Armenian street - a street in the Galicia district of Lviv , in the historical part of the city , one of the oldest. It starts from Theater Street and stretches eastward, ending in a dead end. Driving along Armenian Street has been blocked since the 1990s. The building of the street is represented by the styles of the Renaissance , Baroque , Classicism .
| Armenian street | |
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| Ukrainian VΡrmenska vulitsya | |
| general information | |
| A country | |
| Region | Lviv region |
| City | Lviv |
| Area | Galitsky district |
Names
- Pekarskaya street - from the 15th century ; bakers settled here.
- Academic or Universitetskaya street - from the end of the 18th century , since there was a university building nearby.
- Dedushitsky Street - since the second half of the XIX century , in honor of an aristocratic family, whose representative Vladimir Dedushitsky founded the Museum of Natural History.
- Armenian street - from the end of the XIX century.
- Burgerstrasse and Welfenstrasse (different parts of the street) - during the German occupation.
- Again Armenian Street - since 1944 .
History
Since the Middle Ages, Armenian Street has been the center of the Armenian community of Lviv, community representatives settled here, religious and other communal institutions operated.
On the corner of Armenian and Krakow, on the site of two buildings demolished in the 1920s, in 1943 executions were carried out by occupying German authorities; after the war, a sports ground was set up here, and subsequently a playground.
Notable Buildings
- No. 2 at the beginning of the 20th century was occupied by the Ukrainian musical society Lviv Boyan and the Higher Music Institute, which was led by composer and public figure Anatol Vakhnyanin . In the Polish period, the building was occupied by a working sports club of the trade union of trams and metalworkers.
- No. 7 - Armenian Cathedral , the monastery of Armenian Benedictines, the house of the Armenian archbishop; since the 2000s, also the Zelena Kanapa art gallery.
- No. 14 - in the years 1840-1862, the Galician-Russian historian Denis Zubritsky , the author of the Chronicle of the City of Lviv , lived here, this house was his property. Now it is a residential building.
- No. 19 coffee shop " Armenian ", founded in 1979 ; in the 1980s it was a gathering place for Lviv informals, in particular, hippies and bohemians.
- No. 20 was built in the 16th century by the architect Peter Italians in the Renaissance style; near the building there is a monument to the inventor of the kerosene lamp, Lviv pharmacist Ignatius Lukasevich.
- No. 23, "House of the Seasons." The facade of the house has a sculptural decor made by the sculptor Gabriel Krasutsky. The relief allegorically depicts the four seasons with the corresponding quotes from Virgil and the image of Saturn . Since Soviet times, the building has been occupied by the educational building of the Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (now the Lviv National Academy of Arts ).
- No. 27 - since the Soviet era, a branch of the Institute for Industrial Training.
- No. 28 - in the 1950-1960s there was a hostel No. 1 of the Institute of Applied Arts.
- No. 33 - since 2006, an art gallery.
- No. 35 - cells of the Dominican monastery , in Soviet times - a grocery warehouse, then a book warehouse, since 1996 - the cultural and art center " Dzyga ".
The bell tower of the Armenian Cathedral and the former palace of the Armenian archbishop
"House of the Seasons", now the building of the Lviv National Academy of Arts
Monument to the inventor of the kerosene lamp Ignatius Lukasevich
View of the Armenian street
See also
- Russian street (Lviv)
- Jewish Quarter (Lviv)
- Staroyevreyskaya street
Links
- Armyanskaya street on the Yandex.Panorama service.
- Lemko I. Armenian