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  • Vul. Mechnikova – Lychakivskyi (Lychakiv) cemetery

    Lychakivsky (Lychakiv) cemetery is situated close to Mechnykova street; its territory occupies the Lychakiv plateau and its vicinities. As for today, this is the oldest preserved cemetery in Lviv which was officially opened in 1786. It is one of the best known European necropolises containing a lot of artistic monuments. The cemetery has been declared a historical, archaeological and artistic monument of national significance. There one can see the graves of many prominent persons, military burial places belonging to the times of the First and Second World Wars etc.

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  • Territory of Lychakiv cemetery – Polish military cemetery
    The Polish military memorial or the Cemetery of the defenders of Lviv, also called the Cemetery of Eaglets (Cmentarz Orląt), is located on a plot below Lychakivsky cemetery. The Poles who fought against the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic in 1918 and against the Bolsheviks in 1920, those fallen in the German-Polish war of 1939 and participants of the Resistance Movement (1922-1944) were buried there. In 1971 the cemetery was destroyed by the Soviet authorities; a part of its territory was occupied by Banakha street which was built in the same year. In 1989-2005 the memorial was partially reconstructed.
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  • Vul. Mechnikova – Lychakivskyi (Lychakiv) cemetery

    Vul. Mechnikova – Lychakivskyi (Lychakiv) cemetery
  • Territory of Lychakiv cemetery – Polish military cemetery

    Territory of Lychakiv cemetery – Polish military cemetery