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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.

Lviv Central Railway Station building (1901–1904, architect Władysław Sadłowski — general design; Alfred Zachariewicz and Tadeusz Obmiński — interiors; engineering group led by Ludwik Wierzbicki — structural engineering; 1921–1922 — addition of the second floor; 1946–1951 — reconstruction with interior renovation). The architectural style is Secessionist with Neorenaissance elements. The train shed was designed by a group of railway engineers led by L. Wierzbicki; in 1946 — reconstructed; 2000–2001 — restored). The Lviv main station complex stands as a prime example of a monumental architectural structure designed at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Lviv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater was built in 1897-1900 under a project designed by architect Zygmunt Gorgolewski. The building is erected in historicist style and influenced by the so-called Vienna Neo-Renaissance. The monumental theater building has occupied a key position in the architectural ensemble of the city’s main avenue created in the late 19^th – early 20^th century.

The monument is located within the old city center — a medieval walled city, on the territory of the Ensemble of the Historic Center, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Armenian Cathedral Ensemble features: the Cathedral itself, the bell tower, the palace of the Armenian archbishop, the Armenian bank, the monastery of the Armenian Benedictines, the memorial column of St. Christopher, and the Golgotha Altar. 

A residential four-story apartment building (1910–1911; Ivan Levynsky architectural bureau). The building is L-shaped and has a cut corner. An oriel window protrudes on the corner; it is crowned with a high helmet-shaped cupola. The facades are segmented with cornices and pilasters that finish with attics. The staircase is adjacent to the corner of the inner yard. This is an example of the early twentieth-century Neoclassicism.