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Lychakiv Cemetery (; ), officially State History and Culture Museum-Reserve "Lychakiv Cemetery" (), is a historic cemetery in
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, Ukraine.


History

Since its creation in 1787 as Łyczakowski Cemetery, it has been the main necropolis of the city's ( at the time named Lemberg)
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es. Initially the cemetery was located on several hills in the borough of Lychakiv, following the imperial
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(the city was located in Austria-Hungary at the time) edict ordering that all cemeteries be moved outside of the city limits. The original project was prepared by , the head of the
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. In mid-1850s the cemetery was expanded significantly by Tytus Tchórzewski, who created the present network of alleys and round-abouts. It then became the main city cemetery, and soon most other cemeteries were closed. The two largest that remained were the Yanivskiy Cemetery (), with many working class graves and the adjacent New
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Cemetery. Lychakivskiy Cemetery was used by all Christian sects in the city: in addition to
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, it also included Eastern Rite Catholics,
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and Orthodox. After
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the city ( at the time named Lwów) was annexed (from the
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) by the
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to the
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. The majority of the surviving pre-war inhabitants of the city were expelled to the former German areas awarded to Poland after the Yalta Conference. This started a period of devastation of historical monuments located at the cemetery. Up to 1971 many of the sculptures were destroyed. However, in 1975 the cemetery was declared a historical monument and the degradation ended. Since the late 1980s, the cemetery has seen constant rebuilding and refurbishment and continues to be one of the principal tourist attractions of
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. In late 2006 the city administration announced plans to transfer the tombs of
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(UPA) to a new area of the cemetery dedicated to the Ukrainian national liberation struggle.


Cemetery sections


Ukrainian National Army Memorial

The Ukrainian National Army Memorial (Number 8 on the plan) is devoted to the
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soldiers buried in the cemetery, including soldiers of the SS Division "Galicia". It was established due to the efforts of Ukrainian national-patriotic organizations and the Ukrainian emigrant veterans' movement. It was established with the special effort of , a division veteran, Ukrainian emigrant veterans' movement social activist and
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(National Scout Organization of Ukraine) veteran who took an active part in the creation of memorials to the SS Division Galicia on the mountain and near the village of .


Field of Mars

On the north side of the Cemetery is situated ''Field of Mars'' (No. 1 on the plan), a war memorial built in 1974. This war memorial originally the graves of 3,800 Soviet soldiers who died in the battles against the Nazi occupiers during World War II) (named ''
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) and against units of
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(UPA) ( acting up to the mid-1950s). On the wall of the memorial was written a verse: Poetic writing in honor of the Soviet soldiers was eliminated at the direction of urban authorities in 1990s.Lemko I..'' Pogulyanka with Outskirts // «Lviv newspaper» – 13 Lipnya 2007.
/ref> The Field of Mars has been used as a burial site for Ukrainians soldiers who died during the
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due to the lack of space at the Ukrainian National Army Memorial within the walls of the Lychakiv Cemetery, according to the head of the
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's Military Chaplaincy Center. The
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announced on May 20, 2022 that it would hold an architectural contest in order to select the design for a war memorial at the site, which has been described as part of the decommunization process in Ukraine. On August 19, 2022, Lviv authorities approved the exhumation of the remains of Soviet soldiers from the location. The exhumation proceedings uncovered remains dating back to the
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and belonging to soldiers of the
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armies, which are set to be moved into a dedicated section within the planned memorial, as well as World War II and
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Soviet burials, which will be transferred to the Holoskiv Cemetery in Lviv.


Lwów Defenders' Cemetery

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and their allies who died in Lviv during the hostilities of the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918−1919) and Polish-Soviet War (1919−1921). The complex is a part of the city's historic Lychakiv Cemetery. There are about 3000 graves in that part of the cemetery; some from the Lwów Eaglets young
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volunteers, after whom that part of the cemetery is named. It was one of the most famous
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. Lviv was a city in interwar Poland and at the time named Lwów. In 1925, the ashes of one of the unknown defenders of Lwów were transferred to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw. After that was built the «Polish mausoleum» (Lwów Eaglets Memorial). After World War II the cemetery of Lwów Eaglets was completely destroyed and turned into a truck depot and at one time Eaglets Cemetery was damaged with a bulldozer.Symbolic Reconciliation
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Due to the history of complex Polish-Ukrainian relations, the Polish Eaglets Cemetery was neglected because the Ukrainian authorities did not want to rebuild this monument of young Polish soldiers defending the city in 1920s. Though in the late 1980s, workers of a Polish company which were working in
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started to redecorate and rebuild the necropolis from its ruins (which was not always legal according to Ukrainian law). Although the Ukrainian authorities tried to stop the works several times, the Poles managed to renovate this important memorial of great Lvovians. Since 1999 there is also a monument to the
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located just outside the Polish mausoleum. Since the
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, the cemetery had been rebuilt and refurbished. It was finally reopened on 24 June 2005.


1863 January rebels' hill

In the back part of the cemetery (No. 6 on the plan) on a separate field indicated original steel crosses, located «1863 rebels' hill». Buried here are members Polish January Uprising of 1863, of which a member of the Polish
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, the famous zoologist
Benedykt Dybowski Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski (12 May 183331 January 1930) was a Polish naturalist and physician. Life Benedykt Dybowski was born in Adamaryni, within the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire to Polish nobility. He was the brother of naturalis ...
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Vitebsk land, resting under the central monument rebels , etc.


Other veterans' sections

There are also numerous parts of the cemetery in which veterans of most wars of 19th and 20th centuries are buried, including the quarters of veterans of: *
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(1830−1831) *
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* Polish Defensive War (1939) * Victims of the
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(1941) *
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Notable people


Poles

Since the city for centuries used to be a centre of Polish culture, there are numerous famous Poles buried there. Among them are: * Roman Abraham, general *
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, mathematician * Wladyslaw Belza, writer * Piotr Chmielowski, philosopher *
Benedykt Dybowski Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski (12 May 183331 January 1930) was a Polish naturalist and physician. Life Benedykt Dybowski was born in Adamaryni, within the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire to Polish nobility. He was the brother of naturalis ...
, soldier, adventurer, ethnologist and biologist * Mieczysław Garsztka, aviator *
Mieczysław Gębarowicz Mieczysław Jan Gębarowicz (17 December 189318 February 1984) was a Polish art historian, soldier, dissident, museum director and custodian of cultural heritage. He studied history and the history of art at Lwów University During the 1940s ...
, historian * Tadeusz Rozwadowski, Polish military leader and one of the founders of modern Poland * Franciszek Ksawery Godebski, historian * Zygmunt Gorgolewski, architect, designer of the
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*
Seweryn Goszczyński Seweryn Goszczyński (4 November 1801, Illintsi – 25 February 1876, Lviv) was a Polish Romantic prose writer and poet. Life He was born on 4 November 1801 in Ilińce, Russian Empire and hailed from a Polish noble family Nobility is a so ...
, poet *
Artur Grottger Artur Grottger (11 November 1837 – 13 December 1867) was a Polish Romantic painter and graphic artist, one of the most prominent artists of the mid 19th century under the partitions of Poland, despite a life cut short by incurable illness. B ...
, artist * , founder of the first theatre in Lwów *
Wojciech Kętrzyński Wojciech Kętrzyński (born Adalbert von Winkler; 11 July 1838 – 15 January 1918), was a Polish historian and the director of the Ossolineum Library in Lemberg, then the capital of Galicia, Austrian Empire. He focused on Polish history at a ...
, historian and name-sake of the city of
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*
Maria Konopnicka Maria Konopnicka (; ; 23 May 1842 – 8 October 1910) was a Polish people, Polish poet, novelist, children's writer, translator, journalist, critic and activist for women's rights and for Polish independence. She used pseudonyms, including ''Jan ...
, writer *
Juliusz Konstanty Ordon Konstanty Juliusz Ordon (often referred to as Konstanty Julian Ordon; born in Warsaw, 16 October 1810, died in Florence, 4 May 1887) was a participant in the Polish November Uprising in 1830–1831. Biography Ordon distinguished himself as a ...
, officer * Ludwik Rydygier, surgeon * Władysław Sadłowski, architect * Kazimierz Sichulski, painter *
Karol Szajnocha Karol Szajnocha (20 November 1818 – 10 January 1868) was a Polish writer, historian, and independence activist. Self-taught, he would nonetheless become a notable Polish historian of the partitions of Poland, partitions period. Biography Karol ...
, historian * Julian Zachariewicz, architect *
Gabriela Zapolska Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 25 ...
, novelist and playwright


Ukrainians

Among the notable Ukrainians buried there are: *
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, academician, politician. * Vasyl Barvinsky, impressionist composer * Yevheniya Barvinska, pianist, choral conductor, singer * Roman Bezpalkiv, Ukrainian painter * Taras Bobanych, Ukrainian lawyer and soldier *
Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (, ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first d ...
, poet and reformer of the
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*
Yaroslav Halan Yaroslav Oleksandrovych Halan (, party nickname ''Comrade Yaga''; 27 July 1902 – 24 October 1949) was a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukrainian writer, playwright, and publicist. A member of the Communist Party of Western Ukra ...
, playwright and publicist * Jacques Hnizdovsky, painter, printmaker, sculptor, bookplate designer and illustrator of numerous books, both in Ukrainian and English *
Volodymyr Ivasyuk Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasiuk (, 4 March 1949 – 24–27 April 1979) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song "Chervona Ruta (song), Chervona Ruta" popularized by Sofia ...
, composer * , theologian *
Solomiya Krushelnytska Solomiya KrushelnytskaHer name is sometimes spelt as Solomiya Ambrosiyivna Krushelnytska, Salomea Krusceniski, Krushel'nytska or Kruszelnicka. (; – November 16, 1952) was a Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano, considered to be one of the bright ...
, soprano opera star *
Lesya Kryvytska Lesya Kryvytska, née Oleksandra Serhiivna Yelyseyeva (; 16 January 1899 – 7 November 1983) was a Soviet and Ukrainian stage actress and pedagogue. People's Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1954). Early life and educat ...
, actress * Stanyslav Lyudkevych, composer *
Oleksander Ohonovsky Oleksander Ohonovsky (; March 17, 1848 – February 10, 1891) was a lawyer, legal scholar, and civic leader in Austria-Hungary. Oleksander Ohonovsky was born in Bukachivtsi, Rohatyn county, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. After graduating from ...
, lawyer, civic leader * Anthony Petrushevych, historian and philologist. *
Markiyan Shashkevych Markiian Semenovych Shashkevych (; November 6, 1811 in Pidlyssia, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria – June 7, 1843 in Novosilky, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and th ...
, poet * Yurii Shukhevych, political prisoner and politician * Oleksandr Tysowskyj (alternately Alexander Tysovsky), founder of Ukrainian Scouting *
Anatole Vakhnianyn Anatole Vakhnianyn (; 19 September 184111 February 1908), was a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer, political and cultural figure, teacher, and journalist. Biography Family Vakhnianyn was born in Sieniawa, Przeworsk County, today a ...
, composer and leading cultural figure * Iryna Vilde (Polotniuk), Ukrainian writer * Hryhorii Chubai, Ukrainian poet, father of Taras Chubai * , hero of Ukraine, academician, director of the Lviv National Gallery * , Chief Scout of Plast from 1972 to 1991 * Taras Levkiv, Ukrainian artist who specialized in ceramics *
Myroslav Skoryk Myroslav Mykhailovych Skoryk (; 13 July 1938 – 1 June 2020) was a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains stylistic traits from Ukrainian folk music traditions. Skoryk wa ...
, Ukrainian composer


Others

* Edmund Pike Graves, pilot and member of the Kościuszko Squadron


Gallery

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References


External links


Detailed history of the Cemetery

Pictures of the Cemetery. 288 photo. V.Yashchuk




(captions in Polish)

* Lychakivskiy Cemetery o
city plan: F-9
Inter-wa
cemetery list, p. 23
''Plan Lwowa,'' W. Horbay, 1938 (in Polish; reprinted
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, 1986).
Review of Cemetery as tourist attraction


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