<p>The monument to the first printer Ivan <br />

Fedorov, author of the first Ukrainian printed books, was built and <br />

officially opened on November 26, 1977. The figure of the printer, which<br />

stands on a rectangleof dark cobblestone- is quite an untraditional <br />

artistic rendering for that time. The authors of the project were Lviv <br />

sculptors Valentyn Borysenko and Valentyn Podolskyi, the architectural <br />

planning was done by architect Anatoliy Konsulov. The monument was <br />

placed on a square, which was created after the reordering of the square<br />

at the foot of the Korniakto tower, between the entrances to the <br />

Uspenska church and the government archives of Lviv region, and the <br />

streets Pidval’na and Ruska. The backdrop is one of the most interesting<br />

sacral structures in Lviv- the Dominican church of the Divine Body, <br />

where in Soviet times the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism <br />

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