Stryiskyi Park site – former "Sokil-Batko" stadium

The stadium of the "Sokil-Batko" society was built on the site of the old cycling track of a Polish Cycling Club designed in 1906 by Jan Stoberski (DALO 2/4/1265:24). The location can be seen on the site plan of the Large Lviv of 1931. Several more stadiums were located nearby, such as a stadium of a Polish Sports Society, and those of sports societies "Czarni" (The Black), "Pogoń" (The Pursuit) and "Lechia" (Orłowicz, 1925, 136). In 1911, the Ukrainian Sports Society "Sokil" (The Falcon) submitted for approval to Lviv magistrate the plans for construction of the stationary stands for their own stadium, for temporary stands (with an alternative design) and a temporary changing room on a plot of land on vul. Stryiska (DALO 2/4/1265:3). It was initiated by Ivan Boberskyi, Mykola Shukhevych, Tadey Soloviy, Kost Pankivskyi, Stepan Fedak, Mykola Zayachkivskyi, Les Kulchytskyi, and Kost Levytskyi, Ukrainians from The Dnieper Ukraine, Kuban, Canada, and USA. The site for the stadium was allocated out of their private lands by Józefa Lewicka and Klementyna Natalia Lewicka (DALO 2/4/1265:25). The design was developed by an architect Jan Karasiński, as commissioned by Dr. Mykhaylo Voloshyn. In the same year, the magistrate approved the submitted projects (DALO 2/4/1265:25). An additional design was developed by architects Yevhen Nahirnyi and Antoni Śmiałowski for the anniversary Shevchenko dedicated rally to take place on June, 28-29, 1914 (DALO 2/4/1265:42). In particular, the architects developed a site plan for the stadium, new designs for an entrance gate, and for stationary and temporary stands. In 1925, new stands were built according to the design by Yevhen Nahirnyi (approved on June, 26, 1925) at the expense of the central cooperative bank "Regional Credit Union"  (DALO 2/4/1265:36-37). Presently, the stadium does not exist. Its territory has been included into Stryiski Park.