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Stryjski Park

Stryjski Park, Public park in Lviv, Ukraine

Stryjski Park covers over 52 hectares in Lviv's Halytskyi district, between Ivan Franka, Stryiska, Ulasa Samchuka and Kozelnytska streets. It has three parts: lower parterres along the valley floor, a forest-park zone on the slopes, and an upper terrace on the site of the former Eastern Trades fair. A stream, the Soroka, once ran through the valley; its bed is now a footpath linking the upper and lower sections.

Stryjski Park was designed by Arnold Röhring in 1876–1877 on the site of the closed Stryi cemetery. Planting began in 1879 on the initiative of city councillor Stanisław Niemczynowski, with 40,000 trees. In 1894 the upper terrace hosted the Regional Exhibition, served by a new electric tram and a narrow-gauge railway from Persenkówka. A monument to Jan Kiliński by Julian Markowski was unveiled on 18 June 1895.

The park's name recalls Jan Kiliński, a leader of the 1794 Warsaw uprising, though locals kept the older name Stryiskyi. From 1922 to 1939 it hosted the annual Eastern Trades fair, remembered by Stanisław Lem. A 1966 sculpture of a female figure, Lileya, stands on the pond near the main gate.

The park covers over 52 hectares between Ivan Franka, Stryiska, Ulasa Samchuka and Kozelnytska streets, in three parts: lower parterres along the valley floor, a forested slope zone and the upper terrace of the former Eastern Trades fairgrounds. A footpath follows the bed of the former Soroka stream, linking the upper terrace with the lower park. The main entrance is marked by a Corinthian-order arch built in 1952 to a design by Heinrich Shvetskyi-Vinetskyi.

The narrow-gauge tracks of the 1922 Eastern Trades fair were partly dismantled in 1951 and partly reused as the base of Lviv's children's railway. The fair itself appears in the writings of Stanisław Lem, who recalled it in his memoirs. A radio transmission tower was built in the park in the 1930s.

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