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Lviv
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Bondi Vesolovsky and Yabtso Jazz: swinging Lviv in the 1920s-30s
Of course, at that time in Polish-ruled Western Ukraine, the Lviv night-club scene was dominated by Polish jazz…
Take a walk at the Lviv Christmas Fair| Photos
The Lviv Christmas Fair (Yarmarok) gathers each year more than 100 craftsmen in 100 wooden shops at two…
Eva.Stories: real-life Holocaust diary on Instagram that was shot by a Ukrainian company in Lviv
What if a girl had an Instagram account during the Holocaust? The account Eva.Stories on the popular social…
Hockey Day in Lviv: Canadian Armed Forces vs Galician Lions
The Ukrainian club included younger members and coaches of children’s teams. The Canadian team had one female member,…
100 years ago: the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire & birth of the West Ukrainian National Republic
– What prompted Emperor Karl I to issue a manifesto proclaiming decentralization and the creation of a confederation?…
Craftsman from Lviv makes hurdy-gurdies
Hordiy Starukh was only 3 years old when his mother took him to a concert where he heard…
Indonesian ambassador to establish Indonesia-Lviv cultural cooperations
Indonesian Ambassador to Ukraine Prof. Dr. Yuddy Chrisnandi is currently boosting Indonesian culture in Ukraine. In March, he visited Lviv. The goal was to explore any potential of sister…
A student from Ukraine’s Donbas who lived through war
Three years after the beginning of the de facto war in Donbas, Ukrainians are starting to fix the fundamental problems…
Lviv: the city with (possibly) the most lions in the world | Photos
The west-Ukrainian city of Lviv could very well be a world record-setter by the number of lions on…
Innovative library of Ukrainian Catholic University becomes Lviv’s new hotspot
The five-story building includes a multifunctional library, offices, exhibition centers, and conference halls. Its creators hope it will…
IKEA eyeing production and retail presence in Ukraine
Negotiations are taking place on the possible location of IKEA production units in the Lviv Oblast in Ukraine,…
Blindness is not a sentence. How a Ukrainian programmer codes on par with sighted colleagues
Denys Reveha loved programming from school, mastered his first computer when he was ten, and created his first…
Newly opened Lviv museum of totalitarian regimes welcomes visitors and researchers from abroad
The “Territory of Terror” memorial museum in the western-Ukrainian city of Lviv is located in a place that…
From “Russian world” supporter to Ukrainian patriot: a story of a Donbas girl’s worldview transformation
Exchange programs for citizens from different regions of Ukraine are a working solution for reconciliation. Three years after the…
Major European low-cost airlines to revolutionize Ukrainian air passenger market
Opposing the monopolist Ukraine International Airlines, founded as a state company in 1992, was privatized in 2011. Now…
Johann Georg Pinsel: the Michelangelo from Lviv
Johann Georg Pinsel was a Baroque-Rococo sculptor of German or Czech origin who lived and worked in Lviv,…
Donbas war refugee turns shrapnel into works of art to raise funds for Ukrainian army
East and West are united in the Ivaniv family. They have also joined their efforts against the occupation.…
Ballet dancers pose to save soldiers’ lives in Ukraine
The Ballerina Project was founded more than 10 years ago by a New York-based photographer Dane Shitagi. The…
Crimean Tatars find new home in traditional Lviv
After Russia occupied Ukraine’s peninsula of Crimea on March 2014, thousands of Crimean Tatars were forced to leave their…
Church of Saints Olha and Yelyzaveta in Lviv : a royal tribute to love…and more
The Church of Saints Olha and Yelyzaveta has long been one of the most beautiful and elegant symbols…