Lviv is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the sixth-largest in Ukraine, with a population of 717,510 . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. It was named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia.
Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.
Omeljan Yosypovych Pritsak was the first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973–1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
Ukrainian literature is literature written in the Ukrainian language.
The University of Lviv, presently the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, is the oldest institution of higher learning in present-day Ukraine dating from 1661 when John II Casimir, King of Poland, granted it its first royal charter. Over the centuries, it has undergone various transformations, suspensions, and name changes that have reflected the geopolitical complexities of this part of Europe. The present institution can be dated to 1940. It is located in the historic city of Lviv in Lviv Oblast of Western Ukraine.
Ivan Krypiakevych was a Ukrainian historian, academician, professor of Lviv University and director of the Institute of Social Sciences of Ukraine. He was a specialist on Ukrainian history of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, writing extensively on the social history of western Ukraine and the political history of the Ukrainian Cossacks, especially during the time of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. He also wrote many textbooks for school use, popularizations, and some historical fiction for children.
Volodymyr Hnatiuk, writer, literary scholar, translator, and journalist, and was one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers.
Ivan Vakarchuk was a Ukrainian and Soviet physicist, politician and social activist. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013 he was Rector of the Lviv University. In 2007–2010 he was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine, he was father of the leader of the rock band Okean Elzy Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.
Leonid Ivanovych Rudnytzky is a linguist, professor of German, Slavic and Ukrainian Studies, co-editor of numerous American and Ukrainian encyclopedias, and scholar of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The Lviv University of Trade and Economics is a university in Lviv, Ukraine.
Bohdan Horyn is a Ukrainian human rights activist and dissident. He was a People's Deputy of the first and second convocations of the Verkhovna Rada from May 15, 1990 to May 12, 1998.
Oleksandr Dmytrovych Sviatotskyi is a Ukrainian jurist, Doctor of Legal Sciences (1995), Professor (1997), Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine (2009), Honored Lawyer of Ukraine (1997), Editor-in-Chief of the oldest Ukrainian national Legal Journal “Law of Ukraine” (1995–), Honorary Professor of Zaporizhzhya National University.
Krytyka is a Ukrainian intellectual monthly/bi-monthly magazine and publishing house dedicated to in-depth analysis of current affairs, culture and book reviews in Ukraine and the region. Krytyka was founded in 1997 by the Harvard professor of Ukrainian literature George Grabowicz. The magazine is a partner of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, University of St. Gallen, and an exclusive partner of The New York Review of Books in Ukraine. Krytyka receives support from Western and Ukrainian foundations for its various projects . Krytyka is a member of Eurozine, a network of European cultural magazines, and sees its role in mediating between Ukrainian and global intellectual elites. Since 2014, it is also available in English.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lviv, Ukraine.
Leontii Voitovych is a modern Ukrainian scientist-historian and holds a Doctor of Science degree. He is a research fellow of the department of Middle Ages history at the Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies as well as an academic department director of history of Middle Ages and Byzantine studies in the University of Lviv.
Yaryna Turchyn – Director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Studies of Lviv Polytechnic National University, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor.
Oleksandr Glotov is a Ukrainian literary historian, journalist, member of the Ukraine's National Union of Journalists, Doctor of Philological Sciences, and professor.
Yaroslav Dashkevych (1926-2010) was Ukrainian historian, archaeographer, armenologist. He wrote over 1700 scientific and publicist works. Dashkevych was a representative of Hrushevsky school of history and a victim of Stalinist terror. He was a Doctor of Historical Sciences.
Andrii Portnov is a Ukrainian historian, essayist, and editor. He is the Chair Professor of Entangled History of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). and a Director of the PRISMA UKRAЇNA Research Network Eastern Europe. He specializes in Polish-Russian-Ukrainian history and memory studies.
Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky was a historian of Ukrainian socio-political thought, political scientist and scholar publicist. He significantly influenced Ukrainian historical and political thought by writing over 200 historical essays, commentaries and reviews, and also serving as editor of several book publications. He has been praised one of the most influential Ukrainian historians of the twentieth century. He is sometimes referred to as Ivan Łysiak-Rudnytsky, but the surname he used was his mother’s name Rudnytsky.
