All About L’viv

Lviv is the hometown of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 winner Ruslana and has since her victory become a huge hit around Europe. (more…)

Roman Ros well known musician from L’viv, Ukraine. Roman represents modern music streams such as folk jazz, free musics, ethnic instrumentals. (more…)

Yuri Bashmet - indisputably the world’s greatest living violist. He was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1953 and grew up in L’viv in the Ukraine. That is why many people from L’viv argue that Yuri Bashmet was actually born in L’viv. (more…)

Bohdan Stupka - actor of theatre and cinematograph. Over 100 roles in theatre and over 50 roles in cinematograph.

His biggest success has been and still is “Tevje - Tevel” as well as such well-known fims like “With Fire and Sword” (Ogniem i Mieczem) and “East-West”. (more…)

Zbigniew Łagocki (1927) born in Lviv. In Poland famous thanks some very important for development of photography in Poland exhibitions: Subjective Photography (1968) and Seeking Photographers (1971). (more…)

Stanislaw Lem - prominent science fiction writers of the 20th century, classic writer of contemporary sci-fi - was born in L’viv and lived there for a quarter of a century. «I recall the gates, the stairs, the doors, the corridors and the rooms of that house in Brayerovsk St., where I was born.» wrote Lem 40 years past…

His works have been translated and reprinted in 40 languages and are popular all around the globe.

Stanislaw Tsalyk Lem was born in Lviv on Sept. 12, 1921 to the family of a famous laryngologist. The house at 4 Brayerovsk St. (today Bohdan Lepkiy St.)- in which the Lem family lived on the 3rd floor is still standing today.
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Can you hear the shape of a drum?
Mark Kac (pronounced kahts, Polish: Marek Kac, b. 3 August 1914, Krzemieniec, then in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine; d. 26 October 1984, California, USA) was a Polish and American mathematician of Jewish ancestry [1]. His main interest was probability theory. His question “can you hear the shape of a drum?” set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was “no”, in general.) His book of popularisation with Stanislaw Ulam is a minor classic. (more…)

world-known artist - pianist, international virtuoso, one of the biggest classic music stars of the 1920-1930s, student of three of Liszt’s students: Thern, Sauer, and d’Albert, fluent in and a connoisseur of literature and poetry of seven languages. (more…)

Bedouin from Lemberg. Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss in July 1900 in what was then Lemberg in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv in Ukraine; died 1992) was a Jew who converted to Islam. (more…)

Zygmunt Gorgolewski - main architect of the Opera House (Grand Theatre) (1897–1900). To avoid being accused of using his well-established position in society, Gorgolewski prepared his winning project of the theatre in secret and then sent it under a false name from Leipzig.

Zygmunt Gorgolewski died July 5, 1903 in Lviv and was buried in the Lyczakiv Cemetery. (more…)