Lviv

Львів
Львів
City of regional significance
Ukrainian transcription(s)
• National	Lviv
• ALA-LC	L′viv
• BGN/PCGN	L’viv
• Scholarly	L′viv
	Flag Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 49°49′48″N 24°00′51″E / 49.83000°N 24.01417°ECoordinates: 49°49′48″N 24°00′51″E / 49.83000°N 24.01417°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Lviv Oblast
Municipality	Lviv
Founded	1240–1247
Magdeburg law	1356
Government
• Mayor	Andriy Sadovyi
Area
• Total	182.01 km2 (70.27 sq mi)
Elevation	296 m (971 ft)
Population (January 2019)
• Total	724,713
• Density	3,982/km2 (10,310/sq mi)
• Demonym	Leopolitan
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal codes	{{#property:p281}}
Licence plate	BC (before 2004: ТА, ТВ, ТН, ТС)
Sister cities	Corning, Freiburg, Grozny, Kraków, Lublin, Novi Sad, Przemyśl, Saint Petersburg, Whitstable, Winnipeg, Wolfsburg, Rochdale
Website	city-adm.lviv.ua

Lviv (Ukrainian: Львівcode: uk is deprecated ) is the capital city of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. 860,000 people live in Lviv.^[2] 88% of the people living there are Ukrainian, 8% are Russian, and 1% are Polish. An extra 200,000 people commute to Lviv every day for work.

During the city's history, it was ruled by many countries. When part of Poland it was called Lwów (pronounced and sometimes spelled Lvov). In German, it was known as Lemberg, that was part of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empires and again under Nazi German occupation. From 1350 until 1772 it belonged to the Kingdom of Poland and from 1918 to 1939 to the Republic of Poland.

The mayor is Andriy Sadovyi (as of 2024).^[3]

Pogrom

On 30 June 1941, the Wehrmacht German officers occupied Lviv, Ukraine. The German name for Lviv is Lemberg. Persecution of Jews began almost immediately, within just hours of the occupation, but ultimately a month later, a full-blown pogrom took place in Lviv. About 3000 to 7000 Jews were forced out of their homes, forced to do all sorts of forced labor, and were treated with great violence and also were humiliated and mocked greatly for the German officers' amusement and entertainment, in various forms. They were then sent in groups to newly-built Lwów Ghetto, and were forced to live in barracks, and used for forced labor, and then just mostly shot and killed there, in dug-up pits.

Lviv Media

A satellite view of Lviv (Sentinel-2, 14 August 2017)
A 17th century portrait depicting Knyaz Lev of Galicia-Volhynia with the city of Lviv in the background
Lviv High Castle first built in 1250 by Leo I of Halych and rebuilt in 1362 by Casimir III of Poland (engraving by A. Gogenberg, 17th century)
Lwów in a lithograph from 1618
John II Casimir, King of Poland, pledging an oath at Lwów's Latin Cathedral, by painter Jan Matejko. Collection of the Wrocław Museum.
18th century map of Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów)
The Racławice Panorama opened in 1894
Stanisław Skarbek Theatre in 1900
The Galician Sejm (until 1918), since 1920 the Jan Kazimierz University
Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów) in 1915