Lviv ; see also other names) is the largest city in Western Ukraine and the sixth-largest city in Ukraine overall, with a population of 717,510 Lviv is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.
Velyki Mosty is a city in Chervonohrad Raion of Lviv Oblast (region) of Western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Velyki Mosty urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is 6,312 .
Nina Mytrofanivna Matviyenko, a Ukrainian singer, People's Artist of Ukraine.
Solomiia Dmytrivna Pavlychko was a Ukrainian literary critic, philosopher, feminist, and translator. She is considered as one of the pioneering scholars to introduce gender studies and feminist analysis to Ukraine.
Hanna Mykolaivna Herman is a Ukrainian politician, former Member of Parliament of Ukraine, and advisor to former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.
Iryna Onufriyivna Kalynets was a Ukrainian poet, writer, activist and Soviet dissident during the 1970s. Kalynets was the wife of another leading Soviet dissident, Ihor Kalynets.
Vasyl Omelianovych Makukh was a Soviet veteran of World War II, political prisoner and Ukrainian activist, and member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Having been conscripted into the Red Army, in November 1944 Makukh defected and joined the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In February 1946 he was wounded and captured after a shootout with Soviet and Polish border guards at the Soviet-Polish border. On 15 February 1946, Makukh was taken to the district precinct of the KGB in Velyki Mosty and later to Lviv Prison No. 4. On 11 July 1946, the Military Tribunal of Lviv garrison sentenced him to 10 years of hard labour (katorga) with five years of detention plus the confiscation of all his property. Makukh served his sentence in Dubravlag (Mordovia) and other GULAG camps in Siberia. On 18 July 1955, he was freed and exiled to a local settlement, where he met a woman who had also served 10 years imprisonment. In 1956, both managed to return to Ukraine, and being forbidden to return to their own region, they settled in Dnipropetrovsk, where they married and Makukh worked as a schoolteacher.
Ihor Ihorovych Kostenko was a Ukrainian journalist, student activist and Wikipedian killed during the Euromaidan events.
Olena Andriivna Stetskiv is a Ukrainian luger. She participated at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.
Mali Hrybovychi is a small village (selo), which has only 414 persons and is located in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast of Western Ukraine. The village is located at a distance of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the village Velyki Hrybovychi, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from the regional center of Lviv and 27 kilometres (17 mi) from the district center Zhovkva. It belongs to Lviv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
Olha Ihorivna Knysh is a former female alpine skier from Ukraine. She represented Ukraine at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She participated thrice at World Cup in giant slalom but she didn't manage to qualify for the second run in any race.
Irena Turkevycz-Martynec (1899-1983) was born in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and came to Canada, to Winnipeg, in 1949. She was a Prima donna in the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, and performed in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, and many other European cities during her long and storied career.
Sofia Yablonska-Oudin was a Ukrainian-French travel writer, photographer, and architect. She was born in Habsburg Galicia, but lived itinerantly; her family moved to Russia during the First World War and moved back to Western Ukraine in 1921. In the late 1920s she emigrated to Paris. In Paris, Yablonska became a journalist and began travelling the world; she later used these experiences to write three books. Yablonska retired to Noirmoutier in 1950 with her husband and three children and became an architect.
Natalka Volodymyrivna Sniadanko is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and translator. She won the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize in 2011.
Iryna MyroslavivnaKonstankevych is a Ukrainian politician, scientist, public figure, doctor of philology, professor, People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VIII and IX convocations. She is a member of the Party for the Future parliamentary group. Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Humanitarian and Information Policy.
Tamara Ivanovna Hundorova is a Ukrainian literary critic, culturologist and writer. She is a professor and head of the Theory of Literature Department at the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a professor and dean at the Ukrainian Free University.
Oksana Liaturynska was a Ukrainian artist, sculptor, writer, poetess and public figure. Liaturynska signed her works either by her own name or by pen names: Oksana Pechenih, Roksana Vyshnevetska and Yeronim.
Kateryna Mikhalitsyna is a Ukrainian poet, children's writer, translator and editor.
Halyna Vasylivna Pahutiak is a Ukrainian writer known for her fantasy fiction. Combining "magic realism's hermetic style with popular genres and vampire themes", Pahutiak's stories employ "fantastic metamorphoses, maternal female visions, and infantile dreams". Her novel The Servant of Dobtomyl (2006) won the 2010 Shevchenko National Prize in Literature.
Vira Ageyeva is a Ukrainian literary critic and philologist. In 1990, she and other scholars established the first feminist seminars in the country as an initiative of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and she was a co-founder of the Kyiv Institute for Gender Studies in 1998. She was honored as a joint winner of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1996 and the Petro Mohyla Prize, an award given by Academic Council of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, in 2008.
