General Grigorenko Square is a square in the Galician district of the city of Lviv . Located at the intersection of the streets: Gnatyuk, Kosciuszko, Listopadovoy rank, Grebenki and Mentsinsky.
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The memorial plaque to Franciszek Smolka in the square that bore his name in 1885-1946
Monument "Defenders of Ukrainian Statehood"
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Names
- The oldest name is Jesuit Square (plac Jezuicki),
- 1871 - part of Jagiellonian street ,
- 1885-1940 - F. Smolki Square - in honor of the Polish public figure, lawyer, chairman of the Austro-Hungarian Parliament and initiator of the creation of the Lublin Union barrow on the High Castle, Francisz Smolka, who lived in house number 4 (not preserved, a new building was built in its place in 1906 ).
- 1940-1941 - September 17 area ,
- 1941-1944 - Smolkiplatz ,
- 1944-1946 - Smolka Square ,
- 1946-1993 - Victory Square ,
- Since 1993 - Grigorenko Square in honor of the Soviet human rights general Petr Grigorenko .
Monuments
In 1913 - 1946, a monument to F. Smolke (sculptor T. Blotnitsky) stood on the square, which was removed in 1946 . In its place in 1999 a monument was erected to “Defenders of Ukrainian Statehood” (perished policemen, sculptors A. and V. Sukhorsky, architect A. Yarema).
Buildings
- No. 1 - a residential building of the Austrian period.
- On the corner of st. Kosciuszko and Grigorenko Square, 2 - the building of the main building of the Institute of Physical Education . Previously, the Regional Bank was located in this building (architect - Y. Tsybulsky, sculptor A. Popel, was built in 1895 - 1903 ). The interior of the house has a neo-Renaissance sculptural decoration.
- No. 3 is the neoclassical building of the Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, built in 1911 (architect - Alfred Zakharevich). Previously, there was a joint-stock cooperative bank. In the interwar times, there were various government agencies, as well as the popular Warsaw coffee house.
- Number 4 was built in a modernist style in 1906 . Previously, the Trading House of J. Stromenger (architect - Tadeusz Obminsky ) was located here.
- No. 5 - the newest building on Grigorenko Square, was erected in 1912 (architect J. Pontkowski) in a modernized Baroque style. Earlier in this house was the Gruner passage with the cinema "Marysenka" (in Soviet times - the "Pioneer"), in which the Lviv spiritual theater "Resurrection" is now located.
Literature
- Lviv. Tourist traveler. - View of the Center of Europe, L., 2007, st. 155-157.