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List Of Mayors Of Lviv
The following is a list of mayors of the city of Lviv, Ukraine. It includes positions equivalent to mayor, such as chairperson of the city council executive committee. Mayors Most prominent mayors ( ''burmistrz'') during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth * Peter Stecher (1407) * Paweł Kampian (1584) * Stanisław Dybowicki (1594, 1601) * Stanisław Scholz (1598) * Georg Boim (between 1610 and 1614) * Bartołomiej Uberowicz (1619) * Marcin Kampian (1623) * Erasmus Sixt (1627) * Jan Alnpeck (1630) * Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic (1648, 1664-1672) * Marcin Groswaier (1641, 1643, 1645, 1650) * Dominik Wilczek (1686, 1688, 1692, 1694, 1701, 1704) * Vasyl Illiashevych (1763, 1765, 1766, 1769) * Józef Jaśkiewicz (1786) * (1786) Habsburg monarchy - Austrian Partition * Marcin Mercenier * Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier * (1787-1816) * Jan Hoffman (1817–1825) * Jan Homme (1825–1841) * Emil Gerard Festenburg (1842–1848) * 1848 * Karol Höpflingen-Bergendorf (1848–18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lviv
Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main Ukrainian culture, cultural centres of Ukraine. Lviv also hosts the administration of Lviv urban hromada. It was named after Leo I of Galicia, the eldest son of Daniel of Galicia, Daniel, King of Ruthenia. Lviv (then Lwów) emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia in the 14th century, superseding Halych, Chełm, Belz, and Przemyśl. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it went to King Casimir III the Great of Kingdom of Poland, Poland in a Galicia–Volhynia Wars, war of succession. In 1356, Casimir the Great granted it town rights. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occupation Of Poland (1939–1945)
During World War II, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union following the invasion in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945. Throughout the entire course of the occupation, the territory of Poland was divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (USSR), both of which intended to eradicate Poland's culture and subjugate its people. In the summer-autumn of 1941, the lands which were annexed by the Soviets were overrun by Germany in the course of the initially successful German attack on the USSR. After a few years of fighting, the Red Army drove the German forces out of the USSR and crossed into Poland from the rest of Central and Eastern Europe. Sociologist Tadeusz Piotrowski argues that both occupying powers were hostile to the existence of Poland's sovereignty, people, and the culture and aimed to destroy them. Before Operation Barbarossa, Germany and the Soviet Union coordinated th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayors Of Lviv
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well as the means by which a mayor is elected or otherwise mandated. Depending on the system chosen, a mayor may be the chief executive officer of the municipal government, may simply chair a multi-member governing body with little or no independent power, or may play a solely ceremonial role. A mayor's duties and responsibilities may be to appoint and oversee municipal managers and employees, provide basic governmental services to constituents, and execute the laws and ordinances passed by a municipal governing body (or mandated by a state, territorial or national governing body). Options for selection of a mayor include direct election by the public, or selection by an elected governing council or board. The term ''mayor'' shares a linguistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Lviv
The following is a :City timelines, timeline of the History of Lviv, history of the List of cities in Ukraine, city of Lviv, Ukraine. Prior to 18th century * 1256 - Lviv mentioned in the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle. * 1272 - Leo I of Galicia relocates Galicia-Volhynia capital to Lviv from Halych (approximate date). * 1340 - Town taken by forces of Casimir III of Poland. * 1356 - Magdeburg rights, Town rights granted. * 1362 - Lviv High Castle, High Castle rebuilt. * 1363 - Armenian Cathedral of Lviv, Armenian church built. * 1365 - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv, Roman Catholic Diocese of Lwów established. * 1370 - Latin Cathedral, Lviv, Latin Cathedral construction begins (approximate date). * 1387 - 27 September: Petru II of Moldavia paid Homage (feudal), homage to Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and Queen Jadwiga of Poland making Moldavia a vassal principality of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland. * 1412 - Catholic see established. * 1434 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andriy Sadovyi
Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi (; born 19 August 1968) is a Ukrainian politician and businessman who has served as the mayor of Lviv, the administrative centre of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, since 2006. He is the former leader of the Self Reliance political party, and co-founder of "Lux" media holding. Sadovyi was a candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election from 8 January until 1 March 2019, when he decided to withdraw. Early life and education Andriy Sadovyi was born on 19 August 1968 in the city of Lviv. He graduated from the Lviv Technical School of Radioelectronics in 1987. He performed his military service from 1987 to 1989 in the Soviet Army. Sadovyi graduated from Lviv Polytechnic in 1995 with a degree in electrical engineering, became qualified as an economist specializing in finance in 1997, and graduated from the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine with a master's degree in public administration in 1999. Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasyl Kuybida
Vasyl Stepanovych Kuybida (; born 8 May 1958) is a Ukrainian politician who served as Minister of Regional Development and Construction from 2007 to 2010. Prior to serving as minister, he was also mayor of Lviv from 1994 to 2002 and a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc from 2006 to mid-2007 and then again for a brief period in 2007. He was also a candidate for president during the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election, receiving 0.06% of the vote. Early life and career Vasyl Stepanovych Kuybida was born on 8 May 1958 in the city of Inta, in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. His parents lived on a special settlement. From 1975 to 1980 Kuybida studied at the University of Lviv's faculty of applied mathematics and mechanics, graduating with a specialty in applied mathematics. Political career He has been elected to the Verhovna Rada two times (in 2006 and 2007). In 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lviv City Council on October 25, 2020, the first elections to the Lviv urban hromada were held.
The Lviv City Council () is the municipal council that governs the Ukrainian city of Lviv. The council has 64 seats and is elected every 5 years. History On May 19, 2011, the Lviv City Council voted in favor of expanding the jurisdiction of the city council to the nearby area of Sokilnyky, about , and Zymna Voda, about . Since 2007, the city council has been holding a Competition of Socio-Cultural Projects. On May 27, 2020, in addition to the city of Lviv, 17 other nearby settlements were included to create the Lviv urban hromada. During the 2020 Ukrainian local elections The 2020 Ukrainian local elections took place on Sunday 25 October 2020.Ukrai ... References {{Reflist[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. Under the Soviet One-party state, one-party model, the Ukrainian SSR was governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union through its Soviet democracy, republican branch, the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union), Communist Party of Ukraine. The first iterations of the Ukrainian SSR were established during the Russian Revolution, particularly after the October Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution. The outbreak of the Ukrainian–Soviet War in the former Russian Empire saw the Bolsheviks defeat the independent Ukrainian People's Republic, during the conflict against which they founded the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, which was governed by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), in December 1917; it was later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territories Of Poland Annexed By The Soviet Union
Seventeen days after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, the Soviet Union entered the eastern regions of Poland (known as the ) and annexed territories totalling with a population of 13,299,000. Inhabitants besides ethnic Poles included Belarusian and Ukrainian major population groups, and also Czechs, Lithuanians, Jews, and other minority groups. These annexed territories were subsequently incorporated into the Lithuanian, Byelorussian, and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republics and remained within the Soviet Union in 1945 as a consequence of European-wide territorial rearrangements configured during the Tehran Conference of 1943 (see Western Betrayal). Poland was compensated for this territorial loss with the pre-War German eastern territories, at the expense of losing its eastern regions. The Polish People's Republic regime described the territories as the " Recovered Territories". The number of Poles in the Kresy i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Ostrowski
Stanisław Ostrowski (29 October 1892 – 22 November 1982) was a Polish politician, best known for serving as the last Polish Mayor of Lwow, and was President of Poland- in-exile. Life and career Ostrowski was born in Lemberg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. His father, Michał Ostrowski, had earlier fought in the pro-Polish January Uprising of 1863 for which he was sent to the Russian katorga in Siberia. Stanisław Ostrowski studied medicine at Lwow University. During the Polish-Ukrainian War ( battle of Lwów (1918)) and the Polish-Bolshevik War (1919–1920) Ostrowski participated as a physician with the Polish Army. Following these conflicts he became Vice Mayor, and later Mayor, of Lwow. He was also a three-term member of the Sejm from the BBWR Bloc. As a legislator he focused on health affairs as well as developing a reputation of being a defender of minorities' rights. After the Soviet invasion of Poland (1939), he was arrested and imprisoned in Moscow (until 1941) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
