Janivskyj Cemetery

Way in the cemetery

Cemetery entrance 2012

Archbishop Jozef Bilczewski's grave

The Janiwskyj Cemetery ( Ukrainian Янівський цвинтар Janiwskyj zwyntar , Polish Cmentarz Janowski ) is a cemetery in the western Ukrainian city ​​of Lviv .

More than 200,000 people were buried on an area of ​​38 hectares in the Janivskyj Cemetery, founded in 1883 in the north-west of Lviv. It is the final resting place of a large number of prominent Ukrainian and Polish personalities and the location of numerous graves of great artistic value.

At the main entrance to the cemetery on Shevchenko Street is a columned chapel from the 17th century.

The burial site's Jewish cemetery was established in 1855. Mass shootings took place in the area of ​​the cemetery during World War II . On November 25, 1942, 28 Ukrainian prisoners from the Ukrainian underground who had killed a Gestapo general were executed here. In addition, the remains of victims of the neighboring Lemberg-Janowska forced labor camp lie in the cemetery .

Due to a lack of space, the Janivskyj Cemetery has been closed to burials since the early 1980s. In the early 1990s, a memorial to the soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was erected in the cemetery .

Buried personalities

Among the personalities buried in the Janivskyj Cemetery are:

• Bohdan-Ihor Antonytsch (1909–1937), Ukrainian poet and prose writer
• Olha Bassarab (1889-1924), Ukrainian activist
• Józef Bilczewski (1860–1923), Archbishop of Lemberg
• Kost Lewyzkyj (1859–1941), Ukrainian lawyer and politician
• Stefan Grabiński (1887–1936), Polish writer
• Myron Tarnawskyj (1869–1938), Ukrainian general

Web links

Commons : Janivskyj Cemetery  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Shevchenko Street Janivskyi Cemetery on lia.lvivcenter.org ; accessed on August 17, 2020 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Janivskyj Cemetery on the Lviv City website; accessed on August 17, 2020 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ site plan of the cemetery ; accessed on August 17, 2020 (Ukrainian)
4. ↑ Entry on memorial complex in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on August 17, 2020 (Ukrainian)
5. ↑ https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/24637283.html
6. ↑ http://incognita.day.kiev.ua/olga-basarab.html
7. ^ Entry on Kostjantyn Levyzkyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on August 18, 2020 (Ukrainian)

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 8 ″  N , 23 ° 59 ′ 49 ″  E