<p>The monument to the first printer Ivan

Fedorov, author of the first Ukrainian printed books, was built and

officially opened on November 26, 1977. The figure of the printer, which

stands on a rectangleof dark cobblestone- is quite an untraditional

artistic rendering for that time. The authors of the project were Lviv

sculptors Valentyn Borysenko and Valentyn Podolskyi, the architectural

planning was done by architect Anatoliy Konsulov. The monument was

placed on a square, which was created after the reordering of the square

at the foot of the Korniakto tower, between the entrances to the

Uspenska church and the government archives of Lviv region, and the

streets Pidval’na and Ruska. The backdrop is one of the most interesting

sacral structures in Lviv- the Dominican church of the Divine Body,

where in Soviet times the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism

was located (now the Museum of the History of Religion).</p>