Doroshenko Street (Lviv)

Doroshenko Street has been known since 1569 as the Sistovo Road . This name comes from the surname of Erasmus Sixtus , a doctor of medicine whose farm (landowner economy) was located near the church of St. Mary Magdalene . In 1938, the section of Sikstuska Street from the Main Post Office to Leon Sapega Street (now Bandera) was named Lviv Defense Street. In 1941-1944, the street was called Siststutsstrasse , 1944 - Sikstuskaya , 1944 - the beginning of the 1990s - Zhovtnevaya (i.e. October), from the beginning of the 1990s - the street was named after the hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine Petro Doroshenko .

In the upper part of the street in the 17th century , the Senyavsky arsenal and the Dominican monastery with the church of St. Magdalena were built, which formed a fortification site west of the city fortifications. In the XVIII century, the upper part of the street belonged to Prince Augustus Czartoryski, here was his palace, in which Tadeusz Kosciuszko stayed in November 1792 .

Until the end of the 18th century, the lower part of the street was occupied by marshes and swamps, where Lviv hunted wild ducks. These sites began to be quickly built up in the middle of the 19th century after the demolition of the city walls and the formation of the future Mickiewicz Square and Liberty Avenue .

In the 19th century, the upper part of the Sixtus was considered far from the city, people came here to rest. A large piece of land on the odd side of the street, along with the garden, was occupied by a church and a Dominican monastery, and after the liquidation of the order in 1792, the Greek Catholic seminary occupied this property.

Part of this site in 1890 was occupied by the building of the General Post Office and the new seminary house. Residential buildings No. 45-61 (architect Yu. Menker) and No. 60-71 (architect V. Minkevich) were successfully completed, which formed a line of single-style houses with bright individual features. The comfort of these houses (convenient planning, ceiling height, the ratio of living and functional areas) led to the fact that after the final accession of Lviv to the Ukrainian SSR in 1944, a significant part of the housing was occupied by regional leaders of a high rank.

In 1894, an electric tram line was laid along the lower part of the Sikstuskaya from the railway station to the Getman shafts , from where it branched out to the Galitsky regional exhibition on Sofiyivka and through Rynok Square to Lychakiv .

Until 1939, several publishing houses and newspaper offices were located on Sikstuska Street: official newspapers Wіadomoadci Gmіnne, Gazeta ko kcіelna and Głos prawa, newspapers Wschód, Zorza nowa.

During the Great Patriotic War, two buildings in the lower part of the street were destroyed by bombing. The vacated section is partially empty, partially occupied by the building - a “pencil case” of the telephone exchange and a tram stop. In Soviet times, the building of the Lviv Medical School was also built at the top of the street.

• The last pre-war president of the city of Lviv, Stanislav Ostrovsky (1892-1982) lived at No. 52.
• In number 45-61 lived the Lviv communist elite; on one of the houses there is a stove dedicated to Yuriy Melnychuk, editor of the Ukrainian literary magazine Zhovten.
• At number 48 on June 22, 1941, writers Stepan Tudor and Alexander Gavrilyuk were killed in a house on the street from a fallen German air bomb.
• In number 77 - Alfred Zalevskaya’s House in the style of modernized classicism (1910-1911, architect Zbigniew Brochwich-Levinsky ). In the house lived the Lviv architect Tadeusz Obminsky (1874-1932).

• Vuytsik V., Territorial development of the city of Lviv (until 1939) // News of the Institute "Ukrzakhidproektrestavratsiya", part 8, Lviv 1997, S. 41-48.
• Encyclopedia of Lviv , T. 1 / Ed. A. Kozitsky and I. Pidkovi, Lviv: Literature 2007, 656 p.

• Doroshenko Street on the Yandex.Panorama service.
• Kotlobulatova I. Sukstuskaya, now Doroshenko
• Melnik I. Street Doroshenko