Zaliznýčnyj District ( uk, Залізни́чний райо́н) is an urban district of the city of

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

, named after the Lviv railway station (залізниця, ''zaliznytsia'' means ''railway''). This district covers western part of the city. It contains such neighborhoods as Bilohorshcha, Levandivka and Sknylivok.

Lviv International Airport Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport ( ua, Міжнародний аеропорт "Львів" імені Данила Галицького) is an international airport in Lviv, Ukraine. The airport is second largest and busiest airpor ...

is situated also in this district.

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Zaliznychny district together with Shevchenkivskyi is one of the two districts name of which have not been changed since

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

times. Apparently, it is name connected to the fact that the area is open around the railway - on its territory is the main railway station, as well as a number of small states. In addition, it is mostly in Levandivka, where the workers of the Lviv Railway traditionally live.Житлові будинки на Левандівці, Львів , База даних «Урбаністичні образи»
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