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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.

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  • Vul. Tarasa 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. Zaklynskykh – Znesinnia Cemetery

    The cemetery is located on the territory of the historic Kaiserwald, near present-day vul. Zaklynskykh. It is situated in a small ravine between two slopes. This cemetery deserves special attention as it contains unstudied nineteenth-century artistic monuments, as well as historical and memorial burials from World War I and the Ukrainian-Polish War of 1918–1919. These notably include the graves of Ukrainian Galician Army (UGA) soldiers, Thalerhof prisoners, and activists from the "Prosvita" society and the "Ukrainian Women's Union".

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  • Vul. Illi Mechnykova – Lychakivskyi (Lychakiv) cemetery

    Vul. Illi Mechnykova – Lychakivskyi (Lychakiv) cemetery
  • Vul. Tarasa Shevchenka – Yanivsky (Yaniv) cemetery

    Vul. Tarasa Shevchenka – Yanivsky (Yaniv) cemetery
  • Vul. Zaklynskykh – Znesinnia Cemetery

    Vul. Zaklynskykh – Znesinnia Cemetery