Horikhovyi Hai Park

Horikhovyi Hai (“Walnut Grove”) is a public park of about 40 hectares in Lviv's Frankivskyi district, in the Kulparkiv neighbourhood between Volodymyra Velykoho and Kniahyni Olhy streets and the Lviv–Khodoriv railway line. It was laid out in the early 1970s, named “Park of the 30th Anniversary of the Liberation of Lviv” in 1974 and given back its historical name in the early 1990s. Hornbeam and walnut dominate the woodland, with beech, oak, ash, birch and maple; martens and squirrels live here, and thrushes, nightingales and finches nest in the trees. The Vulka stream runs through the park, and its valley holds two small lakes — one has dried up and grown over, the other hosts the annual Epiphany bathing since 2015. In 1978 the children's cinema “Orliatko” (later “Sokil”) was built in the middle of the park; the building now houses the Lviv Film Center. A wooden Orthodox church stands on the southern edge, and the Greek Catholic Church of the Ascension (1996) is next to the park.