<div class="value"><div class="value"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="hps">Lenin's monument</span> <span class="hps">was erected</span> <span class="hps">in front of the</span> <span class="hps">Opera and</span> <span class="hps alt-edited">Ballet Theater. </span></span><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span class="hps">The monument</span> <span class="hps">was</span> <span class="hps">sculptor Sergei</span> <span class="hps">Merkurov</span> <span class="hps">Moscow</span> <span class="hps">(1881-1952). </span></span><br />

City Theatre (other names: Opera, Grand Theatre, Opera House, Ivan

Franko State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Lviv, Solomia

Krushelnytska State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Lviv) has been

the pride and one of the crucial visual points of downtown Lviv for over

a century</div></div>