Independence Street (Ivano-Frankivsk)
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Independence Street is considered the central street of Ivano-Frankivsk
. It runs from west to east and passes the original city's center 250-300 meters south from it. Starting at the west side of the Viche Maidan what is known as the Halych Street Independence Street makes its way along the old Tysmenytsia road east to Bystrytsia river, passing which it changes its name to Tysmenytsia Street running through the city's suburbs towards the city of Tysmenytsia
.
The street is not the oldest in the city and was formed after the dissembling of the city's fortifications at the end of 18th century. The street began to gain its importance with establishment of railroad through the city around 1860s, which was passing the old Stanislawow on the north-eastern side running from the north to the south-east. Until 1869 the street, unknown whether officially or not, was simply referred to as Tysmenytsia Road. On July 1, 1869 at the 300 Anniversary of the Union of Lublin
the street was officially renamed into Leon Sapieha Street (Ulica Sapiezinskogo) after Leon Sapieha
, a renown Polish parliamentarian. That name the street carried almost until the Soviet invasion in 1939. It was during that time that Independence Street was becoming the central street of the city. With the establishment of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in the region (1918-1922), the name of the street changed to Shevchenko Street (1919-1922) after Taras Shevchenko
. With the establishment of the Soviet regime and until 1993 with the displacing the city's Lenin monument the street was called Soviet.
Ivano-Frankivsk
Ivano-Frankivsk is a historic city located in the western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast, municipality....
. It runs from west to east and passes the original city's center 250-300 meters south from it. Starting at the west side of the Viche Maidan what is known as the Halych Street Independence Street makes its way along the old Tysmenytsia road east to Bystrytsia river, passing which it changes its name to Tysmenytsia Street running through the city's suburbs towards the city of Tysmenytsia
Tysmenytsia
Tysmenytsia is a city, the administrative center of the Tysmenytsia Raion in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of western Ukraine. In 1900 as part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Tysmenytsia was in Tłumacz powiat.-Overview:...
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Brief history
Union of Lublin
The Union of Lublin replaced the personal union of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with a real union and an elective monarchy, since Sigismund II Augustus, the last of the Jagiellons, remained childless after three marriages. In addition, the autonomy of Royal Prussia was...
the street was officially renamed into Leon Sapieha Street (Ulica Sapiezinskogo) after Leon Sapieha
Leon Sapieha
Leon Sapieha was a Polish noble , politician and statesman.Leon was born and educated in Warsaw, and studied law and economic in Paris and Edinburgh from 1820 to 1824. He began to work in the administration in the Polish Kingdom...
, a renown Polish parliamentarian. That name the street carried almost until the Soviet invasion in 1939. It was during that time that Independence Street was becoming the central street of the city. With the establishment of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in the region (1918-1922), the name of the street changed to Shevchenko Street (1919-1922) after Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...
. With the establishment of the Soviet regime and until 1993 with the displacing the city's Lenin monument the street was called Soviet.
Architectural monuments
- monument of Ivan Franko
- Regional Music-Drama Theater
- architectural ensemble of stometrivka
- Gartenberg's Passage (shopping mall "Malva")
- Hausvald Building
- others
Cultural sights
- The city's youth library
- Cinema theater "Kosmos" (former historical Jewish cemetery)
- The city's children puppet theater
- others
List of intersecting streets
- Halych Street
- Levko Bachynsky Street
- Dmytro Vitovsky Street
- Markian Shashkevych Street
- Ivan Vahylevych Street
- Sich Riflemen Street
- Ivan Franko Street
- Bohdan Lepky Street
- Stepan Bandera Street
- Mariyka Pidhiryanka Street
- Dashevych Street
- Roman Shukhevych Street
- Shota Rustaveli Street
- Railway Street
- Anton Chekhov Street
- Khryplyn Street
- Truskavets Street
- Crimea Street
- Traktor Street
- Uhornyky Street
- Mykytyntsi Street
- Mykytyntsi Lane
- Volodymyr Ivasyuk Street
- others