66 Facts About Lviv

Lviv emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia in the 14th century, superseding Halych, Chelm, Belz and Przemysl.

Lviv is the home of many cultural institutions, including a philharmonic orchestra and the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

Lviv's large coat of arms is a shield with the coat of arms of the city, crowned with a silver city crown with three edges, held by a lion and an ancient warrior.

Lviv's flag is a blue square banner with the city emblem image and yellow and blue triangles at the edges.

Lviv's climate is humid continental with cold winters and warm summers.

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Archaeologists have demonstrated that the Lviv area was settled by the fifth century, with the gord at Chernecha Hora-Voznesensk Street in Lychakivskyi District attributed to White Croats.

The city of Lviv was founded in 1250 by King Daniel of Galicia in the Principality of Halych of Kingdom of Ruthenia and named in honour of his son Lev as Lvihorod which is consistent with names of other Ukrainian cities, such as Myrhorod, Sharhorod, Novhorod, Bilhorod, Horodyshche, and Horodok.

Region and the region adjacent to Lviv, Leopold, Poland, was a destination of 50,000 Armenians fleeing from the Saljuq and Mongol invasions of Armenia.

Lviv swore to protect the Kingdom's folk from any impositions and unjust bondage.

Galicia was subject to the Austrian part of the Dual Monarchy, but the Galician Sejm and provincial administration, both established in Lviv, had extensive privileges and prerogatives, especially in education, culture, and local affairs.

Furthermore, Lviv was the centre of a number of Polish independence organisations.

Lviv was a major centre of Jewish culture, in particular as a centre of the Yiddish language, and was the home of the world's first Yiddish-language daily newspaper, the Lemberger Togblat, established in 1904.

Poles who stayed in Lviv have formed the organisation the Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land.

The prevalence of the Ukrainian-speaking population has led to the fact that under the conditions of Soviet Russification, Lviv became a major centre of the dissident movement in Ukraine and played a key role in Ukraine's independence in 1991.

On 17 September 1989 Lviv saw the largest rally in support of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union, gathering some 100,000 participants.

Citizens of Lviv strongly supported Viktor Yushchenko during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election and played a key role in the Orange Revolution.

Lviv remains today one of the main centres of Ukrainian culture and the origin of much of the nation's political class.

In 2019 citizens of Lviv supported Petro Poroshenko during the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.

Until 18 July 2020, Lviv was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the center of Lviv Municipality.

The area of Lviv Municipality was merged into the newly established Lviv Raion.

Lviv became a safe haven for the Ukrainians fleeing other parts of the country affected by the invasion, their number exceeding 200,000 as of 18 March 2022.

Lviv was targeted during the 10 October 2022 missile strikes on Ukraine, resulting in a city-wide blackout.

Lviv is divided into six raions, each with its own administrative bodies:.

Lviv had two separate Jewish quarters, one within the city walls and one outside on the outskirts of the city.

Sholem Aleichem Jewish Culture Society in Lviv initiated the construction of a monument to the victims of the ghetto in 1988.

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Lviv is the most important business centre of Western Ukraine.

Lviv is one of the largest cities in Ukraine and is growing rapidly.

Lviv has 218 large industrial enterprises, more than 40 commercial banks, 4 exchanges, 13 investment companies, 80 insurance and 24 leasing companies, 77 audit firms and almost 9,000 small ventures.

Innovative design ideas of Lviv engineers have become the world standard in bus manufacturing.

Lviv is a major business center between Warsaw and Kyiv.

Also during 2016 the Global Service Center VimpelCom in Lviv was launched, which serves finance, procurement and HR operations in eight foreign branches of this company.

Some IT companies in Lviv offer outsourcing software services to international corporations rather than developing their software product.

Criterion II: In its urban fabric and its architecture, Lviv is an outstanding example of the fusion of the architectural and artistic traditions of central and eastern Europe with those of Italy and Germany.

Criterion V: The political and commercial role of Lviv attracted to it a number of ethnic groups with different cultural and religious traditions, who established separate yet interdependent communities within the city, evidence for which is still discernible in the modern town's landscape.

In recent centuries Lviv was spared some of the invasions and wars that destroyed other Ukrainian cities.

Works written in Lviv contributed to Austrian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, and Polish literature, with a multitude of translations.

Lviv is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv, the centre of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine and until 21 August 2005 was the centre of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Until 2005, Lviv was the only city with two Catholic Cardinals: Lubomyr Husar and Marian Jaworski.

Lviv historically had a large and active Jewish community and until 1941 at least 45 synagogues and prayer houses existed.

Today Lviv is a city of fresh ideas and unusual characters.

Lviv has one of the most prominent music academies and music colleges in Ukraine, the Lviv Conservatory, and a factory for stringed musical instruments.

Lviv has been the home of numerous composers, such as Mozart's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Stanislav Liudkevych, Wojciech Kilar and Mykola Kolessa.

Lviv Philharmonic is a major cultural centre with a long history and traditions that complement Ukraine's entire culture.

Chamber Orchestra "Lviv virtuosos" was organised by the best Lviv musicians in 1994.

Lviv is the hometown of the Vocal formation "Pikkardiyska Tertsiya" and Eurovision Song Contest 2004 winner Ruslana who has since become well known in Europe and the rest of the world.

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Lviv Organ Hall is a place where classical music and art meet together.

Lviv is the hometown of one of the most successful and popular Ukrainian rock bands, Okean Elzy.

Lviv University is one of the oldest in Central Europe and was founded as a Society of Jesus school in 1608.

In 1873 Lviv has founded Shevchenko Scientific Society from the beginning it attracted the financial and intellectual support of writers and patrons of Ukrainian background.

Lviv was the home of the Scottish Cafe, where in the 1930s and the early 1940s, Polish mathematicians from the Lwow School of Mathematics met and spent their afternoons discussing mathematical problems.

Ever since the early 1990s, Lviv has been the spiritual home of the post-independence Ukrainian-language publishing industry.

Lviv is the centre of promotion of the Ukrainian Latin alphabet.

Lviv is home to one of the oldest Polish-language newspapers "Gazeta Lwowska" which was first published in 1811 and still exists in a bi-weekly form.

Lviv was an important centre for sport in Central Europe and is regarded as the birthplace of Polish football.

Lviv now has several major professional football clubs and some smaller clubs.

FC Karpaty Lviv, founded in 1963, has historically been the largest club in the city.

Sometimes citizens of Lviv assemble on the central street to watch and cheer during outdoor broadcasts of games.

Arena Lviv is a brand-new football stadium that was an official venue for Euro 2012 Championship games in Lviv.

Arena Lviv is the home ground of FC Lviv, and played host to Shakhtar Donetsk between 2014 and 2016 due to the ongoing war in Donbas.

Lviv was originally bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, but has withdrawn and will now most likely bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Lviv railway is often called the main gateway from Ukraine to Europe although buses are often a cheaper and more convenient way of entering the "Schengen" countries.

Lviv used to have a Railbus, which has since been replaced with other means of public transport.

Beginnings of aviation in Lviv reach back to 1884 when the Aeronautic Society was opened there.

In 2012, after renovation, Lviv Airport got a new official name Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport.

In Soviet times, the city of Lviv was the location where the software for the Lunokhod programme was developed.

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Lviv is known for ancient academic traditions, founded by the Assumption Brotherhood School and the Jesuit Collegium.