Lychakiv Park

Lychakiv Park is a landscape-architecture monument of local importance (since 1984) covering 12.36 hectares at the corner of Lychakivska and Pasichna streets in north-eastern Lviv. In the mid-19th century this was wasteland beyond the Lychakiv toll gate, then the city limit. The park was laid out in 1883 in a formal style to a design by the city gardener Arnold Röhring, filling in old sand and clay pits; it started at 6 hectares, opened officially in 1892, and from 1894 the hill became a popular place of rest. In Soviet times the park grew by afforesting the wasteland near the Hill of Glory, a military cemetery founded in 1915 after the Battle of Galicia and rebuilt in 1945–1958. The original plantings were black pine, spruce, maple, lime and birch; the section by the tram No. 2 terminus is 90% black pine and Norway spruce. A monument to Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki (sculptor Hryhorii Kuznevych, 1905) stands in the park, and the Church of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn (1931–1934), now the Church of the Intercession, was built on the adjoining plot.