Lychakiv Cemetery

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Lychakiv Cemetery
Ukrainian: Личаківський цвинтар
Polish: Cmentarz Łyczakowski
One of the cemetery alleys, 2007.
Map
Details
Established1787
Location
Lviv
CountryUkraine
Coordinates49°49′59″N 24°03′22″E / 49.833°N 24.056°E / 49.833; 24.056
TypePublic (restricted)
Size40 ha
No. of gravesmore than 300,000

Lychakiv Cemetery (Ukrainian: Личаківський цвинтар, romanized: Lychakivs’kyi tsvyntar; Polish: Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie), officially State History and Culture Museum-Preserve "Lychakiv Cemetery" (Ukrainian: Державний історико-культурний музей-заповідник «Лича́ківський цви́нтар»), is a historic cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine.

History

Grave of Józefina Markowska by Julian Markowski [uk]

Since its creation in 1787 as Łyczakowski Cemetery, it has been the main necropolis of the city's (

Lviv University botanical garden
.

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 (

Protestants and Orthodox
.

After World War II the city (at the time named Lwów[1]) was annexed (from the Second Polish Republic[1]) by the Soviet Union to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. 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 Lviv.

In late 2006 the city administration announced plans to transfer the tombs of

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) / Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) to a new area of the cemetery dedicated to the Ukrainian national liberation struggle.[2]

Cemetery sections

Lychakiv Cemetery plan
Plan legend:
1 — Field of Mars
2 — NKVD victims' graves (1941 г.)
3 — Outstanding Poles Pantheon
4 — The eldest graves
5 — Main gates
6 — 1863 January rebels' quarter
7 — 1830−1831 November rebels' quarter
8 — Ukrainian National Army Memorial
9 — Lwów Defenders' Cemetery (Cemetery of Lwów Eaglets)
Members of the National Scout Organization of Ukraine «Plast» near the Monument to the SS-Division «Galicia», 2008.

Ukrainian National Army Memorial

The Ukrainian National Army Memorial (Number 8 on the plan) is devoted to 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 Ferentsevich Yuri [uk], a division veteran, Ukrainian emigrant veterans' movement social activist and Plast (National Scout Organization of Ukraine) veteran who took an active part in the creation of memorials to the SS Division Galicia on the mountain Zhbyr [uk] and near the village of Chervone [uk].[3]

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 contains the graves of 3,800 Soviet soldiers who died in the battles against the Nazi occupiers during

Soviet ideology[4]) and against units of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) (acting up to the mid-1950s). On the wall of the memorial was written a verse:

At the middle of the planet
in the storm clouds thunder
deads are watching the sky
believing in the wisdom of livings

Poetic writing in honor of the Soviet soldiers was eliminated at the direction of urban authorities in 1990s.[5]

Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów
Tombs of Stefan Stec, Stefan Bastyr and Władysław Toruń

Lwów Defenders' Cemetery

Main article: Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów

The Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (Cemetery of Eaglets,

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 militia volunteers, after whom that part of the cemetery is named. It was one of the most famous necropolises of the interwar Poland. Lviv was a city in interwar Poland and at the time named Lwów.[1]

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.[6]

Due to the history of complex

Khmelnytskyi
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 Sich Riflemen located just outside the Polish mausoleum.

Since the

fall of communism
, 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 Central National Committee Bronisław Szwarce, the famous zoologist Benedykt Dybowski, cornet Vitebsk land, resting under the central monument rebels Shimon Vizunas Shidlovsky [pl], 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:

Notable people

Tomb of Maria Konopnicka. Sculpture by Luna Drexlerówna.
Tomb of the poet Ivan Franko.
Lychakiv Cemetery (2011)

Poles

Since the city for centuries used to be a centre of Polish culture, there are numerous famous Poles buried there. Among them are:

Ukrainians

Among the notable Ukrainians buried there are:

Others

  • Kościuszko Squadron

Gallery

  • Lychakiv Cemetery – main gate (c.a. 1900)
    Lychakiv Cemetery – main gate (c.a. 1900)
  • Mausoleum of Kiselka family by Filip Pokutyński [pl]
    Mausoleum of Kiselka family by Filip Pokutyński [pl]
  • Lychakiv Cemetery (2018)
    Lychakiv Cemetery (2018)

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9781138348875
  2. ^ NKVD victims to be buried in Lviv on November 7 // «ForUm» (www.for-ua.com) 25 October 2006. Archived 1 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Дяків М. Відійшов на Вічну Ватру пластун сеньйор керівництва Юрій Ференцевич з куреня «Ватага Бурлаків» // «Пластовий портал» (www.plast.org.ua) 15.02.2011.(in Ukrainian) Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ISBN 978-023118515-8
    .
  5. ^ Lemko I.. Pogulyanka with Outskirts // «Lviv newspaper» – 13 Lipnya 2007.(in Ukrainian)
  6. Warsaw Voice
    . Last accessed on 22 March 2006.

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