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Vul. Shevchenka – Yanivsky (Yaniv) cemetery
Yanivsky (Yaniv) cemetery was founded in 1883; it is situated on Shevchenka street. The area of the cemetery is about 38 hectares now; over 200 thousand persons are buried in its 68 fields. One can find there numerous burial vaults of high artistic value as well as civil and military graves from the First and Second World Wars, including those of the Ukrainian Galician Army riflemen, Polish military men, Nazi, the Yaniv concentration camp of 1941-1943 victims. In 1962 the territory of the nearby Jewish cemetery, which was founded in 1855, was attached to Yanivsky cemetery. Since the early 1980s the cemetery has been closed for burials because of lack of free area.
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Vul. Mechnikova – Lychakivskyi (Lychakiv) cemetery

Lychakivsky (Lychakiv) cemetery is situated close to Mechnykova street; its territory occupies the Lychakiv plateau and its vicinities. As for today, this is the oldest preserved cemetery in Lviv which was officially opened in 1786. It is one of the best known European necropolises containing a lot of artistic monuments. The cemetery has been declared a historical, archaeological and artistic monument of national significance. There one can see the graves of many prominent persons, military burial places belonging to the times of the First and Second World Wars etc.

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