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Culture of Lviv


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ons of the film d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers were shot in downtown Lviv.

�    The book The Lemberg Mosaic (2011) by Jakob Weiss describes Jewish L'viv (Lemberg/Lwow/Lvov) during the period 1910�1943, focusing primarily on the Holocaust and related events.

�    In the book and film The Shoes of the Fisherman the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv is released from a Soviet labor camp and later elected Pope.

Sport

Lviv was an important centre for sport in Central Europe and is regarded as the birth�place of Polish football. The first known official goal in a Polish football match was scored there on 14 July 1894 during the Lw�w-Krak�w game. The goal was scored by W?odzimierz Chomicki who represented the team of Lviv. In 1904 Kazimierz Hemerling from Lviv published the first translation of the rules of football into Polish and another native of Lviv, Stanis?aw Polakiewicz, became the first officially recognised Polish referee in 1911 the year in which the first Polish Football Federation was founded in Lviv.

The first Polish professional football club, Czarni Lw�w opened here in 1903 and the first stadium, which belonged to Pogo?, in 1913. Another club, Pogo? Lw�w, was four times football champion of Poland (1922, 1923, 1925 and 1926). In the late 1920s as many as four teams from the city played in the Polish Football League (Pogo?, Czarni, Hasmonea and Lechia). Hasmonea was the first Jewish football club in Poland. Several notable figures of Polish football came from the city including Kazimierz G�rski, Ryszard Koncewicz, Micha? Matyas and Wac?aw Kuchar.

Lviv is also the Polish birthplace of other sports. In January 1905 the first Polish ice-hockey match took place there and two years later the first ski-jumping competition was organized in nearby S?awsko. In the same year the first Polish basketball games were organized in Lviv's gymnasiums. In autumn 1887 a gymnasium by Lychakiv Street
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