: Lviv Holovnyi), Lwów Kleparów (now Lviv Klepariv), Lwów Łyczaków (now Lviv Lychakiv), and Lwów Podzamcze (now Lviv Pidzamche). In August 1939 just before World War II, 73 trains departed daily from the Main Station including 56 local and 17 fast trains. Lwów was directly connected with all major centres of the Second Polish Republic as well as such cities as Berlin, Bucharest, and Budapest.[176]

Currently, several trains cross the nearby Polish–Ukrainian border (mostly via Przemyśl in Poland). There are good connections to Slovakia (Košice) and Hungary (Budapest).[citation needed] Many routes have overnight trains with sleeping compartments. Lviv railway is often called the main gateway from Ukraine to Europe although buses are often a cheaper and more convenient way of entering the "Schengen" countries.

Lviv used to have a Railbus, which has since been replaced with other means of public transport. It was a motor-rail car that ran from the largest district of Lviv to one of the largest industrial zones going through the central railway station. It made seven trips a day and was meant to provide a faster and more comfortable connection between the remote urban districts. The price in February 2010 of a one-way single ride in the railbus was 1.50 UAH. On 15 June 2010, the route was cancelled as unprofitable.

Air transport

The beginnings of aviation in Lviv reach back to 1884 when the Aeronautic Society was opened there. The society issued its own magazine Astronauta but soon ceased to exist. In 1909 on the initiative of Edmund Libanski the Awiata Society was founded. Among its members there was a group of professors and students of the Lviv Polytechnic, including Stefan Drzewiecki and Zygmunt Sochacki. Awiata was the oldest Polish organization of this kind and it concentrated its activities mainly on exhibitions such as the First Aviation Exhibition which took place in 1910 and featured models of aircraft built by Lviv students.[177]

In 1913–1914 brothers Tadeusz and Władysław Floriańscy built a two-seater aeroplane. When World War I broke out Austrian authorities confiscated it but did not manage to evacuate the plane in time and it was seized by the Russians who used the plane for intelligence purposes. The Floriański brothers' plane was the first Polish-made aircraft. On 5 November 1918, a crew consisting of Stefan Bastyr and Janusz de Beaurain carried out the first-ever flight under the Polish flag taking off from Lviv's Lewandówka (now Ukrainian: Levandivka) airport.[177] In the interbellum period Lwów was a major centre of gliding with a notable Gliding School in Bezmiechowa which opened in 1932. In the same year the Institute of Gliding Technology was opened in Lwów and was the second such institute in the world. In 1938 the First Polish Aircraft Exhibition took place in the city.

The interwar Lwów was also a major centre of the Polish Air Force with the Sixth Air Regiment located there. The Regiment was based at the Lwów airport opened in 1924 in the suburb of Skniłów (today Ukrainian: Sknyliv). The airport is located 6 km (4 mi) from the city centre.[178] In 2012, after renovation, Lviv Airport got a new official name Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport (LWO).[179] A new terminal and other improvements worth under a $200 million has been done in preparation for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship.[180] The connection from Airport to the city centre is maintained by bus No. 48 and No. 9.

Bicycle lanes

 
Police patrol by bicycles in the tourist area of Lviv

Cycling is a new but growing mode of transport in Lviv. In 2011 the City of Lviv ratified an ambitious 9-year program for the set-up of cycling infrastructure[181] – until the year 2019 an overall length of 270 km (168 mi) cycle lanes and tracks shall be realized. A working group formally organised within the City Council, bringing together representatives of the city administration, members of planning and design institutes, local NGOs and other stakeholders. Events like the All-Ukrainian Bikeday[182] or the European Mobility Week[183] show the popularity of cycling among Lviv's citizens.

By September 2011, 8 km (5 mi) of new cycling infrastructure had been built. It can be expected that until the end of 2011 50 km (31 mi) will be ready for use. The cycling advisor in Lviv – the first such position in Ukraine – is supervising and pushing forward the execution of the cycling plan and coordinates with various people in the city. The development of cycling in Ukraine is currently hampered by outdated planning norms and the fact, that most planners didn't yet plan and experience cycling infrastructure. The update of national legislation and training for planners is therefore necessary.

In 2015, the first stations have been set up for a new bike-sharing system Nextbike – the first of its kind in Ukraine. New bike lanes are also under construction, making Lviv the most bike-friendly city in the country. The City Council plans to build an entire cycling infrastructure by 2020, with cycle lanes (268 km or 167 mi) and street bike hire services.

Education

Main article: List of universities in Ukraine

Lviv is an important education centre in Ukraine. The city contains a total of 12 universities, 8 academies and a number of smaller schools of higher education. In addition, within Lviv, there is a total of eight institutes of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine and more than forty research institutes. These research institutes include the Centre of Institute for Space Research; the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics; the Institute of Cell Biology; the National Institute of Strategic Studies; the Institute of Neuro-mathematical Simulation in Power Engineering; and the Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians.

In Soviet times, the city of Lviv was the location where the software for the Lunokhod programme was developed. The technology for the Venera series probes and the first orbital shuttle Buran were also developed in Lviv.

A considerable scientific potential is concentrated in the city: by the number of doctors of sciences, candidates of sciences, scientific organisations Lviv is the fourth city in Ukraine. Lviv is also known for ancient academic traditions, founded by the Assumption Brotherhood School and the Jesuit Collegium. Over 100,000 students annually study in more than 50 higher educational establishments.

Educational level of residents:[184]

  • Basic and complete secondary education: 10%
  • Specialized secondary education: 25%
  • Incomplete higher education (undergraduates): 13%
  • Higher education (graduates): 51%
  • PhD (postgraduates): about 1%

Universities

 
Anatomy Department Building of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University - one of the oldest and prime medical institute of Ukraine.
  • Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (ukr. Львівський національний університет імені Івана Франка)
  • Lviv Polytechnic (ukr. Національний університет "Львівська політехніка")
  • Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University (ukr. Львiвський національний медичний унiверситет iм. Данила Галицького)
  • Lviv Stepan Gzhytsky national university of veterinary medicine and biotechnologies (ukr. Львівський національний університет ветеринарної медицини та біотехнологій імені Степана Гжицького)
  • National Forestry Engineering University of Ukraine (ukr. Український національний лісотехнічний університет)
  • Ukrainian Catholic University (ukr. Український католицький університет)
  • The Lviv National Academy of Arts (ukr. Львівська національна академія мистецтв)
  • Lviv National Agrarian University (ukr. Львівський національний аграрний університет)
  • Lviv State University of Physical Training (ukr. Львівський державний університет фізичної культури)
  • Lviv Academy of Commerce (ukr. Львівська комерційна академія)
  • Lviv State University of Life Safety (ukr. Львівський державний університет безпеки життєдіяльності)
  • Lviv State University of Interior (ukr. Львівський державний університет внутрішніх справ)

Notable people

Main article: List of Leopolitans

International relations

Twin towns and sister cities

 
Aleksander Fredro Monument, moved from Lviv to Wrocław, its sister city, after World War II
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Ukraine

See also

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Bibliography

See also: Bibliography of the history of Lviv

External links

  • Official website (in Ukrainian)
  • Lviv.com
  • Official travel website
  • Lviv, Ukraine at JewishGen
  • Old maps of Lviv - Historic Cities

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lviv, lwów, lvov, lemberg, redirect, here, other, uses, lwów, disambiguation, lvov, disambiguation, lemberg, disambiguation, disambiguation, largest, city, western, ukraine, sixth, largest, ukraine, with, population, 2022, serves, administrative, centre, oblas. Lwow Lvov and Lemberg redirect here For other uses see Lwow disambiguation Lvov disambiguation Lemberg disambiguation and Lviv disambiguation Lviv is the largest city in western Ukraine and the sixth largest in Ukraine with a population of 717 273 2022 est 3 It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion 4 and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine It was named in honour of Leo the eldest son of Daniel King of Ruthenia Lviv LvivCityFrom top left to right Historic Centre of LvivLviv Theatre of Opera and BalletDormition ChurchChurch of Sts Olha and ElizabethMarket SquarePotocki PalaceFlagCoat of armsLogoNicknames Ukrainian Piedmont 1 Motto s Lviv is open to the world Semper fidelis historical 2 LvivThe location of Lviv in UkraineShow map of UkraineLvivLviv Europe Show map of EuropeCoordinates 49 50 33 N 24 01 56 E 49 84250 N 24 03222 E 49 84250 24 03222 Coordinates 49 50 33 N 24 01 56 E 49 84250 N 24 03222 E 49 84250 24 03222Country UkraineOblast LvivRaionLvivFounded1256Magdeburg law1356Government MayorAndriy SadovyiArea Total148 9 km2 57 5 sq mi Elevation296 m 971 ft Population 2022 Total717 273 Rank6th in Ukraine Density4 800 km2 12 000 sq mi DemonymLeopolitanTime zoneUTC 2 EET Summer DST UTC 3 EEST Postal codes79000 79490Area code 380 32 2 Licence plateBC HC before 2004 TA TV TN TS Sister citiesPlovdiv Freiburg Chengdu Krakow Lublin Novi Sad Przemysl Tbilisi Kutaisi Winnipeg Vilnius Banja Luka Budapest Rishon LeZion Lodz Rzeszow Wroclaw Rochdale CorningWebsitecity adm wbr lviv wbr uaUNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficial nameL viv the Ensemble of the Historic CentreCriteriaCultural ii vReference865Inscription1998 22nd Session Area2 441 haLviv emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia in the 14th century superseding Halych Chelm Belz and Przemysl It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia Volhynia 5 from 1272 to 1349 when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great of Poland From 1434 it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland In 1772 after the First Partition of Poland the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria In 1918 for a short time it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People s Republic Between the wars the city was the centre of the Lwow Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic After the German Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 Lviv became part of the Soviet Union The once large Jewish community was sharply reduced in number by the Nazis during the Holocaust For decades there was no working synagogue in the city after the final one was closed by the Soviets The once predominant Polish population was for the greatest part sent to Poland in the context of a population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine in 1944 46 The historical heart of the city with its cobblestone streets and architectural assortment of Renaissance Baroque Neo classicism and Art Nouveau survived Soviet and German occupations during World War II largely unscathed The historic city centre is on the UNESCO World Heritage List Due to its Mediterranean aura many Soviet movies set in places like Venice or Rome were actually shot in Lviv 6 In 1991 Lviv became part of the independent nation of Ukraine The city has many industries and institutions of higher education such as Lviv University and Lviv Polytechnic Lviv is also the home of many cultural institutions including a philharmonic orchestra and the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet 7 Contents 1 Names and symbols 2 Geography 2 1 Climate 3 History 3 1 Galicia Volhynia Wars 3 2 Kingdom of Poland 3 3 Habsburg Empire 3 3 1 First World War 3 4 Polish Ukrainian War 3 5 Interwar period 3 6 World War II and the Soviet incorporation 3 7 German occupation 3 8 Liberation from Germany 3 9 Soviet Era 3 10 Independent Ukraine 3 10 1 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine 4 Administrative division 5 Demographics 5 1 Historical populations 5 2 Ethnic Polish population 5 3 Jewish population 6 Economy 6 1 Information technology 7 Culture 7 1 Architecture 7 2 Monuments 7 3 Religion 7 3 1 Christianity 7 3 2 Judaism 7 4 Arts 7 5 Theatre and opera 7 6 Museums and art galleries 7 7 Music 7 8 Universities and academia 7 9 Mathematics 7 10 Print and media 7 11 In cinema and literature 7 12 Parks 7 13 Sport 8 Tourism 9 Popular culture 10 Public transport 10 1 Railways 10 2 Air transport 10 3 Bicycle lanes 11 Education 11 1 Universities 12 Notable people 13 International relations 13 1 Twin towns and sister cities 14 See also 15 References 16 Bibliography 17 External linksNames and symbols EditThe city of Lviv Ukrainian Lviv lʲwiu listen is also historically known as Russian Lvov romanized Lvov lʲvof Polish Lwow lvuf listen German Lemberg ˈlɛmbɛɐ k listen Yiddish Lemberik לעמבעריק as well as a number of other names 8 The coat of arms the banner of the Lviv City Council and the logo are the officially approved symbols of Lviv The names or images of architectural and historical monuments are also considered symbols of the city by the Statute of Lviv 9 Lviv s modern coat of arms is based on the coat of arms from the city seal from the middle of the 14th century a stone gate with three towers in the opening of the gate of which walks a golden lion Lviv s large coat of arms is a shield with the coat of arms of the city crowned with a silver city crown with three edges held by a lion and an ancient warrior Lviv s flag is a blue square banner with the city emblem image and yellow and blue triangles at the edges Lviv s logo is an image of five colorful towers in Lviv and the slogan Lviv open to the world under them 10 The Latin phrase Semper fidelis Always True was used as a motto on the former coat of arms of 1936 1939 but was no longer used after the Second World War Geography Edit A satellite view of Lviv Sentinel 2 14 August 2017 Lviv is on the edge of the Roztochia Upland about 70 kilometres 43 miles east of Polish border and 160 km 99 mi north of the eastern Carpathian Mountains The average altitude of Lviv is 296 metres 971 feet above sea level Its highest point is the Vysokyi Zamok High Castle 409 meters 1342 feet above sea level This castle has a commanding view of the historic city centre with its distinctive green domed churches and intricate architecture The old walled city was at the foothills of the High Castle on the banks of the Poltva River In the 13th century the river was used to transport goods In the early 20th century the Poltva was covered over in areas where it flows through the city the river flows directly beneath Lviv s central street Freedom Avenue Prospect Svobody and the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet Climate Edit Lviv s climate is humid continental Koppen climate classification Dfb with cold winters and warm summers 11 The average temperatures are 3 C 27 F in January and 18 C 64 F in July 12 The average annual rainfall is 745 mm 29 in with the maximum in summer 12 Mean sunshine duration per year at Lviv is about 1 804 hours 13 Climate data for Lviv 1991 2020 extremes 1936 present Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high C F 14 8 58 6 17 7 63 9 22 4 72 3 28 9 84 0 32 2 90 0 34 1 93 4 36 3 97 3 35 6 96 1 34 5 94 1 25 6 78 1 21 6 70 9 16 5 61 7 36 3 97 3 Average high C F 0 2 32 4 2 0 35 6 7 0 44 6 14 5 58 1 19 5 67 1 23 0 73 4 24 7 76 5 24 5 76 1 19 0 66 2 13 2 55 8 6 8 44 2 1 5 34 7 13 0 55 4 Daily mean C F 2 7 27 1 1 5 29 3 2 5 36 5 9 0 48 2 13 8 56 8 17 3 63 1 19 0 66 2 18 5 65 3 13 5 56 3 8 4 47 1 3 3 37 9 1 3 29 7 8 3 46 9 Average low C F 5 7 21 7 4 8 23 4 1 4 29 5 3 8 38 8 8 4 47 1 12 0 53 6 13 7 56 7 13 2 55 8 8 7 47 7 4 4 39 9 0 4 32 7 4 1 24 6 4 1 39 4 Record low C F 28 5 19 3 29 5 21 1 25 0 13 0 12 1 10 2 5 0 23 0 0 5 32 9 4 5 40 1 2 6 36 7 3 0 26 6 13 2 8 2 17 6 0 3 25 6 14 1 29 5 21 1 Average precipitation mm inches 46 1 8 48 1 9 48 1 9 52 2 0 93 3 7 86 3 4 96 3 8 73 2 9 70 2 8 57 2 2 50 2 0 50 2 0 769 30 3 Average extreme snow depth cm inches 7 2 8 9 3 5 4 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 4 1 6 9 3 5 Average rainy days 9 9 11 14 16 17 16 14 14 14 13 11 158Average snowy days 17 17 11 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 15 72Average relative humidity 83 0 81 3 76 5 69 3 70 7 74 0 74 9 76 3 79 4 80 3 83 8 85 1 77 9Mean monthly sunshine hours 64 79 112 188 227 238 254 222 179 148 56 37 1 804Source 1 Pogoda ru net 12 World Meteorological Organization humidity 1981 2010 14 Source 2 NOAA sun only 1961 1990 13 15 History EditMain articles History of Lviv and Timeline of Lviv Archaeologists have demonstrated that the Lviv area was settled by the fifth century 16 with the gord at Chernecha Hora Voznesensk Street in Lychakivskyi District attributed to White Croats 17 18 19 20 The city of Lviv was founded in 1250 by King Daniel of Galicia 1201 1264 in the Principality of Halych of Kingdom of Ruthenia and named in honour of his son Lev 21 as Lvihorod 22 23 24 which is consistent with names of other Ukrainian cities such as Myrhorod Sharhorod Novhorod Bilhorod Horodyshche and Horodok A 17th century portrait depicting Knyaz Lev of Galicia Volhynia with the city of Lviv in the background Earlier there was a settlement in the form of a borough with a characteristic layout element an elongated market square Daniel s foundation of the stronghold was its next reconstruction after the Batu Khan invasion of 1240 25 26 Lviv was invaded by the Mongols in 1261 27 Various sources relate the events which range from the destruction of the castle to a complete razing of the town All sources agree that it was on the orders of the Mongol general Burundai The Shevchenko Scientific Society Naukove tovarystvo im Shevchenka says that Burundai issued the order to raze the city The Galician Volhynian chronicle states that in 1261 Said Buronda to Vasylko Since you are at peace with me then raze all your castles 28 Basil Dmytryshyn states that the order was implied to be the fortifications as a whole If you wish to have peace with me then destroy all fortifications of your towns 29 According to the Universal Lexicon der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit the town s founder was ordered to destroy the town himself 30 After Daniel s death King Lev rebuilt the town around 1270 at its present location choosing Lviv as his residence 27 and made it the capital of Galicia Volhynia 31 The city is first mentioned in the Halych Volhynian Chronicle regarding the events that were dated 1256 The town grew quickly due to an influx of Polish people from Krakow Poland after they had suffered a widespread famine there 30 Around 1280 Armenians lived in Galicia and were mainly based in Lviv where they had their own Archbishop 32 In the 13th and early 14th centuries Lviv was largely a wooden city except for its several stone churches Some of them like the Church of Saint Nicholas have survived although in a thoroughly rebuilt form 33 The town was inherited by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1340 and ruled by voivode Dmytro Dedko the favourite of the Lithuanian prince Liubartas until 1349 34 The region and the region adjacent to Lviv Leopold Poland was a destination of 50 000 Armenians fleeing from the Saljuq and Mongol invasions of Armenia 35 Galicia Volhynia Wars Edit During the wars over the succession of Galicia Volhynia Principality in 1339 King Casimir III of Poland undertook an expedition and conquered Lviv in 1340 burning down the old princely castle 27 Poland ultimately gained control over Lviv and the adjacent region in 1349 From then on the population was subjected to attempts to both Polonize and Catholicize the population 36 The Lithuanians ravaged Lviv land in 1351 during the Halych Volhyn Wars 37 with Lviv being plundered and destroyed by Prince Liubartas in 1353 38 39 Casimir built a new city center or founded a new town in a basin surrounded it by walls and replaced the wooden palace by masonry castle one of the two built by him 27 40 41 The old Ruthenian settlement after it had been rebuilt became known as the Krakovian Suburb in reference to the city of Krakow 40 Kingdom of Poland Edit Lviv High Castle first built in 1250 by Leo I of Halych and rebuilt in 1362 by Casimir III of Poland engraving by A Gogenberg 17th century In 1349 the Kingdom of Ruthenia with its capital Lviv was annexed by the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland The kingdom was transformed into the Ruthenian domain of the Crown with Lwow as the capital On 17 June 1356 King Casimir III the Great granted it Magdeburg rights which implied that all city matters were to be resolved by a council elected by the wealthy citizens In 1362 the High Castle was completely rebuilt with stone replacing the previous wood In 1358 the city became a seat of Roman Catholic Archdiocese which initiated the spread of Latin Church onto the Ruthenian lands After Casimir had died in 1370 he was succeeded as king of Poland by his nephew King Louis I of Hungary who in 1372 put Lwow together with the region of Kingdom of Galicia Volhynia under the administration of his relative Vladislaus II of Opole Duke of Opole 27 When in 1387 Wladyslaw retreated from the post of its governor Galicia Volhynia became occupied by the Hungarians but soon Jadwiga the youngest daughter of Louis but also the ruler of Poland and wife of King of Poland Wladyslaw II Jagiello unified it directly with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 27 The city s prosperity during the following centuries is owed to the trade privileges granted to it by Casimir King Jadwiga and the subsequent Polish monarchs 27 Germans Poles and Czechs formed the largest groups of newcomers Most of the settlers were polonised by the end of the 15th century and the city became a Polish island surrounded by Orthodox Ruthenian population 42 John II Casimir King of Poland pledging an oath at Lwow s Latin Cathedral by painter Jan Matejko Collection of the Wroclaw Museum In 1412 the local archdiocese has developed into the Roman Catholic Metropolis which since 1375 as diocese had been in Halych 27 The new metropolis included regional diocese in Lwow Przemysl Chelm Wlodzimierz Luck Kamieniec as well as Siret and Kijow see Old Cathedral of St Sophia Kyiv The first Catholic Archbishop who resided in Lwow was Jan Rzeszowski In 1434 the Ruthenian domain of the Crown was transformed into the Ruthenian Voivodeship In 1444 the city was granted the staple right which resulted in its growing prosperity and wealth as it became one of the major trading centres on the merchant routes between Central Europe and Black Sea region It was also transformed into one of the main fortresses of the kingdom and was a royal city like Krakow or Gdansk During the 17th century Lwow was the second largest city of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth with a population of about 30 000 In 1572 one of the first publishers of books in what is now Ukraine Ivan Fedorov a graduate of the University of Krakow settled here for a brief period The city became a significant centre for Eastern Orthodoxy with the establishment of an Orthodox brotherhood a Greek Slavonic school and a printer which published the first full versions of the Bible in Church Slavonic in 1580 A Jesuit Collegium was founded in 1608 and on 20 January 1661 King John II Casimir of Poland issued a decree granting it the honour of the academy and the title of the university 43 The 17th century brought invading armies of Swedes Hungarians 44 45 Turks 46 47 Russians and Cossacks 45 to its gates In 1648 an army of Cossacks and Crimean Tatars besieged the town They captured the High Castle murdering its defenders The city itself was not sacked due to the fact that the leader of the revolution Bohdan Khmelnytsky accepted a ransom of 250 000 ducats and the Cossacks marched north west towards Zamosc It was one of two major cities in Poland which was not captured during the so called Deluge the other one was Gdansk Danzig citation needed At that time Lwow witnessed a historic scene as here King John II Casimir made his famous Lwow Oath On 1 April 1656 during a holy mass in Lwow s Cathedral conducted by the papal legate Pietro Vidoni John Casimir in a grandiose and elaborate ceremony entrusted the Commonwealth under the Blessed Virgin Mary s protection whom he announced as The Queen of the Polish Crown and other of his countries He also swore to protect the Kingdom s folk from any impositions and unjust bondage citation needed Lwow in a lithograph from 1618 Two years later John Casimir in honour of the bravery of its residents declared Lwow to be equal to two historic capitals of the Commonwealth Krakow and Vilnius citation needed In the same year 1658 Pope Alexander VII declared the city to be Semper fidelis in recognition of its key role in defending Europe and Roman Catholicism from Muslim invasion citation needed In 1672 it was surrounded by the Ottomans who also failed to conquer it Three years later the Battle of Lwow 1675 took place near the city Lwow was captured for the first time since the Middle Ages by a foreign army in 1704 when Swedish troops under King Charles XII entered the city after a short siege The plague of the early 18th century caused the death of about 10 000 inhabitants 40 of the city s population 48 Habsburg Empire Edit 18th century map of Lemberg Lviv Lwow In 1772 following the First Partition of Poland the region was annexed by the Habsburg monarchy to the Austrian Partition Known in German as Lemberg the city became the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria 49 Lemberg grew dramatically during the 19th century increasing in population from approximately 30 000 at the time of the Austrian annexation in 1772 50 to 196 000 by 1910 51 and to 212 000 three years later 52 while the poverty in Austrian Galicia was raging 53 In the late 18th and early 19th centuries a large influx of Austrians and German speaking Czech bureaucrats gave the city a character that by the 1840s was quite Austrian in its orderliness and in the appearance and popularity of Austrian coffeehouses 54 During Habsburg s rule Lviv became one of the most important Polish Ukrainian and Jewish cultural centres In Lviv according to the Austrian census of 1910 which listed religion and language 51 of the city s population was Roman Catholics 28 Jews and 19 belonged to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Linguistically 86 of the city s population used the Polish language and 11 preferred the Ruthenian 53 The Raclawice Panorama opened in 1894 In 1773 the first newspaper in Lemberg Gazette de Leopoli began to be published In 1784 a Latin language university was opened with lectures in German Polish and even Ruthenian after closing in 1805 it was reopened in 1817 By 1825 German became the sole language of instruction 54 Lemberg University was opened by Maria Theresa in 1784 By 1787 her successor Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor opened Studium Ruthenum for students who did not know enough Latin to take regular courses 55 During the 19th century the Austrian administration attempted to Germanise the city s educational and governmental institutions Many cultural organisations which did not have a pro German orientation were closed After the revolutions of 1848 the language of instruction at the university shifted from German to include Ukrainian and Polish Around that time a certain sociolect developed in the city known as the Lwow dialect Considered to be a type of Polish dialect it draws its roots from numerous other languages besides Polish In 1853 kerosene lamps as street lighting were introduced by Ignacy Lukasiewicz and Jan Zeh Then in 1858 these were updated to gas lamps and in 1900 to electric ones Stanislaw Skarbek Theatre in 1900 After the so called Ausgleich of February 1867 the Austrian Empire was reformed into a dualist Austria Hungary and a slow yet steady process of liberalisation of Austrian rule in Galicia started From 1873 Galicia was de facto an autonomous province of Austria Hungary with Polish and Ruthenian as official languages Germanisation was halted and the censorship lifted as well Galicia was subject to the Austrian part of the Dual Monarchy but the Galician Sejm and provincial administration both established in Lviv had extensive privileges and prerogatives especially in education culture and local affairs In 1894 the General National Exhibition was held in Lviv 56 The city started to grow rapidly becoming the fourth largest in Austria Hungary according to the census of 1910 Many Belle Epoque public edifices and tenement houses were erected with many of the buildings from the Austrian period such as the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet built in the Viennese neo Renaissance style The Galician Sejm until 1918 since 1920 the Jan Kazimierz University At that time Lviv was home to a number of renowned Polish language institutions such as the Ossolineum with the second largest collection of Polish books in the world the Polish Academy of Arts the National Museum since 1908 the Historical Museum of the City of Lwow since 1891 the Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists the Polish Historical Society Lwow University with Polish as the official language since 1882 the Lwow Scientific Society the Lwow Art Gallery the Polish Theatre and the Polish Archdiocese Furthermore Lviv was the centre of a number of Polish independence organisations In June 1908 Jozef Pilsudski Wladyslaw Sikorski and Kazimierz Sosnkowski founded here the Union of Active Struggle Two years later the paramilitary organisation called the Riflemen s Association was also founded in the city by Polish activists At the same time Lviv became the city where famous Ukrainian writers such as Ivan Franko Panteleimon Kulish and Ivan Nechuy Levytsky published their work It was a centre of Ukrainian cultural revival The city also housed the largest and most influential Ukrainian institutions in the world including the Prosvita society dedicated to spreading literacy in the Ukrainian language the Shevchenko Scientific Society the Dniester Insurance Company and base of the Ukrainian cooperative movement and it served as the seat of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Lviv was also a major centre of Jewish culture in particular as a centre of the Yiddish language and was the home of the world s first Yiddish language daily newspaper the Lemberger Togblat established in 1904 57 First World War Edit Lemberg Lviv Lwow in 1915 In the Battle of Galicia at the early stages of the First World War Lviv was captured by the Russian army in September 1914 following the Battle of Gnila Lipa The Lemberg Fortress fell on 3 September The historian Pal Kelemen provided a first hand account of the chaotic evacuation of the city by the Austro Hungarian Army and civilians alike 58 The town was retaken by Austria Hungary in June the following year during the Gorlice Tarnow offensive Lviv and its population therefore suffered greatly during the First World War as many of the offensives were fought across its local geography causing significant collateral damage and disruption 59 Polish Ukrainian War Edit Further information Polish Ukrainian War Ukrainian Sich Riflemen fought on the Ukrainian side in November 1918 The picture was made by one of the contemporaries of event The Lwow Eaglets teenage soldiers who fought on the Polish side during the Battle of LwowAfter the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of the First World War Lwow became an arena of battle between the local Polish population and the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Both nations perceived the city as an integral part of their new statehoods which at that time were forming in the former Austrian territories On the night of 31 October 1 November 1918 the Western Ukrainian People s Republic was proclaimed with Lwow as its capital 2 300 Ukrainian soldiers from the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Sichovi Striltsi which had previously been a corps in the Austrian Army made an attempt to take over Lviv The city s Polish majority opposed the Ukrainian declaration and began to fight against the Ukrainian troops 60 During this combat an important role was taken by young Polish city defenders called Lwow Eaglets The Ukrainian forces withdrew outside Lwow s confines by 21 November 1918 after which elements of Polish soldiers began to loot and burn much of the Jewish and Ukrainian quarters of the city killing approximately 340 civilians see Lwow pogrom 61 The retreating Ukrainian forces besieged the city The Sich riflemen reformed into the Ukrainian Galician Army UHA The Polish forces aided from central Poland including General Haller s Blue Army equipped by the French relieved the besieged city in May 1919 forcing the UHA to the east Despite Entente mediation attempts to cease hostilities and reach a compromise between belligerents the Polish Ukrainian War continued until July 1919 when the last UHA forces withdrew east of the River Zbruch The border on the River Zbruch was confirmed at the Treaty of Warsaw when in April 1920 Field Marshal Pilsudski signed an agreement with Symon Petlura where it was agreed that for military support against the Bolsheviks the Ukrainian People s Republic renounced its claims to the territories of Eastern Galicia In August 1920 Lwow was attacked by the Red Army under the command of Aleksandr Yegorov and Stalin during the Polish Soviet War but the city repelled the attack 62 For the courage of its inhabitants Lwow was awarded the Virtuti Militari cross by Jozef Pilsudski on 22 November 1920 On 23 February 1921 the council of the League of Nations declared that Galicia including the city lay outside the territory of Poland and that Poland did not have the mandate to establish administrative control in that country and that Poland was merely the occupying military power of Galicia as a whole 63 whose sovereign remained the Allied Powers and fate would be determined by the Council of Ambassadors at the League of Nations 64 On 14 March 1923 the Council of Ambassadors decided that Galicia would be incorporated into Poland whereas it is recognised by Poland that ethnographical conditions necessitate an autonomous regime in the Eastern part of Galicia 65 This proviso was never honoured by the interwar Polish government After 1923 Galicia was internationally recognized as part of the Polish state 63 Interwar period Edit A panorama of Lwow before 1924 During the interwar period Lwow held the rank of the Second Polish Republic s third most populous city following Warsaw and Lodz and it became the seat of the Lwow Voivodeship Following Warsaw Lwow was the second most important cultural and academic centre of interwar Poland For example in 1920 professor Rudolf Weigl of the Lwow University developed a vaccine against typhus fever Furthermore the geographic location of Lwow gave it an important role in stimulating international trade and fostering the city s and Poland s economic development A major trade fair called Targi Wschodnie was established in 1921 In the academic year 1937 1938 there were 9 100 students attending five institutions of higher education including the Lwow University as well as the Polytechnic 66 Eastern Trade Fair Targi Wschodnie main entrance 67 While about two thirds of the city s inhabitants were Poles some of whom spoke the characteristic Lwow dialect the eastern part of the Lwow Voivodeship had a relative Ukrainian majority in most of its rural areas Although Polish authorities obliged themselves internationally to provide Eastern Galicia with an autonomy including a creation of a separate Ukrainian university in Lwow and even though in September 1922 adequate Polish Sejm s Bill was enacted 68 it was not fulfilled The Polish government discontinued many Ukrainian schools which functioned during the Austrian rule 69 and closed down Ukrainian departments at the University of Lwow with the exception of one 70 Prewar Lwow also had a large and thriving Jewish community which constituted about a quarter of the population Unlike in Austrian times when the size and number of public parades or other cultural expressions corresponded to each cultural group s relative population the Polish government emphasised the Polish nature of the city and limited public displays of Jewish and Ukrainian culture Military parades and commemorations of battles at particular streets within the city all celebrating the Polish forces who fought against the Ukrainians in 1918 became frequent and in the 1930s a vast memorial monument and burial ground of Polish soldiers from that conflict was built in the city s Lychakiv Cemetery World War II and the Soviet incorporation Edit Further information Battle of Lwow 1939 Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 and by 14 September Lwow was completely encircled by German Army units 71 Subsequently the Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September On 22 September 1939 Lwow capitulated to the Red Army The USSR annexed the eastern half of the Second Polish Republic with Ukrainian and Belorussian populations The city became the capital of the newly formed Lviv Oblast The Soviets reopened uni lingual Ukrainian schools which were discontinued by the Polish government The only change over imposed by the Soviets was the language of instruction with the actual net loss of about 1 000 schools in short order 72 Ukrainian was made compulsory in the University of Lviv with almost all its books in Polish citation needed It became thoroughly Ukrainized and was renamed after Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko The Polish academics were laid off 73 Soviet rule turned out to be much more oppressive than Polish rule the rich world of Ukrainian publications in Polish Lwow for instance was gone in Soviet Ukrainian Lviv and many journalism jobs were lost with it 74 German occupation Edit Main article Battle of Lwow 1941 On 22 June 1941 Nazi Germany and several of its allies invaded the USSR In the initial stage of Operation Barbarossa 30 June 1941 Lviv was taken by the Germans The evacuating Soviets killed most of the prison population with arriving Wehrmacht forces easily discovering evidence of the Soviet mass murders in the city 75 committed by the NKVD and NKGB Ukrainian nationalists organised as a militia and the civilian population was allowed to take revenge on the Jews and the Bolsheviks and indulged in several mass killings in Lviv and the surrounding region which resulted in the deaths estimated at between 4 000 and 10 000 Jews On 30 June 1941 Yaroslav Stetsko proclaimed in Lviv the Government of an independent Ukrainian state allied with Nazi Germany This was done without preapproval from the Germans and after 15 September 1941 the organisers were arrested 76 77 78 The Lvov Holocaust memorial in Israel The Sikorski Mayski Agreement signed in London on 30 July 1941 between Polish government in exile and USSR s government invalidated the September 1939 Soviet German partition of Poland as the Soviets declared it null and void 79 Meanwhile German occupied Eastern Galicia at the beginning of August 1941 was incorporated into the General Government as Distrikt Galizien with Lviv as the district s capital German policy towards the Polish population in this area was as harsh as in the rest of the General Government 80 Germans during the occupation of the city committed numerous atrocities including the killing of Polish university professors in 1941 German Nazis viewed the Ukrainian Galicians former inhabitants of Austrian Crown Land as to some point more aryanised and civilised than the Ukrainian population living in the territories belonging to the USSR before 1939 As a result they escaped the full extent of German acts in comparison to Ukrainians who lived to the east in the German occupied Soviet Ukraine turned into the Reichskommissariat Ukraine 80 The imprisoned Tango of Death orchestra According to the Third Reich s racial policies local Jews then became the main target of German repressions in the region Following the German occupation the Jewish population was concentrated in the Lwow Ghetto established in the city s Zamarstynow today Zamarstyniv district and the Janowska concentration camp was also set up In the Janowska concentration camp the Nazis conducted torture and executions to music The Lviv National Opera members who were prisoners played one and the same tune Tango of Death citation needed On the eve of Lviv s liberation German Nazis ordered 40 orchestra musicians to form a circle The security ringed the musicians tightly and ordered them to play First the orchestra conductor Mund was executed Then the commandant ordered the musicians to come to the center of the circle one by one put their instruments onto the ground and strip naked after which they were killed by a headshot citation needed A photo of the orchestra players was one of the incriminating documents at the Nuremberg trials In 1931 there were 75 316 Yiddish speaking inhabitants but by 1941 approximately 100 000 Jews were present in Lviv 81 The majority of these Jews were either killed within the city or deported to Belzec extermination camp In the summer of 1943 on the orders of Heinrich Himmler SS Standartenfuhrer Paul Blobel was tasked with the destruction of any evidence of Nazi mass murders in the Lviv area On 15 June Blobel using forced labourers from Janowska dug up a number of mass graves and incinerated the remains 82 Later on 19 November 1943 inmates at Janowska staged an uprising and attempted a mass escape A few succeeded but most were recaptured and killed The SS staff and their local auxiliaries then at the time of the Janowska camp s liquidation murdered at least 6 000 more inmates as well as the Jews in other forced labour camps in Galicia By the end of the war the Jewish population of the city was virtually eliminated with only around 200 to 800 survivors remaining 83 84 Liberation from Germany Edit Main article Lwow uprising After the successful Lvov Sandomierz Offensive of July 1944 the Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army captured Lwow on 27 July 1944 with significant cooperation from the local Polish resistance Soon thereafter the local commanders of Polish Armia Krajowa were invited to a meeting with the commanders of the Red Army During the meeting they were arrested as it turned out to be a trap set by the Soviet NKVD Later in the winter and spring of 1945 the local NKVD kept arresting and harassing Poles in Lwow which according to Soviet sources on 1 October 1944 still had a clear Polish majority of 66 7 in an attempt to encourage their emigration from the city 85 Those arrested were released only after they had signed papers in which they agreed to emigrate to Poland which postwar borders were to be shifted westwards in accordance with the Yalta conference settlements In Yalta despite Polish objections the Allied leaders Joseph Stalin Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill decided that Lwow should remain within the borders of the Soviet Union Roosevelt wanted Poland to have Lwow and the surrounding oilfields but Stalin refused to allow it 85 On 16 August 1945 a border agreement 86 was signed in Moscow between the government of the Soviet Union and the Provisional Government of National Unity installed by the Soviets in Poland In the treaty Polish authorities formally ceded the prewar eastern part of the country to the Soviet Union agreeing to the Polish Soviet border to be drawn according to the Curzon Line Consequently the agreement was ratified on 5 February 1946 Soviet Era Edit In February 1946 Lviv became a part of the Soviet Union It is estimated that from 100 000 to 140 000 Poles were resettled from the city into the so called Recovered Territories as a part of postwar population transfers many of them to the area of newly acquired Wroclaw formerly the German city of Breslau Many buildings in the old part of the city are examples of Polish architecture which flourished in Lviv after the opening of the Technical School later Polytechnic the first higher education technical academy in Polish lands Polytechnic educated generations of architects who were influential in the entire country Examples are the main buildings of Lviv Polytechnic University of Lviv Lviv Opera Lviv railway station former building of Galicyjska Kasa Oszczednosci Potocki Palace 87 During the interwar period Lviv was striving to become a modern metropolis so architects experimented with modernism It was the period of the most rapid growth of the city so one can find many examples of architecture from this time in the city citation needed Examples include the main building of Lviv Academy of Commerce the second Sprecher s building or building of City Electrical Facilities citation needed One monument of the Polish past is the Adam Mickiewicz Monument at the square bearing his name citation needed Many Polish pieces of art and sculpture can be found in Lviv galleries among them works by Jan Piotr Norblin Marcello Bacciarelli Kazimierz Wojniakowski Antoni Brodowski Henryk Rodakowski Artur Grottger Jan Matejko Aleksander Gierymski Jan Stanislawski Leon Wyczolkowski Jozef Chelmonski Jozef Mehoffer Stanislaw Wyspianski Olga Boznanska Wladyslaw Slowinski Jacek Malczewski citation needed Poles who stayed in Lviv have formed the organisation the Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land According to various estimates Lviv lost between 80 and 90 of its prewar population 88 Expulsion of the Polish population and the Holocaust together with migration from Ukrainian speaking surrounding areas including forcibly resettled from the territories which after the war became part of the Polish People s Republic from other parts of the Soviet Union altered the ethnic composition of the city Immigration from Russia and Russian speaking regions of Eastern Ukraine was encouraged citation needed The prevalence of the Ukrainian speaking population has led to the fact that under the conditions of Soviet Russification citation needed Lviv became a major centre of the dissident movement in Ukraine and played a key role in Ukraine s independence in 1991 In the 1950s and 1960s the city expanded both in population and size mostly due to the city s rapidly growing industrial base Due to the fight of SMERSH with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Lviv obtained a nickname with a negative connotation of Banderstadt as the City of Stepan Bandera The German suffix for the city stadt was added instead of the Russian grad to imply alienation Over the years the residents of the city found this so ridiculous that even people not familiar with Bandera accepted it as sarcasm in reference to the Soviet perception of western Ukraine In the period of liberalisation from the Soviet system in the 1980s the city became the centre of political movements advocating Ukrainian independence from the USSR By the time of the fall of the Soviet Union the name became a proud mark for the Lviv natives culminating in the creation of a local rock band under the name Khloptsi z Bandershtadtu Boys from Banderstadt 89 On 17 September 1989 Lviv saw the largest rally in support of Ukraine s independence from the Soviet Union gathering some 100 000 participants 90 Independent Ukraine Edit Citizens of Lviv strongly supported Viktor Yushchenko during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election and played a key role in the Orange Revolution Hundreds of thousands of people would gather in freezing temperatures to demonstrate for the Orange camp Acts of civil disobedience forced the head of the local police to resign and the local assembly issued a resolution refusing to accept the fraudulent first official results 91 Lviv remains today one of the main centres of Ukrainian culture and the origin of much of the nation s political class In support of the Euromaidan movement Lviv s executive committee declared itself independent of the rule of President Viktor Yanukovych on 19 February 2014 92 In 2019 citizens of Lviv supported Petro Poroshenko during the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election The number of votes for Poroshenko was determined by more than 90 Despite this support he lost the national vote Until 18 July 2020 Lviv was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the center of Lviv Municipality The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven The area of Lviv Municipality was merged into the newly established Lviv Raion 93 94 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Edit During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Lviv became the nation s de facto western capital in February 2022 as some embassies government agencies and media organizations were relocated from Kyiv due to a direct military threat to the capital 95 Lviv also became a safe haven for the Ukrainians fleeing other parts of the country affected by the invasion their number exceeding 200 000 as of 18 March 2022 Many used the city as a stopping point on their way to Poland Lviv and the larger region around it also served as crucial arms and humanitarian supply route 90 Bracing for Russian attacks local government and citizens helped by the Polish and Croatian advisers worked to protect the city s cultural heritage by erecting makeshift barriers around historical monuments wrapping statues and safeguarding art treasures 96 In the course of the war the area in and around Lviv was struck by Russian missile attacks hitting the Yavoriv military training base on 13 March 2022 the Lviv State Aircraft Repair Plant near the Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport on 18 March 2022 90 and a fuel depot and other facilities within the city limits on 26 March 2022 97 According to Mayor Andriy Sadoviy on 18 April 2022 the city was hit by five missile strikes Seven civilians were killed and 11 were wounded Regional governor Maksym Kozystkiy said that the targets were military factories and a tyre shop A hotel housing evacuees was hit damaging windows On 18 April TASS quoted the Russian Ministry of Defence that confirmed 315 targets were struck by Russian missiles overnight The statement claimed that all targets were of a military nature 98 Lviv was targeted during the 10 October 2022 missile strikes on Ukraine resulting in a city wide blackout 99 On 11 October 2022 Mayor Sadoviy reported that the city was hit by a missile strike resulting in a power outage and water supply shortage 100 Administrative division EditMain article Administrative divisions of Lviv Lviv City Hall Lviv is divided into six raions districts each with its own administrative bodies Halych district Galickij rajon Halytskyi raion Zaliznytsia district Zaliznichnij rajon Zaliznychnyi raion literally railway neighborhood Lychakiv district Lichakivskij rajon Lychakivs kyi raion Sykhiv district Sihivskij rajon Sykhivs kyi raion Franko district Frankivskij rajon Frankivs kyi raion named after Ivan Franko Shevchenko district Shevchenkivskij rajon Shevchenkivs kyi raion named after Taras Shevchenko Notable suburbs include Vynnyky misto Vinniki Briukhovychi selishe Bryuhovichi and Rudne selishe Rudne Demographics EditLviv residents live 75 years on average and this age is 7 years longer than the average age in Ukraine and 8 years more than the world average 68 years In 2010 the average life expectancy was 71 among men and 79 5 years among women 101 The fertility rates have been steadily increasing between 2001 and 2010 however the effects of low fertility in the previous years remained noticeable even though the birth rates grew There is an acute shortage of young people under the age of 25 In 2011 13 7 of Lviv s population consisted of young people under 15 years and 17 6 of persons aged 60 years and over 102 Historical populations Edit Language use throughout 20th centuryLanguage 1931 1970 1979 1989Ukrainian 11 3 65 2 71 3 77 2 Russian 31 1 25 7 19 9 Yiddish 24 1 Polish 63 5 Other 1 1 3 7 3 0 2 9 Population structure by religion 1869 1931Community 1869 103 1890 104 1900 105 1910 106 1921 106 1931 107 Roman Catholic 53 1 52 6 51 7 51 51 50 4 Jewish 30 6 28 2 27 7 28 35 31 9 Greek Catholic 14 2 17 1 18 3 19 12 15 9 Population makeup by ethnicity 1900 2001Ethnicity 1900 108 1931 107 1944 109 1950 1959 110 1979 110 1989 110 2001 111 Ukrainians 19 9 15 9 26 4 49 9 60 0 74 0 79 1 88 1 Russians 0 0 0 2 5 5 31 2 27 0 19 3 16 1 8 9 Jews 26 5 31 9 6 4 6 0 2 7 1 6 0 3 Poles 49 4 50 4 63 10 3 4 0 1 8 1 2 0 9 Ethnicity in Lviv according to censuses of 1989 and 2001 respectivelyUkrainians 622 800 79 1 88 1 Russians 126 418 16 1 8 9 Jews 12 837 1 6 0 3 Poles 9 697 1 2 0 9 Belarusians 5 800 0 7 0 4 Armenians 1 000 0 1 0 1 Total 778 557Numbers do not include regions nor the surrounding towns 112 full citation needed Year 1405 approx 4 500 inhabitants in the Old Town and additionally approx 600 in the two suburbs 113 Year 1544 approx 3 000 inhabitants in the Old Town number had decreased by about 30 due to the fire of 1527 and additionally approx 2 700 in the suburbs 113 Year 1840 approx 67 000 inhabitants including 20 000 Jews 114 Year 1850 nearly 80 000 inhabitants together with the four suburbs including more than 25 000 Jews 115 Year 1869 87 109 inhabitants among them 46 252 Roman Catholics 26 694 Jews 12 406 members of the Greek Uniate Churches 103 Year 1890 127 943 inhabitants 64 102 male 63 481 female among them 67 280 Catholics 36 130 Judaic 21 876 members of the Greek Uniate Churches 2 061 Protestants 596 Orthodox and others 104 Year 1900 159 877 inhabitants including the military 10 326 men Of these inhabitants 82 597 were members of the Roman Catholic Church 29 327 members of the Greek Uniate Churches and 44 258 were Jews As their language of communication 120 634 used Polish 20 409 German or Yiddish and 15 159 Ukrainian 105 Year 1921 219 400 inhabitants including 112 000 Poles 76 000 Jews and 28 000 Ukrainians 116 Year 1939 340 000 inhabitants 117 Year 1940 500 000 109 July 1944 149 000 109 Year 1955 380 000 109 Year 2001 725 000 inhabitants of whom 88 were Ukrainians 9 Russians and 1 Poles 111 A further 200 000 people commuted daily from suburbs Year 2007 735 000 inhabitants By gender 51 5 women and 48 5 men 112 full citation needed By place of birth 112 full citation needed 56 born in Lviv 19 born in Lviv Oblast 11 born in East Ukraine 7 born in the former republics of the USSR Russia 4 4 born in Poland and 3 born in Western Ukraine but not in the Lviv Oblast Religious adherence 2001 112 full citation needed 52 Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 31 Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate 0 5 Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church 0 3 Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate 0 3 Other faiths In the year 2000 about 80 of Lviv s inhabitants were primarily Ukrainian speaking 118 Ethnic Polish population Edit Year Poles Total1921 116 112 000 51 219 4001989 9 500 119 1 2 111 790 908 120 2001 111 6 400 0 9 725 200Ethnic Poles and the Polish Jews began to settle in Lwow in considerable numbers already in 1349 after the city was conquered by King Casimir of the Piast dynasty Lwow served as Poland s major cultural and economic centre for several centuries during the Polish Golden Age and until the partitions of Poland perpetrated by Russia Prussia and Austria 121 In the Second Polish Republic the Lwow Voivodeship inhabited by 2 789 000 people in 1921 grew to 3 126 300 inhabitants in ten years 122 As a result of World War II Lviv was de Polonised mainly through Soviet arranged population exchange in 1944 1946 but also by early deportations to Siberia 123 Those who remained on their own volition after the border shift became a small ethnic minority in Lviv By 1959 Poles made up only 4 of the local population Many families were mixed 123 During the Soviet decades only two Polish schools continued to function No 10 with 8 grades and No 24 with 10 grades 123 In the 1980s the process of uniting groups into ethnic associations was allowed In 1988 a Polish language newspaper was permitted Gazeta Lwowska 124 The Polish population of the city continues to use the dialect of the Polish language known as Lwow dialect Polish gwara lwowska 124 Jewish population Edit The first known Jews in Lviv date back to the tenth century 125 The oldest remaining Jewish tombstone dates back to 1348 125 Apart from the Rabbanite Jews there were many Karaites who had settled in the city after coming from the East and from Byzantium After Casimir III conquered Lviv in 1349 the Jewish citizens received many privileges equal to that of other citizens of Poland Lviv had two separate Jewish quarters one within the city walls and one outside on the outskirts of the city Each had its separate synagogue although they shared a cemetery which was also used by the Crimean Karaite community Before 1939 there were 97 synagogues Before the Holocaust about one third of the city s population was made up of Jews more than 140 000 on the eve of World War II This number swelled to about 240 000 by the end of 1940 as tens of thousands of Jews fled from the Nazi occupied parts of Poland into the relative and temporary sanctuary of Soviet occupied Poland including Lviv following the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact that divided Poland into Nazi and Soviet zones in 1939 Most of the Jewish population was killed in the Holocaust Meanwhile the Nazis also destroyed the Jewish cemetery which was subsequently paved over by the Soviets 125 Due to the Holocaust and migration the original Jewish population of the city all but vanished After the war the remnant was replenished by a newer Jewish population formed from among the hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians who migrated to the city The post war Jewish population peaked at 30 000 in the 1970s Currently the Jewish population has shrunk considerably as a result of emigration mainly to Israel and the United States and to a lesser degree assimilation and is estimated to number a few thousand 126 A number of organisations continue to be active One can still find pre war German Polish Yiddish ghost signs around the city The Sholem Aleichem Jewish Culture Society in Lviv initiated the construction of a monument to the victims of the ghetto in 1988 On 23 August 1992 the memorial complex to the victims of the Lwow ghetto 1941 1943 was officially opened 127 During 2011 2012 some anti Semitic acts against the memorial took place On 20 March 2011 it was reported that the slogan death to the Jews with a swastika was sprayed on the monument 128 On 21 March 2012 the memorial was vandalized by unknown individuals in what seemed to be an anti Semitic act 129 Economy Edit E19101 electric bus product of the Electron Lviv is the most important business centre of Western Ukraine As of 1 January 2011 the city has invested 837 1 million US dollars into the economy accounting for almost two thirds of total investment in the Lviv region In 2015 the companies of Lviv received 14 3 million of foreign direct investment which is however two times less than a year earlier 30 9 million in 2014 130 During January September 2017 the general amount of direct foreign investment received by the local government in Lviv is 52 4 million According to the statistics administration foreign capital was invested by 31 countries some of the main investors Poland 47 7 Australia 11 3 Cyprus 10 7 and the Netherlands 6 131 The total revenue of the city budget of Lviv for 2015 is set at about UAH 3 81 billion which is 23 more than a year earlier UAH 2 91 billion in 2014 132 As of 10 November 2017 the deputies of the Lviv City Council approved a budget in amount of UAH 5 4 billion 204 million The large part of which UAH 5 12 billion was the revenue of the fund of the Lviv 133 134 The average wage in Lviv in 2015 in the business sector amounted to 14 041 UAH in the budget sphere 9 475 UAH 135 On 1 February 2014 registered unemployment was 0 6 136 Lviv is one of the largest cities in Ukraine and is growing rapidly According to the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine the monthly average salary in Lviv is a little less than the average for Ukraine which in February 2013 was 6050 UAH 755 According to the World Bank classification Lviv is a middle income city In June 2019 the average wage amounted to 23 000 UAH 920 which is 18 9 more than in the previous year 137 138 Lviv has 218 large industrial enterprises more than 40 commercial banks 4 exchanges 13 investment companies 80 insurance and 24 leasing companies 77 audit firms and almost 9 000 small ventures 139 For many years machinery building and electronics were leading industries in Lviv The city based public company Electron trademark of national television sets manufacturing produces the 32 and 37 inches liquid crystal TV sets The Electrontrans specializes in design and production of modern electric transport including trams trolleybuses electric buses and spare parts In 2013 Elektrotrans JV started producing low floor trams the first Ukrainian 100 low floor tramways 140 LAZ is a bus manufacturing company in Lviv with its own rich history Founded in 1945 LAZ started bus production in the early 1950s Innovative design ideas of Lviv engineers have become the world standard in bus manufacturing citation needed The total volume of industrial production sold in 2015 amounted to UAH 24 2 billion which is 39 more than a year earlier UAH 14 6 billion in 2014 141 142 There are several banks based in Lviv such as Kredobank Idea Bank VS Bank Oksi Bank and Lviv Bank None of these banks have bankrupted during the political and economic crisis of 2014 2016 It can be explained by the presence of foreign capital in most of them From 2015 to 2019 the city experienced a construction boom In Q1 2019 according to statistical data growth in the volume of new housing construction was recorded in Lviv 3 2 times to 377 900 square meters 143 Lviv is a major business center between Warsaw and Kyiv According to the Lviv Economic Development Strategy the main branches of the city s economy by 2025 should become tourism and information technologies IT the business services and logistics are also a priority 144 In addition The Nestle service center is in Lviv This center guides the company s divisions in 20 countries of Central and Eastern Europe 145 Also during 2016 the Global Service Center VimpelCom in Lviv was launched which serves finance procurement and HR operations in eight foreign branches of this company 146 There are many restaurants and shops as well as street vendors of food books clothes traditional cultural items and tourist gifts Banking and money trading are an important part of the economy of Lviv with many banks and exchange offices throughout the city Information technology Edit Lviv is also one of the leaders of software export in Eastern Europe with expected sector growth of 20 by 2020 147 Over 15 of all IT specialists in Ukraine work in Lviv with over 4100 new IT graduates coming from local universities each year About 2 500 tech enthusiasts attended Lviv IT Arena the largest technology conference in Western Ukraine 148 Over 24 000 IT specialists work in Lviv as of 2019 149 Lviv is among top five most popular Ukrainian cities for opening R amp D center in IT and IT outsourcing spheres together with Kyiv Dnipro Kharkiv and Odesa 150 In 2009 KPMG one of the well known international auditing companies included Lviv in top 30 cities with the greatest potential of information technology development 151 As of December 2015 there were 192 IT companies operating in the city of which 4 large with more than 400 employees 16 average 150 300 employees 97 small 10 110 employees and 70 micro companies 3 7 employees From 2017 to 2018 the amount of IT companies raised to 317 149 The turnover of Lviv s IT industry in 2015 amounted to 300 million U S About 50 of IT services are exported to the US 37 to Europe and the rest to other countries As of 2015 about 15 thousand specialists were employed in this industry with an average salary of 28 thousand UAH According to a study of the Economic Effect of the Lviv IT Market which was conducted by Lviv IT Cluster and sociological agency The Farm there are 257 IT companies operating in Lviv in 2017 that employ about 17 thousand specialists The economic impact of the IT industry in Lviv is 734 million U S 152 There are 15 top universities in Lviv 5 of which prepare highly skilled specialists in computer and IT technologies and supply over 1 000 IT graduates to the market annually 153 Lviv IT outsourcing companies gathered when all kinds of Ukrainian developers in one place resulting in many front end interns JavaScript developers back end and full stack coders with proper qualifications experience and good English language skills Some IT companies in Lviv offer outsourcing software services to international corporations rather than developing their software product 154 Culture EditL viv the Ensemble of the Historic CentreUNESCO World Heritage Site Town view from High CastleCriteriaCultural ii vReference865Inscription1998 22nd Session Area120 haBuffer zone2 441 haLviv is one of Ukraine s most important cultural centres It is known as a centre of art literature music and theatre Nowadays the evidence of the city s cultural richness is the number of theatres concert halls and creative unions and the high number of artistic activities more than 100 festivals annually 60 museums and 10 theatres Lviv s historic centre has been on the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO World Heritage list since 1998 UNESCO gave the following reasons 155 for its selection Criterion II In its urban fabric and its architecture Lviv is an outstanding example of the fusion of the architectural and artistic traditions of central and eastern Europe with those of Italy and Germany Criterion V The political and commercial role of Lviv attracted to it a number of ethnic groups with different cultural and religious traditions who established separate yet interdependent communities within the city evidence for which is still discernible in the modern town s landscape Architecture Edit Lviv s historic churches buildings and relics date from the 13th century to the early 20th century Polish and Austro Hungarian rule In recent centuries Lviv was spared some of the invasions and wars that destroyed other Ukrainian cities Its architecture reflects various European styles and periods After the fires of 1527 and 1556 Lviv lost most of its gothic style buildings but it retains many buildings in renaissance baroque and the classic styles There are works by artists of the Vienna Secession Art Nouveau and Art Deco The buildings have many stone sculptures and carvings particularly on large doors which are hundreds of years old The remains of old churches dot the central cityscape Some three to five storey buildings have hidden inner courtyards and grottoes in various states of repair Some cemeteries are of interest for example the Lychakivskiy Cemetery where the Polish elite was buried for centuries Leaving the central area the architectural style changes radically as Soviet era high rise blocks dominate In the centre of the city the Soviet era is reflected mainly in a few modern style national monuments and sculptures Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church An example of baroque style in Lviv Bernardine church and monastery in the style of Italian mannerism Early 20th century architecture in Lviv Architecture of Shevchenko Avenue The Nativity of the Holy Virgin Church was constructed in 1995 2001 in Sykhiv district The mixture of modern and Soviet era architecture in the northern part of the cityMonuments Edit Inside the Church of the Transfiguration The Church of the Assumption Chapel of the Boim family Outdoor sculptures in the city commemorate many notable individuals and topics reflecting the rich and complex history of Lviv There are monuments to Adam Mickiewicz Ivan Franko King Danylo Taras Shevchenko Ivan Fedorov Solomiya Krushelnytska Ivan Pidkova Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Pope John Paul II Jan Kilinski Ivan Trush Saint George Bartosz Glowacki the monument to the Virgin Mary to Nikifor The Good Soldier Svejk Stepan Bandera Leopold von Sacher Masoch and many others During the interwar period there were monuments commemorating important figures of Polish history Some of them were moved to the Polish Recovered Territories after World War II like the monument to Aleksander Fredro which now is in Wroclaw the monument of King John III Sobieski which after 1945 was moved to Gdansk and the monument of Kornel Ujejski which is now in Szczecin A book market takes place around the monument to Ivan Fedorovych a typographer in the 16th century who fled Moscow and found a new home in Lviv New ideas came to Lviv during Austro Hungarian rule In the 19th century many publishing houses newspapers and magazines were established Among these was the Ossolineum which was one of the most important Polish scientific libraries Most Polish language books and publications of the Ossolineum library are still kept in a local Jesuit church In 1997 the Polish government asked the Ukrainian government to return these documents to Poland In 2003 Ukraine allowed access to these publications for the first time In 2006 an office of the Ossolineum now in Wroclaw opened in Lviv and began scanning all its documents Works written in Lviv contributed to Austrian Ukrainian Yiddish and Polish literature with a multitude of translations Religion Edit Lviv is a city of religious variety Religion 2012 Catholic 57 Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 56 and Roman Catholic Church 1 Orthodox 32 Protestantism 2 Judaism 0 1 Other religion 3 Indifferent to religious matters 4 Atheism 1 9 156 Christianity Edit At one point over 60 churches existed in the city The largest Christian Churches have existed in the city since the 13th century The city has been the seat of the Catholic Church in 3 rites The Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv the Roman Catholics and the Armenian Church Each has had a diocesan seat in Lviv since the 16th century At the end of the 16th century the Orthodox community in Ukraine transferred their allegiance to the Pope in Rome and became the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church This bond was forcibly dissolved in 1946 by the Soviet authorities and the Roman Catholic community was forced out by the expulsion of the Polish population Since 1989 religious life in Lviv has experienced a revival Lviv is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv the centre of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine and until 21 August 2005 was the centre of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church About 35 percent of religious buildings belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 11 5 percent to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church 9 per cent to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate and 6 per cent to the Roman Catholic Church Until 2005 Lviv was the only city with two Catholic Cardinals Lubomyr Husar Byzantine Rite and Marian Jaworski Latin Rite In June 2001 Pope John Paul II visited the Latin Cathedral St George s Cathedral and the Armenian Cathedral Judaism Edit Lviv historically had a large and active Jewish community and until 1941 at least 45 synagogues and prayer houses existed Even in the 16th century two separate communities existed One lived in today s old town with the other in the Krakowskie Przedmiescie The Golden Rose Synagogue was built in Lviv in 1582 In the 19th century a more differentiated community started to spread out Liberal Jews sought more cultural assimilation and spoke German and Polish On the other hand Orthodox and Hasidic Jews tried to retain the old traditions Between 1941 and 1944 the Germans in effect completely destroyed the centuries old Jewish tradition of Lviv Most synagogues were destroyed and the Jewish population was forced first into a ghetto before being forcibly transported to concentration camps where they were murdered 157 Under the Soviet Union synagogues remained closed and were used as warehouses or cinemas The last functioning synagogue was closed in the 1960s 158 Only since the fall of the Iron Curtain has the remainder of the Jewish community experienced a faint revival Currently the only functioning Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Lviv is the Beis Aharon V Yisrael Synagogue Arts Edit A room in the Lviv National Art Gallery The range of artistic Lviv is impressive On the one hand it is the city of classical art Lviv Opera and Lviv Philharmonic are places that can satisfy the demands of true appraisers of the classical arts This is the city of one of the most distinguished sculptors in Europe Johann Georg Pinzel whose works can be seen on the facade of the St George s Cathedral in Lviv and in the Pinzel Museum This is also the city of Solomiya Krushelnytska who began her career as a singer in Lviv Opera and later became the prima donna of La Scala Opera in Milan The Group Artes was a young movement founded in 1929 Many of the artists studied in Paris and travelled throughout Europe They worked and experimented in different areas of modern art Futurism Cubism New Objectivity and Surrealism Co operation took place between avant garde musicians and authors Altogether thirteen exhibitions by Artes took place in Warsaw Krakow Lodz and Lviv The German occupation put an end to this group Otto Hahn was executed in 1942 in Lviv and Aleksander Riemer was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 159 Henryk Streng and Margit Reich Sielska were able to escape the Holocaust or Shoah Most of the surviving members of Artes lived in Poland after 1945 Only Margit Reich Sielska 1900 1980 and Roman Sielski 1903 1990 stayed in Soviet Lviv For years the city was one of the most important cultural centres of Poland with such writers as Aleksander Fredro Gabriela Zapolska Leopold Staff Maria Konopnicka and Jan Kasprowicz living in Lviv Today Lviv is a city of fresh ideas and unusual characters There are about 20 galleries Lviv Municipal Art Center The Dzyga Gallery Art Gallery Primus Gallery of the History of Ukrainian Military Uniforms Gallery of Modern Art Zelena Kanapa and others Lviv National Art Gallery is the largest museum of arts in Ukraine with approximately 50 000 artworks including paintings sculptures and works of graphic art from Western and Eastern Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern days Theatre and opera Edit The Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre an important cultural centre for residents and visitors In 1842 the Skarbek Theatre was opened making it the third largest theatre in Central Europe In 1903 the Lviv National Opera house which at that time was called the City Theatre was opened emulating the Vienna State Opera house The house initially offered a changing repertoire such as classical dramas in German and Polish language opera operetta comedy and theatre The opera house is named after the Ukrainian opera diva Salomea Krushelnytska who worked here In the Janowska concentration camp the Nazis conducted torture and executions to music To do so they brought almost the whole Lviv National Opera to the camp Professor Shtriks opera conductor Mund and other famous Jewish musicians were among the members From 1941 to 1944 the Nazis massacred 200 000 people including all 40 musicians 160 Nowadays Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet has a large creative group of performers who strive to maintain traditions of Ukrainian opera and classical ballet The Theatre is a well organized creative body where over 500 people work towards a common goal The repertoire includes 10 Ukrainian music compositions No other similar theatre in Ukraine has such a large number of Ukrainian productions There are also many operas written by foreign composers and most of these operas are performed in the original language Othello Aida La Traviata Nabucco and A Masked Ball by G Verdi Tosca La Boheme and Madame Butterfly by G Puccini Cavalleria Rusticana by P Mascagni and Pagliacci by R Leoncavallo in Italian Carmen by G Bizet in French The Haunted Manor by S Moniuszko in Polish Museums and art galleries Edit The main building of Lviv National Museum Museum Pharmacy Pid Chornym Orlom Beneath the Black Eagle was founded in 1735 it is the oldest pharmacy in Lviv A museum related to pharmaceutical history was opened on the premises of the old pharmacy in 1966 The idea of creating such a museum had already come up in the 19th century The Galician Association of Pharmacists was created in 1868 Members managed to assemble a small collection of exhibits thus making the first step towards creating a new museum The exhibition space has expanded considerably with 16 exhibit rooms and a general exhibition surface totalling 700 sq m There are more than 3 000 exhibits in the museum This is the only operating Museum Pharmacy in Ukraine and Europe The most notable of the museums are Lviv National Museum which houses the National Gallery Its collection includes more than 140 000 unique items The museum takes special pride in presenting the largest and most complete collection of medieval sacral art of the 12th to 18th centuries icons manuscripts rare ancient books decoratively carved pieces of art metal and plastic artworks and fabrics embroidered with gold and silver The museum also boasts a unique monument of Ukrainian Baroque style the Bohorodchansky Iconostasis Exhibits include Ancient Ukrainian art from the 12th to 15th centuries Ukrainian art from the 16th to 18th centuries and Ukrainian art from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century Music Edit Lviv has an active musical and cultural life Apart from the Lviv Opera it has symphony orchestras chamber orchestras and the Trembita Chorus Lviv has one of the most prominent music academies and music colleges in Ukraine the Lviv Conservatory and a factory for stringed musical instruments Lviv has been the home of numerous composers such as Mozart s son Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart Stanislav Liudkevych Wojciech Kilar and Mykola Kolessa Flute virtuoso and composer Albert Franz Doppler 1821 1883 was born and spent his formative years here including flute lessons from his father The classical pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski 1892 1993 was born here The opera diva Salomea Kruszelnicka called Lviv her home from the 1920s to 1930s The classical violinist Adam Han Gorski was born here in 1940 Polish Radio Lwow was a Polish radio station that went on air on 15 January 1930 The programme proved very popular in Poland Classical music and entertainment was aired as well as lectures readings youth programmes news and liturgical services on Sunday Pikkardiyska Tertsiya Ukrainian a cappella musical formation Popular throughout Poland was the Comic Lwow Wave a cabaret revue with musical pieces Jewish artists contributed a great part to this artistic activity Composers such as Henryk Wars songwriters Emanuel Szlechter and Wiktor Budzynski the actor Mieczyslaw Monderer and Adolf Fleischer Aprikosenkranz und Untenbaum worked in Lviv The most notable stars of the shows were Henryk Vogelfanger and Kazimierz Wajda who appeared together as the comic duo Szczepko and Tonko and were similar to Laurel and Hardy The Lviv Philharmonic is a major cultural centre with a long history and traditions that complement Ukraine s entire culture From the stage of Lviv Philharmonic began their way to the great art world famous Ukrainian musicians Oleh Krysa Oleksandr Slobodyanik Yuriy Lysychenko and Maria Chaikovska as well as the younger musicians E Chupryk Y Ermin Oksana Rapita and Olexandr Kozarenko Lviv Philharmonic is one of Ukraine s leading concert institutions Its activities include international festivals cycles of concerts monographs and concerts with young musicians The Chamber Orchestra Lviv virtuosos was organised by the best Lviv musicians in 1994 The orchestra consists of 16 40 persons it depends on programmes and in the repertoire are included the musical compositions from Bach Corelli to modern Ukrainian and European composers During the short time of its operation the orchestra acquired the professional level of the best European standards It is mentioned in more than 100 positive articles by Ukrainian and foreign musical critics Lviv is the hometown of the Vocal formation Pikkardiyska Tertsiya and Eurovision Song Contest 2004 winner Ruslana who has since become well known in Europe and the rest of the world PikkardiyskaTertsia was created on 24 September 1992 in Lviv and has won many musical awards It all began with a quartet performing ancient Ukrainian music from the 15th century along with adaptations of traditional Ukrainian folk songs Lviv Organ Hall is a place where classical music organ symphonic cameral and art meet together 50 000 visitors each year dozens of musicians from all over the world citation needed Lviv is also the hometown of one of the most successful and popular Ukrainian rock bands Okean Elzy Universities and academia Edit The front facade of the Lviv University the oldest university in Ukraine Lviv University is one of the oldest in Central Europe and was founded as a Society of Jesus Jesuit school in 1608 Its prestige greatly increased through the work of philosopher Kazimierz Twardowski 1866 1938 who was one of the founders of the Lwow Warsaw School of Logic This school of thought set benchmarks for academic research and education in Poland The Polish politician of the interbellum period Stanislaw Glabinski had served as dean of the law department 1889 1890 and as the university rector 1908 1909 In 1901 the city was the seat of the Lwow Scientific Society among whose members were major scientific figures The most well known were the mathematicians Stefan Banach Juliusz Schauder and Stanislaw Ulam who were founders of the Lwow School of Mathematics turning Lviv in the 1930s into the World Centre of Functional Analysis and whose share in Lviv academia was substantial In 1852 in Dublany eight km 5 0 mi from the outskirts of Lviv the Agricultural Academy was opened and was one of the first Polish agricultural colleges The academy was merged with the Lviv Polytechnic in 1919 Another important college of the interbellum period was the Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwow In 1873 Lviv has founded Shevchenko Scientific Society from the beginning it attracted the financial and intellectual support of writers and patrons of Ukrainian background In 1893 due to the change in its statute the Shevchenko Scientific Society was transformed into a real scholarly multidisciplinary academy of sciences Under the presidency of the historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky it greatly expanded its activities contributing to both the humanities and the physical sciences law and medicine but most specifically once again it was concentrated on Ukrainian studies The Soviet Union annexed the eastern half of the Second Polish Republic including the city of Lwow which capitulated to the Red Army on 22 September 1939 Upon their occupation of Lviv the Soviets dissolved the Shevchenko society Many of its members were arrested and either imprisoned or executed Mathematics Edit The building of the former Scottish Cafe Lviv was the home of the Scottish Cafe where in the 1930s and the early 1940s Polish mathematicians from the Lwow School of Mathematics met and spent their afternoons discussing mathematical problems Stanislaw Ulam who was later a participant in the Manhattan Project and the proposer of the Teller Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons Stefan Banach one of the founders of functional analysis Hugo Steinhaus Karol Borsuk Kazimierz Kuratowski Mark Kac and many other notable mathematicians would gather there 161 The cafe building now houses the Atlas Deluxe Hotel at 27 Taras Shevchenko Prospekt prewar Polish street name ulica Akademicka 162 Mathematician Zygmunt Janiszewski died in Lviv on 3 January 1920 Print and media Edit Ever since the early 1990s Lviv has been the spiritual home of the post independence Ukrainian language publishing industry Lviv Book Forum International Publishers Forum is the biggest book fair in Ukraine Lviv is the centre of promotion of the Ukrainian Latin alphabet Latynka The most popular newspapers in Lviv are Vysoky Zamok Ekspres Lvivska hazeta Ratusha Subotna poshta Hazeta po lvivsky Postup and others Popular magazines include Lviv Today Chetver RIA and Yi Lviv Today is a Ukrainian English speaking magazine whose content includes information about the business advertisement and entertainment spheres in Lviv and the country in general The Lviv oblast television company transmits on channel 12 There are three private television channels operating from Lviv LUKS NTA and ZIK There are 17 regional and all Ukrainian radio stations operating in the city A number of information agencies exist in the city such as ZIK Zaxid net Gal info Lvivskij portal and others Lviv is home to one of the oldest Polish language newspapers Gazeta Lwowska which was first published in 1811 and still exists in a bi weekly form Among other publications were such titles as Kurier Lwowski associated with people s movement which existed from 1883 to 1935 Among the writers who cooperated with it were such renowned names as Eliza Orzeszkowa Jan Kasprowicz Boleslaw Limanowski Wladyslaw Orkan as well as Ivan Franko Slowo Lwowskie 1895 1939 A right wing daily which cooperated with Wladyslaw Reymont Henryk Sienkiewicz Kazimierz Tetmajer Leopold Staff Jerzy Zulawski and Gabriela Zapolska Among its editors in chief was Stanislaw Grabski In the early 20th century Slowo s circulation was 20 000 and it was the first Polish newspaper to publish a serialisation of Reymont s novel Chlopi 163 After World War II Slowo was moved to Wroclaw with first postwar issue published on 1 November 1946 Czerwony Sztandar A Soviet daily published between 1939 and 1941 This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2011 Learn how and when to remove this template message Starting in the 20th century a new movement started with authors from Central Europe In Lviv a small neo romantic group of authors formed around the lyricist Schmuel Jankev Imber who citation needed Small print offices produced collections of modern poems and short stories and through emigration a large networkwas established A second smaller group who in the 1930s tried to create a connection between avantgarde art and Yiddish culture Members of this group were Debora Vogel Rachel Auerbach and Rachel Korn The Holocaust destroyed this movement with Debora Vogel amongst many other Yiddish authors murdered by the Germans in the 1940s citation needed In cinema and literature Edit The book Tango of Death based on the true story of Jacob Mund his orchestra and dozens of thousands of other Jews who lived in Lviv at World War II The book includes 60 documentary photos to show the violent truth of the Holocaust The 2011 film In Darkness Poland s entry in the 84th Academy Awards category for Best Foreign Film is based on a true incident in Nazi occupied Lviv Some of the Austrian road movie Blue Moon was shot in Lviv Parts of the film and novel Everything Is Illuminated take place in Lviv Brian R Banks Muse amp Messiah The Life Imagination amp Legacy of Bruno Schulz 1892 1942 has several pages which discuss the history and cultural social life of the Lviv region The book includes a CD ROM with many old and new photographs and the first English map of nearby Drohobych The book The Girl in the Green Sweater A Life in Holocaust s Shadow by Krystyna Chiger takes place in Lviv Large parts of 1997 film The Truce depicting Primo Levi s war experiences were shot in Lviv Large portions of the film d Artagnan and Three Musketeers were shot in central Lviv The book The Lemberg Mosaic 2011 by Jakob Weiss describes Jewish L viv Lemberg Lwow Lvov during the period 1910 1943 focusing primarily on the Holocaust and related events In the book and film The Shoes of the Fisherman the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv is released from a Soviet labor camp and later elected Pope The 2015 film Varta 1 a movie which demonstrates the search for a new cinema features among young Ukrainian directors The film uses the radio talks of the automobile patrols of activists of Lviv during EuroMaydan and it was made to create a better understanding of the nature of the revolution The movie was shot and made in Lviv city In the book East West Street On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Philippe Sands a professor of law at University College London recounts the life and work of Hersch Lauterpacht who introduced to international law the concept of the crime against humanity and Raphael Lemkin that of genocide Both men lived and studied in Lviv 164 Parks Edit Ivan Franko Park Lviv s architectural face is complemented and enriched with numerous parks and public gardens There are over 20 basic recreation park zones three botanical gardens and 16 natural monuments They offer a splendid chance to escape from city life or simply sit for a while among the trees at a nice fountain or a lake Each park has its individual character which reflects through various monuments and their individual history Ivan Franko Park is the oldest park in the city Traces of that time may be found in three hundred year old oak and maple trees Upon the abrogation of the Jesuit order in 1773 the territory became the town property A well known gardener Bager arranged the territory in the landscape style and most of the trees were planted within 1885 1890 Bohdan Khmelnytsky Culture and Recreation Park is one of the best organised and modern green zones containing a concert and dance hall stadium the town of attractions central stage numerous cafes and restaurants In the park there is a Ferris wheel Stryiskyi park Stryiskyi Park it is considered one of the most picturesque parks in the city The park numbers over 200 species of trees and plants It is well known for a vast collection of rare and valuable trees and bushes At the main entrance gate you will find a pond with swans Znesinnya Park is an ideal site for cycling skiing sports and hiking Public organisations favour conducting summer camps here ecological and educational educational and cognitive Shevchenkivskyi Hay in the park there is an open air museum of Ukrainian wooden architecture High Castle Park the park is situated on the highest city hill 413 m or 1 355 ft and occupies the territory of 36 ha 89 acres consisting of the lower terrace once called Knyazha Hora Prince Mount and the upper terrace with a television tower and artificial embankment Zalizni Vody Park the park originated from the former garden Zalizna Voda Iron water combining Snopkivska street with Novyi Lviv district The park owes its name to the springs with high iron concentration This beautiful park with ancient beech trees and numerous paths is a favourite place for many locals Lychakivskyi Park founded in 1892 and named after the surrounding suburbs A botanic garden is situated on the park territory founded in 1911 and occupying the territory of 18 5 ha 45 7 acres Sport Edit Lviv was an important centre for sport in Central Europe and is regarded as the birthplace of Polish football Lviv is the Polish birthplace of other sports In January 1905 the first Polish ice hockey match took place there and two years later the first ski jumping competition was organised in nearby Slawsko In the same year the first Polish basketball games were organised in Lviv s gymnasiums In autumn 1887 a gymnasium by Lychakiv Street pol ulica Lyczakowska held the first Polish track and field competition with such sports as the long jump and high jump Lviv s athlete Wladyslaw Ponurski represented Austria in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm On 9 July 1922 the first official rugby game in Poland took place at the stadium of Pogon Lwow in which the rugby team of Orzel Bialy Lwow divided itself into two teams The Reds and The Blacks The referee of this game was a Frenchman by the name of Robineau A clock in Lviv on Prospekt Svobody Freedom Ave showing time to start of EURO 2012 Opera and Ballet Theatre in background The first known official goal in a Polish football match was scored there on 14 July 1894 during the Lwow Krakow game The goal was scored by Wlodzimierz Chomicki who represented the team of Lviv In 1904 Kazimierz Hemerling from Lviv published the first translation of the rules of football into Polish and another native of Lviv Stanislaw Polakiewicz became the first officially recognised Polish referee in 1911 the year in which the first Polish Football Federation was founded in Lviv The first Polish professional football club Czarni Lwow opened here in 1903 and the first stadium which belonged to Pogon in 1913 Another club Pogon Lwow was four times football champion of Poland 1922 1923 1925 and 1926 In the late 1920s as many as four teams from the city played in the Polish Football League Pogon Czarni Hasmonea and Lechia Hasmonea was the first Jewish football club in Poland Several notable figures of Polish football came from the city including Kazimierz Gorski Ryszard Koncewicz Michal Matyas and Waclaw Kuchar In the period 1900 1911 opened the most famous football clubs in Lviv Professor Ivan Bobersky has based in the Academic grammar school the first Ukrainian sports circle where schoolboys were engaged in track and field football boxing hockey skiing tourism and sledge sports in 1906 He organised the Ukrainian Sports circle in 1908 Much its pupils in due course in 1911 formed a sports society with the loud name Ukraine the first Ukrainian football club in Lviv 165 Lviv now has several major professional football clubs and some smaller clubs Two teams from the city FC Rukh Lviv and FC Lviv currently play in the Ukrainian Premier League the top level of football in the country FC Karpaty Lviv founded in 1963 has historically been the largest club in the city At the end of the 2019 20 Ukrainian Premier League season Karpaty was expelled from the league for failing to appear to two games 166 They currently play in the Ukrainian Second League the third level of Ukrainian football Sometimes citizens of Lviv assemble on the central street Freedom Avenue to watch and cheer during outdoor broadcasts of games There are three major stadiums in Lviv One of them is the Ukraina Stadium which is leased to FC Karpaty Lviv until 2018 Arena Lviv is a brand new football stadium that was an official venue for Euro 2012 Championship games in Lviv Construction work began on 20 November 2008 and was completed by October 2011 The opening ceremony took place on 29 October with a vast theatrical production dedicated to the history of Lviv 167 Arena Lviv is the home ground of FC Lviv and played host to Shakhtar Donetsk between 2014 and 2016 due to the ongoing war in Donbas Lviv s chess school enjoys a good reputation such notable grandmasters as Vassily Ivanchuk Leonid Stein Alexander Beliavsky Andrei Volokitin used to live in Lviv 168 Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk lives in Lviv Lviv was originally bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympics 169 but has withdrawn and will now most likely bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics Tourism Edit Market Rynok SquareMarket Rynok Square is a major tourist attraction in Lviv Due to a comprehensive cultural programme and tourism infrastructure having more than 8 000 hotel rooms over 1300 cafes and restaurants 170 free WI Fi zones in the city centre and good connection with many countries of the world Lviv is considered one of Ukraine s major tourist destinations 171 The city had a 40 increase in tourist visits in the early 2010s the highest rate in Europe 171 The most popular tourist attractions include the Old Town and the Market Square Ukrainian Ploshcha Rynok which is an 18 300 m2 196 980 sq ft square in the city centre where the City Hall is situated as well as the Black House Ukrainian Chorna Kamyanytsia Armenian Cathedral the complex of the Dormition Church which is the main Orthodox church in the city the St Peter and Paul Church of the Jesuit Order one of the largest churches in Lviv along with the Korniakt Palace now part of the Lviv History Museum Other prominent sites include the Latin Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary St George s Cathedral of the Greek Catholic Church the Dominican Church of Corpus Christi Chapel of the Boim family the Lviv High Castle Ukrainian Vysokyi Zamok on a hill overlooking the centre of the city the Union of Lublin Mound the Lychakivskiy Cemetery where the notable people were buried and the Svobody Prospekt which is Lviv s central street Other popular places include Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet the Potocki Palace and the Bernardine Church Landmarks and points of interest Bernardine Church Dominican Church Potocki Palace St George s Cathedral Lviv View on Old Town a UNESCO World Heritage SitePopular culture Edit A confectioner makes chocolate lions at the Festival of Chocolate The native residents of the city are jokingly known as the Lvivian batiary someone who s mischievous Lvivians are also well known for their way of speaking that was greatly influenced by the Lvivian gwara talk 172 Wesola Lwowska Fala Polish for Lwow s Merry Wave was a weekly radio program of the Polish Radio Lwow with Szczepko and Tonko later starring in Bedzie lepiej and The Vagabonds The Shoes of the Fisherman both Morris L West s novel and its 1968 film adaptation had the titular pope as having been its former archbishop clarification needed citation needed Lviv has established many city feasts such as coffee and chocolate feasts cheese amp wine holiday the feast of pampukh the Day of Batyar Annual Bread Day and others Over 50 festivals happen in Lviv such as Leopolis Jazz Fest an international jazz festival the Leopolis Grand Prix an international festival of vintage cars international festival of academic music Virtuosi Stare Misto Rock Fest medieval festival Lviv Legend international Etnovyr folklore festival initiated by UNESCO international festival of visual art Wiz Art international theatrical festival Golden Lion Lviv Lumines Fluorescent Art Festival Festival of Contemporary Dramaturgy international contemporary music festival Contrasts Lviv international literary festival Krayina Mriy gastronomic festival Lviv on a Plate organ music festival Diapason international independent film festival KinoLev international festival LvivKlezFest and international media festival MediaDepo citation needed Lviv honors the memory of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych The Lviv regional council approved an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on March 16 2021 requesting that the largest stadium here be renamed after these two men 173 Bandera led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army which fought alongside Nazi Germany during WWII killing thousands of Jews and Poles 174 In 1940 Shukhevych commanded a military unit of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists OUN that actively collaborated with the Nazis 175 Public transport EditSee also Trams in Lviv A Lviv tram in the Old Town Historically the first horse drawn tramway lines in Lviv were inaugurated on 5 May 1880 An electric tram was introduced on 31 May 1894 The last horse drawn line was transferred to electric traction in 1908 In 1922 the tramways were switched to driving on the right hand side After the annexation of the city by the Soviet Union several lines were closed but most of the infrastructure was preserved The tracks are narrow gauge unusual for the Soviet Union but explained by the fact that the system was built while the city was part of the Austro Hungarian Empire and needed to run in narrow medieval streets in the centre of town The Lviv tramway system now runs about 220 cars on 75 km 47 mi of track Many tracks were reconstructed around 2006 The price in February 2019 of a tram trolleybus ticket was 5 UAH the reduced fare ticket was 2 5 UAH e g for students The ticket may be purchased from the driver After World War II the city grew rapidly due to evacuees returning from Russia and the Soviet Government s vigorous development of heavy industry This included the transfer of entire factories from the Urals and others to the newly liberated territories of the USSR The city centre tramway lines were replaced with trolleybuses on 27 November 1952 New lines were opened to the blocks of flats at the city outskirts The network now runs about 100 trolleybuses mostly of the 1980s Skoda 14Tr and LAZ 52522 From 2006 to 2008 11 modern low floor trolleybuses LAZ E183 built by the Lviv Bus Factory were purchased The public bus network is represented by mini buses so called marshrutka and large buses mainly LAZ and MAN On 1 January 2013 the city had 52 public bus routes The price is 7 00 UAH regardless of the distance travelled The ticket may be purchased from the driver Railways Edit Main article Lviv Railways Lviv s Main Railway Terminal Modern Lviv remains a hub on which nine railways converge providing local and international services Lviv railway is one of the oldest in Ukraine The first train arrived in Lviv on 4 November 1861 The main Lviv Railway Station designed by Wladyslaw Sadlowski was built in 1904 and was considered one of the best in Europe from both the architectural and technical aspects In the inter war period Lviv known then as Lwow was one of the most important hubs of the Polish State Railways The Lwow junction consisted of four stations in mid 1939 main station Lwow Glowny now Ukrainian Lviv Holovnyi Lwow Kleparow now Lviv Klepariv Lwow Lyczakow now Lviv Lychakiv and Lwow Podzamcze now Lviv Pidzamche In August 1939 just before World War II 73 trains departed daily from the Main Station including 56 local and 17 fast trains Lwow was directly connected with all major centres of the Second Polish Republic as well as such cities as Berlin Bucharest and Budapest 176 Currently several trains cross the nearby Polish Ukrainian border mostly via Przemysl in Poland There are good connections to Slovakia Kosice and Hungary Budapest citation needed Many routes have overnight trains with sleeping compartments Lviv railway is often called the main gateway from Ukraine to Europe although buses are often a cheaper and more convenient way of entering the Schengen countries Lviv used to have a Railbus which has since been replaced with other means of public transport It was a motor rail car that ran from the largest district of Lviv to one of the largest industrial zones going through the central railway station It made seven trips a day and was meant to provide a faster and more comfortable connection between the remote urban districts The price in February 2010 of a one way single ride in the railbus was 1 50 UAH On 15 June 2010 the route was cancelled as unprofitable Air transport Edit Lviv International Airport The beginnings of aviation in Lviv reach back to 1884 when the Aeronautic Society was opened there The society issued its own magazine Astronauta but soon ceased to exist In 1909 on the initiative of Edmund Libanski the Awiata Society was founded Among its members there was a group of professors and students of the Lviv Polytechnic including Stefan Drzewiecki and Zygmunt Sochacki Awiata was the oldest Polish organization of this kind and it concentrated its activities mainly on exhibitions such as the First Aviation Exhibition which took place in 1910 and featured models of aircraft built by Lviv students 177 In 1913 1914 brothers Tadeusz and Wladyslaw Florianscy built a two seater aeroplane When World War I broke out Austrian authorities confiscated it but did not manage to evacuate the plane in time and it was seized by the Russians who used the plane for intelligence purposes The Florianski brothers plane was the first Polish made aircraft On 5 November 1918 a crew consisting of Stefan Bastyr and Janusz de Beaurain carried out the first ever flight under the Polish flag taking off from Lviv s Lewandowka now Ukrainian Levandivka airport 177 In the interbellum period Lwow was a major centre of gliding with a notable Gliding School in Bezmiechowa which opened in 1932 In the same year the Institute of Gliding Technology was opened in Lwow and was the second such institute in the world In 1938 the First Polish Aircraft Exhibition took place in the city The interwar Lwow was also a major centre of the Polish Air Force with the Sixth Air Regiment located there The Regiment was based at the Lwow airport opened in 1924 in the suburb of Sknilow today Ukrainian Sknyliv The airport is located 6 km 4 mi from the city centre 178 In 2012 after renovation Lviv Airport got a new official name Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport LWO 179 A new terminal and other improvements worth under a 200 million has been done in preparation for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship 180 The connection from Airport to the city centre is maintained by bus No 48 and No 9 Bicycle lanes Edit Police patrol by bicycles in the tourist area of Lviv Cycling is a new but growing mode of transport in Lviv In 2011 the City of Lviv ratified an ambitious 9 year program for the set up of cycling infrastructure 181 until the year 2019 an overall length of 270 km 168 mi cycle lanes and tracks shall be realized A working group formally organised within the City Council bringing together representatives of the city administration members of planning and design institutes local NGOs and other stakeholders Events like the All Ukrainian Bikeday 182 or the European Mobility Week 183 show the popularity of cycling among Lviv s citizens By September 2011 8 km 5 mi of new cycling infrastructure had been built It can be expected that until the end of 2011 50 km 31 mi will be ready for use The cycling advisor in Lviv the first such position in Ukraine is supervising and pushing forward the execution of the cycling plan and coordinates with various people in the city The development of cycling in Ukraine is currently hampered by outdated planning norms and the fact that most planners didn t yet plan and experience cycling infrastructure The update of national legislation and training for planners is therefore necessary In 2015 the first stations have been set up for a new bike sharing system Nextbike the first of its kind in Ukraine New bike lanes are also under construction making Lviv the most bike friendly city in the country The City Council plans to build an entire cycling infrastructure by 2020 with cycle lanes 268 km or 167 mi and street bike hire services Education EditMain article List of universities in Ukraine Lviv Polytechnic Lviv National Stepan Gzhytsky University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology Lviv is an important education centre in Ukraine The city contains a total of 12 universities 8 academies and a number of smaller schools of higher education In addition within Lviv there is a total of eight institutes of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine and more than forty research institutes These research institutes include the Centre of Institute for Space Research the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics the Institute of Cell Biology the National Institute of Strategic Studies the Institute of Neuro mathematical Simulation in Power Engineering and the Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians In Soviet times the city of Lviv was the location where the software for the Lunokhod programme was developed The technology for the Venera series probes and the first orbital shuttle Buran were also developed in Lviv A considerable scientific potential is concentrated in the city by the number of doctors of sciences candidates of sciences scientific organisations Lviv is the fourth city in Ukraine Lviv is also known for ancient academic traditions founded by the Assumption Brotherhood School and the Jesuit Collegium Over 100 000 students annually study in more than 50 higher educational establishments Educational level of residents 184 Basic and complete secondary education 10 Specialized secondary education 25 Incomplete higher education undergraduates 13 Higher education graduates 51 PhD postgraduates about 1 Universities Edit Anatomy Department Building of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University one of the oldest and prime medical institute of Ukraine Ivan Franko National University of Lviv ukr Lvivskij nacionalnij universitet imeni Ivana Franka Lviv Polytechnic ukr Nacionalnij universitet Lvivska politehnika Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University ukr Lvivskij nacionalnij medichnij universitet im Danila Galickogo Lviv Stepan Gzhytsky national university of veterinary medicine and biotechnologies ukr Lvivskij nacionalnij universitet veterinarnoyi medicini ta biotehnologij imeni Stepana Gzhickogo National Forestry Engineering University of Ukraine ukr Ukrayinskij nacionalnij lisotehnichnij universitet Ukrainian Catholic University ukr Ukrayinskij katolickij universitet The Lviv National Academy of Arts ukr Lvivska nacionalna akademiya mistectv Lviv National Agrarian University ukr Lvivskij nacionalnij agrarnij universitet Lviv State University of Physical Training ukr Lvivskij derzhavnij universitet fizichnoyi kulturi Lviv Academy of Commerce ukr Lvivska komercijna akademiya Lviv State University of Life Safety ukr Lvivskij derzhavnij universitet bezpeki zhittyediyalnosti Lviv State University of Interior ukr Lvivskij derzhavnij universitet vnutrishnih sprav Notable people EditMain article List of LeopolitansInternational relations EditTwin towns and sister cities Edit Aleksander Fredro Monument moved from Lviv to Wroclaw its sister city after World War II See also List of twin towns and sister cities in Ukraine City State YearWinnipeg Canada 1973Corning United States 1987Freiburg im Breisgau Germany 1989Rzeszow 185 Poland 1992Rochdale United Kingdom 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