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Culture of Lviv


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sis, Hugo Steinhaus, Karol Borsuk, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Mark Kac and many other notable mathematicians would gather there. The caf� building now houses the Universalny bank at 27 Taras Shevchenko Prospekt (prewar Polish street name: ulica Akademicka). Mathematician Zygmunt Janiszewski died in Lviv on January 3, 1920.

Print and media

The most popular newspapers in Lviv are "Vysokiy Zamok", "Ekspres", "Lvivska hazeta", "Ratusha", Subotna poshta", "Hazeta po-lvivsky", "Postup" and others. Popular magazines include "Chetver" and "?". The Polish community continues to publish the oldest continually published newspaper in central Europe known as �Gazeta Lwowska�.

The Lviv oblast television company transmits on channel 12. There are 3 private television channels operating from Lviv: "Liuks", "NTA" and "ZIK".

There are 17 regional and all-Ukrainian radio stations operating in the city.

A number of information agencies exist in the city such as "ZIK", �Zaxid.net�, �???-info�, �?????????? ??????� and others.

Lviv is home to one of the oldest Polish-language newspapers Gazeta Lwowska which was first published in 1811 and still exists in a bi�weekly form. Lviv is the center of promotion of the Ukrainian Latin alphabet(Latynka).

Among other publications were such titles as

�    Kurier Lwowski: associated with people's movement which existed from 1883 to 1935. Among the writers who cooperated with it were such renowned names as Eliza Orzeszkowa, Jan Kasprowicz, Boles?aw Limanowski, W?adys?aw Orkan as well as Ivan Franko,

�    S?owo Lwowskie (1895�1939): A right-wing daily which cooperated with W?adys?aw Reymont, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Kazimierz Tetmajer, Leopold Staff, Jerzy ?u?awski and Gabriela Zapolska. Among its editors-in-chief was Stanis?aw Grabski. In the early 20th century S?owo's circulation was 20,000 and it was the first Polish newspaper to publish a serialisation of
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