The same monastery became his place of eternal rest. Both sides of the Volynskyy Way the main town street at that time abounded in wooden architectural buildings, like St. Theodore, Resurrection, St. Michael Ukrainian churches, along with St. Jacob and St. Christ Armenian Churches. However, they havent preserved till today.

Historic and Architectural Lviv (Part 2)

The Renaissance architecture of Lviv is supplemented with two more masterpieces: the Chapel of Kapyans (1619) and the Chapel of Boims (1609-1617). These used to serve as mausoleums of their kind burial vaults for the rich city citizens. The chapels impress with the variety [...]

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Within centuries Lviv was developing its authentic culture and art which incorporated extensive local traditions and cultural influence of other nations.

As a city with time-honored heritage, Lviv is rich with museums over twenty. National Museum is a true pearl. It was founded on the initiative of the great staded metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyy. The biggest world collection of Ukrainian icon paintings is found among its exhibits. Lviv Art gallery is known far beyond the borders of Ukraine. Walking up and down the picturesque hills of Shevchenkivskyy [...]

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Lviv is a city that became an insurmountable fortress of the Ukrainian character, a capital of the national spirit of Ukraine. History of Lviv is soaked through with freedom loving and democratic traditions. Within centuries elite of the Ukrainian nation was being fostered in Lviv. Lviv has been and remains the stronghold of the national idea.

Citizens of Lviv have always taken a keen interest in the global state issues. Through the long centuries, even in captivity Lviv would always cherish the hope for independence and [...]

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Traditionally Lviv is considered as a Western Ukrainian scientific and educational center. A considerable scientific potential is concentrated in the city: by the number of doctors of sciences, candidates of sciences, scientific organizations Lviv is the fourth city in Ukraine. The Western Scientific Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is situated here, which coordinates scientific and research activities of scientific and educational institutions at the territory of Lviv, Transcarpathian, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Rivne and Volyn regions.

Lviv is known for ancient academic [...]

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Its world recognition Lviv has gained in the field of sports. Well-known Kart chess school has educated such professionals as Martha Litynska, Oleh Romanyshyn, Yuriy Bilyavskyy, Adrian Mykhalchyshyn, Vasyl Ivanchuk.

The first steps of the Olympic ladder were taken here by Pavlo Lednyov, Bohdan Makuts, Viktor Chukarin, Vasyl Bereza, Mykhaylo Slivinskyy, Rostyslav Zaulichnyy, Myron Krokhmalnyy, Valeriy Brumel, Ihor Ter-Ovanesyan, Vasyl Stankovych, Yaroslav Dumanskyy, Oleh Luzhnyy, Hryhoriy Batych. Fedir Kulechkos tennis school is considered one of the oldest in Ukraine. Its followers won first prizes in prestigious [...]

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THE LVIV NATIONAL MUSEUM

20 Svobody Avenue, 79008, Lviv
tel. (0322) 74-22-82, 74-22-80
The working hours: Monday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday – Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday – day off.
Catalogues, booklets, and other printed matter you will find in 20 Svobody Avenue.
The Lviv National Museum is one of the most outstanding museums of Ukraine, which funds contain over 130 thousand museum items. The collection was founded in 1905 as Mytropolitan Sheptytskyy’s private foundation. In 1913 by a ceremonial deed the Metropolitan donated [...]

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BOIMS CHAPEL

1 Katedralna Str., Lviv
Working hours: daily in summertime, except Monday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Built in 1609-1615 at the cost of Lviv merchant Georgiy Boim, as a family shrine. Some researches consider Andriy Bemer to be the architect of the building. Sculptural decoration of the chapel was made in 1612-1615 (Y. Pfister, G. Scholz [...]

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THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND FOLK CRAFT MUSEUM

15 Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, tel. (0322) 72-78-08, 72-70-12, e-mail: mehp @ ethnolog. Lviv. ua
The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., days off Monday, Tuesday. You can buy scientific and popular scientific literature in the issues of history of the Ukrainian art, folk culture and artistic crafts, ethnology and folklore study, ethnic linguistics, and ethnic political science. You will be offered a wide variety of folk artists, professionals, authoring pieces of fine and applied arts, [...]

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