The photo shows a tram car from the legendary Lviv tram route 12. In the interwar years, this route ran from the depot on Vuletska Street (now Sakharova Street) uphill and downhill, through the city streets, to the Vysoky Zamok Park. Over time, the route was shortened and in the 1960s it was a few hundred meters of steep climb from Pidvalna Street to the Vysoky Zamok. The route was served by one car, which had control levers in two driver's cabins - on both sides of the car. At the final stop, the driver moved to the end of the tram and drove in the opposite direction. Route No. 12 was liquidated in 1969. In the center of the photo stands the Powder Tower, one of the structures of the city's external defensive fortification system. Built in 1554-1556 from stones that came from the old city arsenal; the Powder Tower is 24 m long, 24 m wide 19.5 m, with walls three meters thick, was the largest in the system of city fortifications. In 1956, after reconstruction, it was converted into the Architect's House. On the left is the oldest school building in Lviv. It was built in 1818 for the Dominican Gymnasium; from 1852 - the Second Higher City Gymnasium. In 1852-1853, the Ukrainian language was taught here by the participant of the "Russian Trinity", the poet Yakiv Holovatsky. In 1908-1930, the poet and literary critic Vasyl Shchurat worked in the gymnasium, and among its graduates was the famous science fiction writer Stanislav Lem. Now it houses secondary comprehensive school No. 8.

Oleh Vvedenskyi