Monument to Ivan Franko (Lviv)

Ukraine / Lvivska / Lviv
 monument, poet, 1964_construction

Ivan Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Франко) (August 27 1856 – May 28 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, economist, and political activist. He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist movement in western Ukraine. In addition to his own literary work, he also translated the works of William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante, Victor Hugo, Adam Mickiewicz, Goethe and Schiller into the Ukrainian language. Along with Taras Shevchenko, he has had a tremendous impact on modern literary and political thought in Ukraine.
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Coordinates:   49°50'22"N   24°1'16"E
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