Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów, War graves cemetery in Lychakiv district, Lviv, Ukraine

The Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów is a war graves site in the Lychakiv district of Lviv, Ukraine, with three thousand graves arranged around a central chapel. Catacombs beneath the chapel hold the remains of seventy-two Polish fighters from conflicts between 1918 and 1920.

The cemetery was established after 1918, when fallen defenders were exhumed from provisional graves and moved to land bought from the Armenian Benedictine convent; a 1921 competition for the mausoleum was won by student Rudolf Indruch. Soviet authorities demolished the site in 1951 and bulldozed the remains in 1971. Reconstruction began after Ukrainian independence and was completed on 24 June 2005, when the presidents of Poland and Ukraine inaugurated the memorial.

The name "Lwów Eaglets" refers to the teenage pupils and students among the nearly 3,000 soldiers buried here. The cemetery was designed in Art Deco style, and its layout recalls French World War I military cemeteries. The chapel holds a Virgin Mary with Child sculpture by Luna Drexlerówna, and since 2010 two stained-glass windows from Józef Furdyna's Kraków workshop.

Guided tours explain the events of the Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Soviet conflicts between 1918 and 1920. Visitors should wear comfortable shoes and allow enough time to explore the different sections.

The remains of American volunteer pilots and members of the French military mission commanded by Charles de Gaulle, who fought with Polish forces, were buried in the memorial. In 1925 one unknown defender's remains were moved from here to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw.