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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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The Habsburg University

The University, founded in 1784 by Joseph II on the basis of the abolished Jesuit academy, was to become the main source of professional officials for the capital of the Galician province. Stress was laid not on research, but chiefly on the training of managers. After numerous changes, in particular, the demotion of the institution status to that of a lyceum, in 1817 the university was refounded by Emperor Francis II. The institution existed in this condition till the end of 1918.
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Jan Kazimierz University

The Franz (Francis) I University of Lviv was reorganized as the Jan Kazimierz University in 1918, after the Polish-Ukrainian war and the battles for Lviv. During the period, the University was one of the largest and most significant scientific and cultural centers of interwar Poland. It was renamed after the beginning of the Soviet occupation in 1939 into Ivan Franko State University.
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