About Lviv Interactive

Lviv Interactive (LIA) is a web-accessible, interactive historical map of the city of Lviv. The map seeks to present the contemporary, living city in its historical dimension rather than reproducing a static picture of the past. This concept sets the project apart from a variety of existing history-centered internet sites also based on city maps. Historical relevance is considered from the perspective of how it helped shape today's city: its outward appearance, internal functioning and socio-cultural system.

Depending on the search criteria chosen, the interactive map provides different views of the city thus reflecting the complexity of the urban system. Each visitor or new search can provide different answers depending on the aspect of city in question: one may search through buildings, streets, monuments or all featured objects, or browse the map by region (see, for example, Center, Bohomoltsya Street, Citadel, Sykhiv), or follow the history of the city through our themes (see Sacred City, Lemberg Secession and Fin de siècle City). At the end, the search leads to a number of objects which are usually highlighted on the map with icons, and which by clicking display information on a particular architectural site, building, person etc.

The project is powered by Google© Maps, which provides maps for large parts of the globe and a variety of useful functions such as zooming, markers, layers, customization etc. Two versions of the map are simultaneously available: map proper and satellite picture. The map will react to the search enquiry by marking (with signs, color or both) the places in the city that have corresponding categories. By pointing on the marked spot, the viewer will find a popup or link to all the available information on the object.

The project draws on a great resource of information available in the files of the Center and the State Archive of Lviv Oblast (Derzhavnyi arkhiv L'vivs'koi oblasti, DALO) and the Galiciana project, directed by Ihor Zhuk. It is based on the use of primary archival material and expert reviewing.

Materials used in the Lviv Interactive Project are from the Center for Urban History Library.

We welcome everybody to add relevant information to our database. Please consult our Terms of Use and for further information please contact the committee currently in charge of the project under: [email protected].

Team

Taras Nazaruk
"Lviv Interactive" project leader
Roksolyana Holovata
Researcher, a post-graduate research student at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Faculty of Humanities) and Wroclaw University (Institute of the Art History).
Olha Zarechnyuk
Editor of the architectural part of the project, researches Lviv's architecture of late 19th and early 20th centuries, is an author of building's architectural descriptions.

Participants of the Lviv Interactive seminar

Nazar Kis
Historian, a research fellow at the Ivan Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the NAS of Ukraine, a Candidate of History.
Roman Melnyk
Historian, a post-graduate student at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv).
Ivanna Cherchovych
Сoordinator of Educational projects, researcher at the Center for Urban History. Member of the Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Women’s History.
Sofia Dyak
Historian, researcher (2007-2010), director of the Center and the head of the Foundation in Ukraine (2010-present)
Sofia Dyak
Historian, researcher (2007-2010), director of the Center and the head of the Foundation in Ukraine (2010-present)

Invited Authors

Ewa Bukowska-Marczak
Researcher, scholarly interests include the history of Lviv University and social history of Lviv during the interwar period.
Andriy Usach
Historian of the Holocaust, author of the virtual tour along the Holocaust sites in Lviv.
Roman Lekhnyuk
Yulia Bohdanova
Architect, author of the map about the interwar architecture in Lviv.
Tetiana Kazantseva
Architectural historian, author of architectural descriptions of Lviv buildings.
Oksana Boyko
Architecture researcher, author of architectural descriptions of buildings in Lviv, coordinator of the research "Around Staroyevreiska" about the former jewish district in Lviv.
Viktor Martynyuk
Literature historian, coordinator of the project "Imaginary Map of the Literary Lviv (±1939)".
Danylo Ilnytskyi
Literature historian, takes part in the project "Imaginary Map of the Literary Lviv (±1939)".
Andriy Bondarenko
Researcher, autor of the research "Pidzamche: places and spaces".
Natalia Otrishchenko
Natalia Otrishchenko is responsible for coordinating two oral history projects within "Lviv Interactive" (LIA): "Artistic City and Urban Art: Lviv's Theaters after 1945", and "The Cinemas and Cinema Clubs of Lviv".
Halyna Bodnar
In 2008-2010, Bodnar authored and led her "Oral History of Lviv" project at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe.
Maria Antoniuk
Researcher and interviewer for the project "The City of Art and Urban Art: Theaters in Lviv Since 1945," which is being implemented as part of the project "Lviv Interactive."
Natalia Mysak
Researcher of the modernist architecture of Sykhiv which is one of the largest districts of Lviv, author of buldings' architectural descriptions.
Andriy Shulyar
Researcher of Lviv's soviet modernist architecture, author of architectural descriptions of Lviv's buildings
Taras Martynenko
Researcher, is author of the project "World War II in Lviv: events, people, places of memory".
Ihor Syomochkin
Art historian, author of architectural descriptions of buildings in Lviv.
Ihor Zhuk
Expert, author of architectural descriptions of the buildings in the project "Lviv Interactive," author of themes "Kastelivka", "Parks and Gardens of Lviv", project photographer.
Khrystyna Kharchuk
Architecture historian, author of architectural descriptions of the buildings in the project "Lviv Interactive," author of the theme "Lviv’s Cemeteries."
Dr. Waitman W. Beorn
Historian of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, lecturer at the University of Virginia, author of the entries about the Janowska camp and Leon Wells story.
Joanna Majewska
Martin Rohde
Andriy Karpyak
Oksana Lepak
Author of historical descriptions of Lviv’s cinemas.
Oksana Sikorska
Researcher, author of the project "Gimpel's Theater, other theaters and Lviv: interactions and relations within the city".
Andriy Bezsmertnyi

Translation and Editing

Andriy Masliukh
Translator, provides English translations for the project since 2014.
Iľja Rákoš
Translator, provided English translations for the project in 2012-2015.
Natalya Bahnyuk
Yulia Pavlyshyn
"Lviv Interactive" editor.

Design and Technical Support