<div class="value"><p>Lviv train station, built according to plans

carried out in 1890, by the well-known architect Vladislav Sadlovski,

profesor at the AgriculturalSchool, on the basis of given information,

gathered by the director of the train station Ludwig Wezhbitz. Work on

the project was carried out by experienced rail workers Y. Vysotski, F.

Rybitski, senior commissars E. Tsyprian and A. Zazulia, architects A.

Zakharievych, K. Zhechytski, H. Jablonski, Y. Hornunh, I. Kendzerski, T.

Talovski. In 1902 the construction of this exemplary object began,

which was realized by the building firm of I. Levyns’ky, A. Zakharevych

and Y. Sosnovs’kyi. The momumental building of the Main Railway Station,

built with the use of the newest technologies, was handed over to the

city for use on March 26, 1904. On that day the dedication and grand

opening of one of the biggest and nicest train stations in Europe at

that time took place. Everything that surrounded the passenger in the

train station’s building, created a feeling of comfort. Without a doubt,

the Lviv main train station then was an example of the unity of art and

technological progress, which for many years made it a favourite object

for photographing. The buildings of the train station were temporarily

destroyed in 1915 during the retreat of the Russian armies from Lviv.

The station endured a lot of destruction during the battles for Lviv in

1918 - 1919, during the dramatic events of the Polish-Ukrainian wars;

its full reconstruction was completed only in 1930, in fact, it was then

that it became three-storied. On September 1, 1939, the Main Railway

Station was practically destroyed by German air bombing. 150 km of rails

on the area of 270 hectares were transformed into ruins. The trade

station was ruined; telephone lines torn, Klepariv and Pidzamche

stations ruined. A temporary train station was built in 1940, in 1941, 1

million krb. were set aside for the reconstruction of the train

station. June 22, 1942 the train station and depot were bombarded once

again, which brought about a temporary destruction. The Main Railway

Station was rebuilt during the occupation. After the end of the war 6000

people worked on the reconstruction. The partly ruined main building,

two locomotive depots, collapsed underground passages to the platforms,

and platform trusses were reconstructed. In April 1945 a resolution was

passed in the government “About the reconstruction and development of

trade, transport and public utilities of the city of Lviv”. In the

decree, the demands included, among others, the rebuilding of the

passenger train station before October 1946. The reconstruction was

finished in the established time period. The head of the Lviv train

station at the time (1940-1949) was Petro Kas’ianovych Shakhrai, who up

until the war was the head of the Odessa station, deputy head of the

ministry of transportation of the South-Western railway, head of the

Donetsk highway.</p></div>