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The Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (Cemetery of Eaglets, Polish: Cmentarz Orląt Lwowskich) is a memorial and a burial place for the Poles and their allies who died in Lviv during the hostilities of the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918−1919) and Polish-Soviet War (1919−1921). The complex is a part of the city's historic Lychakiv Cemetery.
Stefan Ivanchuk, a 60-year-old groundskeeper at Lychakiv cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, is already sweating as he bends to his work among the graves, where blue and yellow ribbons ...
Burials in Ukraine by cemetery (9 C) E. Eastern Orthodox cemeteries in Ukraine (2 P) J. ... Lychakiv Cemetery; O. Old Jewish Cemetery, Chernihiv; P. Piatykhatky ...
English: Headstone at the grave of Ivan Franko in the Lychakivskiy Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine. He is depicted as a stone breaker, in reference to his famous poem, "Kameniari". He is depicted as a stone breaker, in reference to his famous poem, "Kameniari".
In Lviv, western Ukraine, Michael Bociurkiw describes the weariness of a nation grappling with bursting cemeteries and small villages wiped of fighting men.
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Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów in 2002, after restoration. The Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (Polish: Cmentarz Obrońców Lwowa, Cmentarz Orląt, Cemetery of Eaglets, Orlat Cemetery) is a memorial and a burial place for the Poles and their allies who died in Lwów (Ukrainian: Lviv) during the hostilities of the Polish-Ukrainian War and Polish-Soviet War between 1918 and 1920.
Additional calls were made for the restoration of Ukrainian as the state language and of Ukrainian national symbols as the symbols of the country, for the revival of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, for the establishment of historical reserves at Lychakiv Cemetery and Shevchenkiv Hai , and the establishment of an Ivan Honchar Museum. [3]