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Horodotska Street
Horodotska Street ( ukr. Вулиця Городоцька) is the longest street in the city of Lviv, Ukraine - its total length is over 8.5 km - it begins in the historic center, runs through the territory of Halych, Frankivsk and Zaliznychny districts and ends on the outskirts of the city. The street is of exceptional transport importance, as it is the main highway of Lviv in the western direction. The design of the street varies along its length, including a range of architectural styles from historicism, secession, constructivism, and modernist housing and industrial architecture. Several houses on Horodotska Street have the status of architectural monuments of local significance. Main buildings A number of important buildings are located on Horodotska Street. It begins with the Magnus shopping center, built 1912–1913, which is the first example of Lviv constructivism. The oldest Lviv prison, Brygidky, is also located on Horodotska Street, and is now the Lviv R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Language
Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state language of Ukraine in Eastern Europe. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard Ukrainian language is regulated by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU; particularly by its Institute for the Ukrainian Language), the Ukrainian language-information fund, and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often drawn to Russian, a prominent Slavic language, but there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian,Alexander M. Schenker. 1993. "Proto-Slavonic," ''The Slavonic Languages''. (Routledge). pp. 60–121. p. 60: " hedistinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances..."C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trolleybus In Lviv
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). ''Buses, Trolleys & Trams''. Paul Hamlyn Ltd. (UK). Republished 2004 with or 9780753709702.) is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded trolley poles. Overhead line#Parallel overhead lines, Two wires, and two trolley poles, are required to complete the electrical circuit. This differs from a tram, tram or streetcar, which normally uses the track as the return path, needing only one wire and one pole (or pantograph (transport), pantograph). They are also distinct from other kinds of Battery electric bus, electric buses, which usually rely on Automotive battery, batteries. Power is most commonly supplied as 600-volt direct current, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
