https://lia4.lvivcenter.org/en/themes/sykhiv/Sykhiv: from Microraion to Macrohistory
Sykhiv: from Microraion to Macrohistory
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The theme aims to produce a socio-cultural, etnographic study of a Lviv city suburb, Sykhivskyi masyv. It focuses on its emergence and its life, providing a kind of "thick description" of its
functioning, uses and symbolic meanings.
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The aim of this theme is to produce a socio-cultural,
ethnographic study that complements the historical dimension of the
Lviv Interactive Project. The Sykhiv
theme focuses on the emergence and life of a city suburb,
Sykhivskyy masyv, providing a kind of "thick description" of its
functioning, uses and symbolic meanings.
In relation to Lviv, Sykhiv emerges as the "representative
Other" in full contrast to the historical center and the celebrated past
of the city. With its visible layers of historical change, the suburb
embodies the recent past. Historical urban transformations mark its
landscape crudely: Sykhiv, the former Polish village was almost fully
demolished by socialist industrialization in the 1960s yet some parts of
the village are still visible today. The superimposed district
exemplifies the microraion, the basic spatial unit of the socialist city
under Soviet urbanism. However, the new Sykhiv remained an unfinished
urban project, a failed attempt to create the Soviet urban ideal.
Instead, it was appropriated and transformed in the early 1990s by its
own residents and became a field of contestation and "privatization".
Today Sykhiv is a dynamic neighborhood in the expanding city and its
case illustrates well the strange trajectories of urban development in
this region.
This ethnographic study of Sykhiv focuses on the multiple
interactions between people and urban spaces that are revealed through
everyday practices and personal experiences of the city. The research
methods involve ethnographic and survey research aimed at collecting
contextual and macro-structural data (such as demographic,
socio-economic, linguistic, ethnic, health, and migration information);
in-depth interviews; narrative descriptions of events, archival research
into maps and graphic representations, including urbanization and
construction plans; visual analysis of photographs and films; and the
analysis of diaries and personal travel narratives.
Former Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Queen of Poland was constructed in 1910 in a shape of a small chapel, funded by Sykhiv Roman Catholic parishioners. In 1927, Sykhiv became a separate parish to include also the villages of Vul'ka Sykhivska (Wulka sychowska) and Pasiky Zubrytski (Pasieki Zubrzyckie). In 1936-42, the reconstruction and the enlargement of the church were undertaken, following the design by architect Andrzej Frydecki. After World War II, the church was briefly taken over by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish. In 1946-1990, the building was used by the Orthodox Church, and in 1990 it was taken by the Greek Catholic Church. Today (2008) this is the Greek Catholic St. Michael the Archangel Church.
Church of the Nativity of the Most Blessed Mother of God (Rizdva Presvyatoyi Bohorodytsi) is a Greek Catholic parish church. The site, initially in the ownership of Lviv Municipality, was given to the Greek Catholic Church in 1990, and was blessed on 17 April 1990 by Bishop Filimon Kurchaba. The construction works started in 1995. In June 2001 during the Pope John Paul II's visit to Lviv the meeting with the Catholic Youth was organised in front of the church. In commemoration of the papal visit the parish constructed a monument to the pope and a memorial plaque.
The church was built between 1991-1993 through the efforts of the Orthodox community led by two priests, Fr. Volodymyr Tsiopka and Fr. Volodymyr Kuzio, former parish priests of St. Michael Church in Sykhiv. Following a split in the community, the church remained with Fr. Kuzio and his parishioners, and now (2008) belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev Patriarchate.
The foundation ceremony for the John Paul II Park in Sykhiv took place on 28 September 2007. The program of the ceremony consisted of religious rites around the Nativity Church and the speeches of local political leaders, some of whom tried to link the visit of the Pope to Sukhiv and the future parliamentary elections in Ukraine. Possibly in connection with the park's foundation, Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko visited the Nativity Church, accompanied by the head of the Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal Liubomyr Huzar.
Pentecost church(Tserkva Zislannia Sviatoho Dukha) was founded on the initiative of the local community, mostly inhabitants of the surrounding streets: Trylovskoho and Antonycha Streets. In 1996 the founding stone of the church was blessed, but the actual construction was delayed because of financial reasons. The foundation was laid in September 2006 and the construction continued afterwards at slow pace because it was carried mostly through the voluntary work of its parishioners: one day every three month they came to work on the church construction. At the present (2008), the church functions temporarily in the nearby chapel, which is an improvised construction (a former industrial hangar).
The wooden Holy Trinity Church(Presviatoji Trijtsi) was built in the 17th century in the village of Sykhiv (1683). The 1850 cadaster mentions both the church, a small bell tower and a nearby cemetery. The church was renovated in 1875, and fundamentally restored in 1932-1933, when the new stone foundation was put in place. The parish priest Andriy Ishchak (1887-1941), later beatified by the Pope Joph Paul II, was murdered near the church by the Soviet soldiers. He is buried in the church cemetery. In 1969 a restoration by Bohdan Kendzielski was undertaken. The church functioned until 1960s, when it was turned into a museum. The local Sykhiv inhabitants opened it again in 1990 as a Greek Catholic church, and in 1994 the interior paintings were restored.
The
children’s polyclinic building (its planned capacity was 480 visits
per shift) is situated in the mass housing district of Sykhiv, on
Chervonoi Kalyny Boulevard. Its construction was started in 1981 and
was carried out under the standard design adapted by the engineers of
the engineering and design workshop number 1. The chief architect of
the project was S. N. Nivin; the group manager was Y. A. Minkova. The
building belongs to the modernist style.
The Nativity of the Holy Virgin Church is located in the center of the biggest
socialistic residential district of Lviv – Sykhiv – and constitutes the main
iconic building forming its image. The building was constructed in 1995-2001 according to the design of Radoslav
Zuk, a Canadian architect of Ukrainian origin. Today it is one of the most
distinguished religious buildings constructed in Ukraine after it gained its
independence. The design reflects the Byzantine tradition interpreted
in a modern way.
The O.
Dovzhenko Cinema is located in the common public center of the
residential district of Sykhiv. It was built in 1987 according to an
individual project based on the typical functional design. The
project was drawn up by a group of authors that consisted of
architects Anatoliy Vashchak, Vasyl Kamenshchyk, Yevheniya Minkova
and constructors M. Bachynskyi and Y. Khrobak. Considering its style
features, the building belongs to the modernist style.
The building
of the Zubra-Center public and shopping center is situated in the
third town planning complex of the residential district of Sykhiv,
the microdistrict number 22, where one of Sykhiv’s main arterial
streets, Chervonoi Kalyny Boulevard, comes to an end. The building
was constructed in 1994 according to an individual project drawn up
by a group of architects (Vasyl Kamenshchyk, Anatoliy Vashchak,
Yevheniya Minkova), and also partly by V. B. Piashko, V. P. Marieva.
Considering its style features, the building belongs to the late
modernist style.
The 15-storied residential building situated on Chukarina street 1b is a
part of a post-socialist urban planning formation, the mass housing district of
Sykhiv in Lviv. The building is constructed under an individual project applied
repeatedly. A number of 15-storied buildings were constructed at Sykhiv on the
basis of this project with some modifications. Their construction was started
in the mid-1980s. These distinct buildings are situated on the main visual axes
of the district and mark out its important functional junctions. Their
stylistic features allow us to attribute them to Modernism. The individual
project was developed by the Lviv engineering project workshop number 1; the
chief architect of the project was Oleksandr Baziuk.
The building situated on M. Drahana street 12, 14, 16 is a typical panel
residential building of the microdistrict no. 18 in the socialist mass housing
district of Sykhiv in Lviv. Formally, it consists of three parts; each of the
parts has its own separate number. The building belongs to the second turn of
the residential district construction, namely, to its southern part, Sykhiv-II.
The construction of this
part started in 1986. The building is constructed in accordance with the
principles of industrial typology and, stylistically, belongs to the Modernism.
