Lviv facts for kids

Lviv
Lviv; Львів; Lwów
	City of regional significance
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	Motto: "Semper fidelis"
Country	Ukraine
Municipality	Lviv
Founded	1240–1247
Magdeburg law	1356
Area
• Total	182.01 km2 (70.27 sq mi)
Elevation	296 m (971 ft)
Population (2013)
• Total	730,272
• Density	4,298/km2 (11,130/sq mi)
• Demonym	Leopolitan
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	79000
Area code(s)	+380 32(2)
Licence plate	BC (before 2004: ТА, ТВ, ТН, ТС)
Sister cities	Corning, Freiburg, Grozny, Kraków, Lublin, Novi Sad, Przemyśl, Saint Petersburg, Whitstable, Winnipeg, Wolfsburg, Rochdale
Website	Lviv.Travel (English); City-Adm.Lviv.UA (Ukrainian)

Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів) is the capital city of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. 860,000 people live in Lviv. 88% of the people living there are Ukrainian, 8% are Russian, and 1% are Polish. An extra 200,000 people commute to Lviv every day for work.

During the city's history, it was ruled by many countries. When part of Poland it was called Lwów (pronounced and sometimes spelled Lvov). In German, it was known as Lemberg, that was part of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empires and again under Nazi German occupation. From 1350 until 1772 it belonged to the Kingdom of Poland and from 1918 to 1939 to the Republic of Poland.

Images for kids

Lviv satellite view (Landsat 5, 14 November 2010)
A 17th century portrait depicting Knyaz Lev of Galicia-Volhynia with the silhouette of Lviv in the background
The castle of Lwów in 1681, made by Georg Matthäus Vischer (1628–1696)
A painting by Jan Matejko of King John II Casimir pledging his famous oath in Lwów's Latin Cathedral.
The Racławice Panorama opened in 1894
The Galician Sejm (till 1918), since 1920 the Jan Kazimierz University
Lemberg (Lviv) in 1915
The Lwów Eaglets, teenage soldiers who fought on the Polish side during the Battle of Lwów
Eastern Trade Fair (Targi Wschodnie), main entrance.
Remaining prewar advertisement in the Polish language
Lviv Holocaust memorial in Israel
Sykhiv – Lviv's largest residential neighborhood, was built in the early 1980s under Soviet rule
Holodomor Remembrance Day 2013
Lviv City Hall
"NeoLAZ-Lemberg" – product of the Lviv Bus Factory on the streets of Lviv
SoftServe Headquarters in Lviv
Town view from The High Castle
St. George's Cathedral, Lviv
Early 20th century architecture in Lviv
Inside the Church of the Transfiguration.
The Church of the Assumption.
Chapel of the Boim family
A room in the Lviv National Art Gallery
The Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre, an important cultural centre for residents and visitors.
The main building of Lviv National Museum
Pikkardiyska Tertsiya – Ukrainian a cappella musical formation
The front façade of the Lviv University, the oldest university in Ukraine.
The former building of the Scottish Café
Clock in Lviv on Prospekt Svobody (Freedom Ave.), showing time to start of EURO 2012. Opera and Ballet Theatre in background
Buildings of the eastern side of Market Square
A Lviv tram in the Old Town.
Large bus "CityLAZ-20LF" on route number 5 on the Halytska square
The modern tram Electron T5L64
Ukrainian low-floor trolleybus Electron T19 on the city street.
Lviv's Main Railway Terminal
Lviv International Airport
Cycle lane along Lypynsky Street
Lviv Polytechnic National University
Lviv State University of Life Safety
Sholem Aleichem
Muhammad Asad
Ivan Franko
Zbigniew Herbert
Mykhailo Hrushevsky
Stanisław Lem
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Aleksander Fredro monument, moved from Lviv to Wrocław, its sister city, after World War II.
Ivan Franko Park
Stryiskyi Park
Swans in Stryiskyi Park
Botanical garden
Dominican Church
Potocki Palace
Church of St. Olha and Elizabeth
One of the streets in the city centre