Oral stories
- ID:
- 49343
- Description:
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Interview with a man born in the village of Tarasivka. After the 8th grade of school, he went to study at a technical school in Lviv, majoring in industrial equipment repair. He said that the first impression of Lviv was when he came as a child to visit his uncle and went to the "Ukraine" cinema. He was impressed by the movie. In 1965, after school, he was sent as a locksmith to Polaron, to a mechanical repair shop. The man described that they made consumer goods there, serviced the equipment of all other shops of the plant, and the territory and premises of the plant, in general. In 1969, the man became a foreman. He was also tasked with developing and designing machines and equipment himself. The man said that he had developed a 6-meter alcohol thermometer; in Soviet times, it hung on the corner of the current Svobody Avenue and Doroshenko Street. He said that he lived in a dormitory from Polaron, where he met his future wife. Then, together they lined up for an apartment, which they received in 1976 on the present-day Puliuya Street. The man described the granted apartment and the area around.
The recording was made at the Center for Urban History. Interviewer – Myroslava Lyakhovych. - Collection:
- Industrial biographies of the city
