Lviv
Meaning
A city and raion, the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine.
An oblast in western Ukraine.
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According to the World Bank classification Lviv is a middle-income city.
A considerable scientific potential is concentrated in the city: by the number of doctors of sciences, candidates of sciences, scientific organizations Lviv is the fourth city in Ukraine.
After the Red Army recaptured Lviv in the Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive of 1944, Banach returned to the University and helped re-establish it after the war years.
Also Lviv is one of the leaders of software export in Eastern Europe with expected sector grow by 20%.
Apart from the Lviv Opera it has symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras and the Trembita Chorus.
As the people's commissar to the high command of the southern front, Stalin was determined to take the then Polish city of Lwów (now Lviv in Ukraine).