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Five Fun Facts about the Galician General Regional Exhibition of 1894

Areta — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 11:52:33 +0000

The biggest fair in the history of Lviv (Lwów), the General Regional Exhibition (Powszechna Wystawa Krajowa) drew nearly 1,150,000 visitors over a four-month period. The most distinguished guest was Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I himself. The exhibition was a platform to demonstrate Lviv’s and Galicia’s economic and cultural progress, and […]

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Tramway Rosettes and Numbers in Lviv

Areta — Mon, 21 May 2018 12:15:42 +0000

Antique tramway rosettes remain on many of Lviv’s historic buildings. These elements of infrastructure were attached to the facades of buildings to hold cross-street wires in place, which in turn supported the naked live wire which supplied power to the trams. Lviv’s first electric tram began running in 1894. Throughout the […]

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Lychakiv Station: Lviv’s Forgotten Train Station

Areta — Fri, 11 May 2018 07:15:46 +0000

Tucked away in an old neighborhood on the east side of Lviv is the site of a former Austrian-era train station — the Lychakiv Station. Lychakiv Station, built in 1906, was Lviv’s third — after the Main Railway Station and the Pidzamche Station north of the city. The station was […]

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Ukraine’s Soviet Mosaic Bus Stops

Areta — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 11:00:25 +0000

A couple of years ago my friend and I had the idea of documenting Ukraine’s Soviet-era bus stops, which remain in many villages across the country. The majority are decorated with mosaics and many have a distinct Soviet style of Socialist realism or Soviet pop art, but others styles include Cubo-Futurism, […]

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Tramway Rosettes in Glasgow

Areta — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:17:17 +0000

When I was Glasgow, I noticed on several buildings in the city center the same tram rosettes that are in Lviv. Thus I immediately knew that Glasgow once had a tram system. Glasgow’s electric tram route began in 1898. In 1962 the city abandoned its tramway system — the last city in […]

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