“InLviv” tour operator wants to make the contribution by offering our guests the city tours and staying in the privately owned apartments. The apartments in Lviv city center that are offered at the discount rate are:

One room apartments:
Arkhitektors’ka Str 5/3a
www.inlviv.info/apartments/1room/43/
Vesela str 1
www.inlviv.info/apartments/1room/106/
Uzhorodska Str 19
www.inlviv.info/apartments/1room/173/
Staroyevreyska Str 11/10
www.inlviv.info/apartments/1room/118/

Two room apartments:
Lesi Ukrayinky Str 12/1
www.inlviv.info/apartments/2room/56/
Virmenska Str 2/6
www.inlviv.info/apartments/2room/105/
Ryleyeva Str 12
www.inlviv.info/apartments/2room/138/
Kniazia Romana Str 6
www.inlviv.info/apartments/2room/139/

Four room apartment:
Borovykovskoho Str 12
www.inlviv.info/apartments/4room/136/

These apartments as well as the city tour can be reserved for you at half price of that indicated on our web page. The apartments or tours can be booked at “InLviv” office, by e-mail or by phone:
www.inlviv.info/contacts/
Phone number +380322728001, +380984492525.

We advise to take advantage of this opportunity – such offers do not happen very often.

Gallery-PhotoClub “Ch/B.5×5” /White/Black 5 x5 (corner of street Brothers of Rogatinciv and areas of Koliivschini)

Art Project “Ch/B.5×5” proposes the exhibitions of known Ukrainian & foreign photo-artists, monochromatic format. Each exhibition consists of five large-format contemporary photo works exhibited on the facade of an ancient building ,located just in the heart of the medieval city and five conceptually related works are exposed in the interior of the PhotoClub “Ch/B.5×5”.

Gallery PhotClub “Ch/B.5×5″ is a new project of Art Association “Dzyga” and organization “Unia”. It presupposes the creation of some non formal photographic association ivolving as individual photographers regardless of skill level as already existing photo-groups.

The program of the mentioned association will include: a permanent art project “Ch/B.5×5” , solo & group exhibitions of the Photographic Association’s members, video presentations and discussions concerning the “portfolio” of young photographers, photography contests, master-classes of prominent photo-artist, lectures on actual topics of contemporary photo-art, nonstop slide-shows and just chats in an informal atmosphere.

Igor Gaidai was born in 1961.

1985 – graduated from the Karpenko-Kary Institute of Theatre Arts at Kyiv with a Specialist Degree of Cinema Operator
Thesis “DRAGON” awarded at the Festival “Youth,” “WORLD CINEMA SCHOOLS FESTIVAL,” etc.

1980 – 1984 – solo exhibitions in Kyiv

1985 – 1987 – professor at Film Directing Department, Karpenko-Kary Institute of Theatre Arts at Kyiv (photo lighting, composition)

1987 – 1991 – art photographer at Dovzhenko Film Studio

1990 – present – leads a private photo studio, Kyiv, Ukraine

1991 – exhibition at Hinesburg, Frankfurt, Germany

1993 – participation in the exhibition «IMAGES D’UKRAINE», Gallery “Chateau d`Eau”, Toulouse, France

1994 – solo exhition at the French Culture Center in Kyiv, Ukraine

1996 – Two solo exhibitions and publications in the photo magazine “Photo Magazine,” Leipzig, Germany

2001 – participation in the exhibition BRAND “UKRAINIAN”, Centre of Contemporary Art under National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2002 – exhibition “The Ukrainians. The Start of the Third Millenium”, Representative office of Kodak in Ukraine

2003 – exhibition “The Ukrainians. The Start of the Third Millenium”,“Art-East” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2003 – project “The Ukrainians. The Start of the Third Millenium”,
Publication of the photo-book. Exhibition in the Centre of Contemporary Art, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2004 – exhibition “Ukrainians …”, Wroclaw, Poland

2005
exhibition «NU», “L-Art” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
exhibition “Cosmos of Ukrainian Bread”, «CAMERA» Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
exhibition «Ukrainians …», Kyiv, Ukraine
exhibition «Ukrainians …», “Le Pont Neuf” Gallery, Paris, France
exhibition «Ukrainians …», «Ferme Sarasin» Gallery, Geneve, Switzerland

2006
exhibition «Home Alone», «??????» Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
exhibition «Ukrainians …», Krakow, Poland
exhibition “Cosmos of Ukrainian Bread”, Gallery of Art Development Fund, Kyiv, Ukraine
exhibition «Ukrainians …», “Porcia” Palace, Vienna, Austria

2007
exhibition «AQUA», «KAMERA» Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
exhibition «RAZOM.UA» (TOGETHER), Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
exhibition « Along the way » joint with Jean Belondrad, Gallery of Art Development Fund, Kyiv, Ukraine
photos of a series «S???N», GOGOLFEST‘2007, part in the art-culture and museum complex
«ART ARSENAL», Kyiv, Ukraine

2008
exhibition « RAZOM.UA», Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
exhibition «Along the way» joint with Jean Belondrad, Donetsk, Ukaine
exhibition «Ukrainians …», «Mediateque», Toulouse, France
exhibition «Along the way» joint with Jean Belondrad, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukaine
exhibition “Space of Ukrainian Bread”, GOGOLFEST‘2008, part in the art-culture and museum complex «ART ARSENAL», Kyiv, Ukraine
exhibition «Ukrainians …», Hophburg, Innsbruck, Ausrtia
exhibition «9 months + 3 days», Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
publication of photo-book «9 months + 3 days»
exhibition «9 months + 3 days», «BOTTEGA» Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2009
exhibition «9 months + 3 days», gallery of «?», Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine
exibition «Family of Ukraine», «KAMERA» Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

Lviv Has Been Recognized As The Cultural Capital Of Ukraine 2009

On the 28th of April 2009, Lviv has been recognized as the cultural capital of Ukraine. This status award was given based on expert research of The State service of tourism and resorts and “The Council on tourism and resorts issues”. The main reasons of such obtaining is the conducting of more than 100 festivals annually, 60 museums, 100 churches of different confessions, and the big tourist interest in Lviv.

For the past 2 years the tourist stream to the city increased in 40 %, and now it is more than a million people per year.

Among the foreigners, the biggest quantity of tourists are from Poland, Germany, Austria, Belarus, USA, Russia.

The city is known as a center of art, literature, music and theatre. Nowadays, the indisputable evidences of the city cultural richness is the big number of theaters, concert halls, creative units, and also the holding of many art actions. Temples, frescos, paintings, traditions, feasts, festivals, – all these are the heirdom of the past and the product of the present genius, which can be felt only in Lviv.

Owing to enriched cultural programme, developed infrastructure (now Lviv has more than 8 000 hotel rooms, more 700 caterings, free WI-Fi zones in the center of the city, and has good connection with many countries of the world, thanks to flights of Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, LOT, CarpatAir, low-cost-carrier Wizzair) Lviv has the biggest tourist potential in Ukraine.

This is also facilitated by the presence of stuff, which provides the demand in cultural and tourist spheres. Lviv has 23 educational institutions, of which 7 have such directions.

According to the statics, more than 10 thousand tourists come to each city festival.

In confirmation of the big potential of the development is the research of international consulting company Monitor Group, who drafts the strategy of Lviv competitiveness. According to this research, tourism and IT-sector are the most attractive clusters of the development in Lviv.

The special motivation factor is the possibility of holding the EURO-2012 in Lviv.

To make the infrastructure better, the new city transport strategy for 20 years is being working out. It is elaborated by German company PTV AG.

Besides, according to the latest data (the rating of well-known audit company KPMG), Lviv is one of the 30 most attractive cities of the world to develop the IT-technologies.

Lviv has established many city-feasts, such as Coffee and Chocolate feasts, the feast of pampukh, The Day of Batyar, such festivals as “Ethnovyr”, “Krayina Mriy”, the international theatrical festival “Golden Lion”, the young theatrical festival “Drabyna”, that has already became traditional for the citizens and visitors of Lviv.

In the course of ten days they will be demonstrating, in practice, restoration of two entrance doors on the renowned Rynok Square in Lviv downtown being a typical example of the local architecture of the late 18th – early 19th centuries, including that of classicism. A second stage of the trainings envisages elaboration of a long-term program to help rehabilitate the bramas in association with the German Bureau of Technical Cooperation (GTZ) that will co-fund the renovation works. In general, it is also planned to improve the state of historical monuments in the ancient part of Lviv inscribed into the UNESCO World Heritage List. As reported, the German government has decided to implement in Lviv a project entitled УRevitalization of Historical Areas’ in frames of UEFA EURO 2012 preparations. On May 13, 2009, UEFA selected Kyiv and preliminarily Donetsk, Lviv and Kharkiv as host cities for the UEFA EURO 2012 European Football Championship. Ukraine and Poland have been chosen as co-hosts for UEFA EURO 2012.