Vul. Universytetska – monument to Ivan Franko

The territory where the monument was set up was part of the Jesuit garden till the 1880s. With the construction of the Galician Sejm building (now the main building of the University) in the 1880s, it was separated to arrange a green representative area in front of the parliament building. Flowerbeds were planted there, decorative compositions with stone obelisks and vases were arranged.

In 1947 the first monument to the writer was established in Lviv. The bust on a low pedestal was installed near the museum villa of Franko. The idea to install a full-body monument in Lviv was first announced after the Second World War. On 4 April 1945 the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR and the Central Committee of the CP(b)U approved the construction of monuments to Taras Shevchenko and Ivan Franko. After an estimate, which amounted to 586,000 karbovanets, was drawn, the construction was postponed. The idea was finally realized in 1964. The monument was placed opposite the main building of the university, named after Ivan Franko in 1939; in the 1950s, flower portraits of the writer were arranged there. The monument was designed by sculptors Dmytro Krvavych, Emanuil Mysko, Yakiv Chayka, and architects Vasyl Odrekhivskyi and Andriy Shuliar.