Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów

Local nameМеморіал львівських орлят
LocationLychakivskyi District, Lviv, Ukraine

The Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów is a memorial and a burial place for the Poles and their allies who died in Lwów during the hostilities of the Polish-Ukrainian War and Polish-Soviet War between 1918 and 1920.

The complex is a part of the city's historic Lychakiv Cemetery. There are about 3000 graves in that part of the cemetery; some from the Lwów Eaglets young militia volunteers, after whom that part of the cemetery is named. It was one of the most famous necropolises of the interwar Poland.

Initially neglected during Soviet times, much of the cemetery was destroyed in 1971.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery_of_the_Defenders_of_Lwów

Address (Unnamed Road), Львів, Ukraine

Coordinates 49°49'48.427" N 24°3'28.591" E

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