Leading Galician politician of Ukrainian (Ruthenian) origin, advocate, economist, journalist and translator.
Yevhen Olesnytskyi (1860-1917) was a leading Galician politician of Ruthenian origin, but also an advocate, economist, journalist and translator who from 1899 was the active member of the academic society NTSh. He graduated from the gimnasium in Tarnopol and Lemberg University. Until 1891 Olesnytskyi resided in Lviv (then Lemberg), then in Stryi, where he maintained his advocacy office. Between 1900-1910 Olesnytskyi served as deputy to the Provincial Parliament (Sejm) and between 1907-1917 he was the deputy to the Austrian Parliament in Vienna. Consequently, in 1901-1914 Olesnytskyi resided in Lviv, and in 1907-1917 in Vienna. He was one of the most active Ruthenian politicians in the issue of the establishment of a Ruthenian (Ukrainian) University in Lemberg at the Austrian Parliament. He also organised and founded a number of societies and unions in the Galician countryside: Ruthenian National Institute (Narodnyi Dim), branches of populist Prosvita society, civil organisations such as what became later Ruthenian trade union Maslosoyuz.
In 1909 Olesnytskyi was one of the organisers of the Provincial Agricultural Exhibition (Krajowa Wystawa Rolnicza) in Stryi; he was also the co-organiser of other financial unions of Galician Ruthenians such as Dnister,Zemelnyi Bank, and Centrobank.
A three-storied
residential building constructed in 1906 under a project designed by architect Ivan Levynskyi (Jan Lewiński) for Henryk
Gottlieb Haszlakiewicz. This is a residential townhouse in the style of Secession (Art Nouveau) with some elements of the
Neo-Romanesque and Neo-Gothic styles, an architectural
monument (protection number M-7). Among the
residents of this house in the early 20th century, there
were Yevhen Olesnytskyi, a member of the Galician Sejm and of
the Imperial Council in Vienna, and Adam
Krechowiecki, the editor of Gazeta Lwówska; architects Adam Opolski and Ignacy Kędzerski had their office there. Today
the building is used for dwelling
purposes.
A former convent school, later – a Lviv University building. It was originally built in 18th century, one of the major reconstructions was carried out in 1842 according to design of Fidelis Stadler. It is an example of Neo-Classicism in Lviv. It was built for a Jesuit convent school for young people from noble families. Later it housed military barracks. In 1851 it was transferred to the ownership of Lviv Franz-Joseph I University. Today (2015) it is one of Lviv Ivan Franko National University, it's Biology Department is located here.
The former Galician Sejm building (now the main building of the Lviv National Ivan Franko University) was constructed in 1877-1881 under a project designed by architect Juliusz Hochberger. The monumental Sejm building belongs to the Historicist style influenced by the Vienna Neo-Renaissance architecture of the second half of the 19th century; it is notable for its rich sculpture and ornamental decorations.
The building of the former
sports society "Dnister" was built in 1905–1906 by a
construction company of Ivan Levynskyi. The architects were Tadeusz Obmiński and Oleksandr Lushpynskyi. It is a monument of architecture and urban planning of local significance: protection number М-250.
Presently, it is a communal property (it is owned by a local
community of Lviv represented by Lviv City Council). It is used by a medical institution Municipal
Polyclinic No 1, and the sports society "Ukrayina."
Vul. Akademika Bohomoltsia, 7 – residential building
Vul. Hrushevskoho, 4 – Lviv National Franko University building
Vul. Universytetska, 1 – Lviv Ivan Franko National University main building
Vul. Ruska, 20 – former gyms of "Sokil-Batko" society
Organizations
Ukrainian National Democratic Party
The Ukrainian National Democratic Party (1899-1919) was the leading
Ukrainian political party of Galicia in the early 20th century. It
was formed as a result of a merger of two important political movements,
namely, the national-radical wing of the Ruthenian-Ukrainian Radical Party
(RURP) and the so-called populists (or narodovtsi),
members of the Narodna Rada (People's
Council). After the 1907 elections, the party had the largest parliamentary
representation in Vienna. The UNDP also played a leading role in the
preparation and proclamation of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR) on
1 November 1918. The party's main board and press were invariably located on the
Rynok square 10 in Lviv. The only exception was the period of Russian
occupation in 1914-1915.
The University,
founded in 1784 by Joseph II on the basis of the abolished Jesuit academy, was
to become the main source of professional officials for the capital of the
Galician province. Stress was laid not on research, but chiefly on the training
of managers. After numerous changes, in particular, the demotion of the
institution status to that of a lyceum, in 1817 the university was refounded by
Emperor Francis II. The institution existed in this condition till the end of
1918.
