House of the Halychyna Governorate or Government House (today - building of the Lviv Regional Council and Lviv Regional State Administration) is an architectural monument of national significance in
Lviv
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(
Ukraine
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). The building is an example of the
Neo-Renaissance
Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range ...
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria,, ; pl, Królestwo Galicji i Lodomerii, ; uk, Королівство Галичини та Володимирії, Korolivstvo Halychyny ta Volodymyrii; la, Rēgnum Galiciae et Lodomeriae also known as ...
The building is located beyond the eastern border of the medieval city and occupies a corner area, with its facade facing Vynnychenka Street on the west, and Prosvita Street - on the north. The Governor's Palace adjoins the building on the southern side. On the northern side, behind Prosvita Street, there is the Barefoot Carmelite Church. There is a small square with a monument to
Vyacheslav Chornovil
Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil ( uk, В'ячесла́в Макси́мович Чорнові́л; 24 December 1937 – 25 March 1999) was a Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident. As a prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, ...
(Сhairman of the Lviv Regional Council in the early 1990s) in front of the house. Address: 18 Vynnychenka Street (in the Austro-Hungarian period - Governor's Valley Street, in the interwar period - Charnetsky Street, during the Nazi occupation - District Strasse, under the Soviets - Soviet Street).
The façade
First World War
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, it housed the headquarters of the 8th Russian Army. In the interwar period, the Polish Voivodship Administration was located here, during the Nazi occupation - administration of the Governor of the
SS Division Galicia that was attended by representatives of the authorities, the National Socialist Party, the German army, former soldiers of the
Ukrainian Galician Army
Ukrainian Galician Army ( uk, Українська Галицька Армія, translit=Ukrayins’ka Halyts’ka Armiya, UHA), was the Ukrainian military of the West Ukrainian National Republic during and after the Polish-Ukrainian War. It w ...
, the press; well-known Ukrainian statesmen
Viktor Kurmanovych
Viktor Kurmanovych ( uk, Віктор Йосипович Курманович; 26 November 1876, Velyka Vilshanytsia near Zolochiv, Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungary – 18 October 1945, Odessa, Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian politician
and
Volodymyr Kubiyovych Volodymyr ( uk, Володи́мир, Volodýmyr, , orv, Володимѣръ) is a Ukrainian given name of Old East Slavic origin. The related Ancient Slavic, such as Czech, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, etc. form of the name is Володимѣръ ...
were present too.
During the Soviet period, Communist administration decided to retain the building's former function by assigning it to a local
obkom
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The governing body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was the Party Congress, which initially met annually but whose ...
.
Currently, the administrative building at 18 Vynnychenka Street houses divisions of the executive staff of the Lviv Regional Council, departments and divisions of the Lviv Regional State Administration, and a representative office of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
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.
Architecture
The house is rectangular in plan, with a closed courtyard, has four storeys and ends with a mansard roof. The facades are rusted and symmetrical, divided vertically by small protrusions, horizontally - by strips of cornices. On the main façade, the central axis is accentuated by a second-floor balcony, which stands on four columns flanking the main entrance.
The house has an office-corridor planning system. The complex of interiors is dominated by the grand staircase (architect Sylwester Hawryszkiewicz, sculptor
Leonard Marconi
Leonard Marconi (Warsaw, 6 October 1835 – 1 April 1899, Lviv) was a Polish and Austro-Hungarian architect and sculptor. He was active chiefly at Warsaw, then in Galicia, notably at Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine).
Life
Leonard Marconi was born on 6 ...
).
Nowadays the building is equipped with a special wheelchair lift.