The Lviv School of Mathematics was a group of mathematicians who worked between the World Wars in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). They often met at the famous Scottish Café to discuss mathematical problems, and published in the journal Studia Mathematica, founded in 1929. (more…)
The Ethnography and Folk Crafts Museum at the Institute of Ethnology at the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences was founded in 951 following the merge of two large Lviv museum centers City Industrial Museum, founded in 1874, and T. Shevchenko Scholarly Society Museum (1895). (more…)
The Lviv Art Gallery is the largest and the richest museum in Ukraine. Today the museum complex is composed of 24 buildings and 15 museums; its area amounts to more than 50 hectares. (more…)
Ukraine’s oldest theatre for children and youth founded in 1920 in Kharkiv, the former capital. Since 1944 the Theatre has been based in L’viv. (more…)
The Les Kurbas Theatre of L’viv is one of Ukraine’s most critically acclaimed theatres - both in Ukraine and abroad. The Les Kurbas Theatre of L’viv was founded in 1988 by Volodymyr Kuchynsky and a troupe of young actors who, like the celebrated Ukrainian director Les Kurbas and his collegues in 1918, found themselves to be “newly trained…stuck amid old repertoires and longing for some more.” (more…)
The young, but very popular theatre. L’viv Voskresinnia Theatre was founded in 1990 by Yaroslav Fedoryshyn and group of young actors from various cities of Ukraine. (more…)
The Maria Zankovetska Drama Theatre is the national theatre with national repertoire. The historic building housing this theatre was once the biggest in Europe, and the Theatre is the oldest in Ukraine. (more…)
Jesuit Cahedral is an example of Lviv Baroque style and was erected at the time when the Jesuit Order was consolidating its position in the Western Ukraine. (more…)
The synagogue was built between 1582-1594. Due to legend and the presence of a mosaic rosette on the floor of the temple, L’vivians called the synagogue “Golden Rosa”. As to its design the synagogue was rectangular in its shape, with Gothic vaults, embellished with Renaissance stucco moulding. (more…)
The Greek Catholic St. George Cathedral is a pearl of old L’viv architecture. It is a beautiful relic in the Rococo style. St. George Cathedral is the main sanctuary of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. In July 1700 the act of consolidation of Lviv archdiocese with Rome was proclaimed here. (more…)
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