The 1st newspaper in Ukraine


Several issues of the first newspaper in Ukraine (“Kurier Lwowski”) appeared in 1749.

Several issues of the first newspaper in Ukraine (“Kurier Lwowski”) appeared in 1749, and in 1776, a weekly newspaper called the “Gazette de Leopol” began to be distributed – the first newspaper to come out regularly in Ukraine.
In 1811, the oldest existing newspaper in Ukraine and Poland, the “Gazeta Lwowska” came out in Lviv. The first Ukrainian language newspaper, “Zorya Halytska” appeared in Lviv in 1848.

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January 2012
June 2012
Alfa Jazz Fest 2012
“Fairy-Tale in the Grove” - The 8th theater festival for children
July 2012
The 5th “Wiz-Art” International festival
September 2012
October 2012
December 2012
Lviv Christmas Fair
February 2013
Lviv Fashion Week
April 2013
II Gastronomic Festival “Lviv on the Plate”
The III Festival of Pysanka (Easter eggs) in Lviv
“Flugery L’vova” (“Weather-Vanes of Lviv”) – the 11th International Jazz Festival
“Lviv – the Capital of Handicrafts” Festival


1626
Union of Armenian Church with Roman Catholic Church
1928
civil airport in Sknyliv was built
1820
on Pelczynski lake general Fresnel set up a military swimming pool and a swimming school
1772
Lviv was occupied by Austrian general Hadik
1839
The vaulting of Poltva river has started
1842
city theater founded by Stanislaw Skarbek was built (today it is Maria Zankovetska Theater)
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