Lviv City Council asks president to support museum

Lviv—Lviv City Mayor Andrii Sadovy and leaders of all the Lviv City Council factions have appealed to Viktor Yushchenko with a request to help them set up the “Museum on Loncki Street” under the aegis of the Institute of National Memory. The deputies ask the president to order the Security Service of Ukraine, which owns the building, to carry out the necessary repairs so as to enable the museum to be fully operational. Once the museum is created, the Lviv City Council will transfer all available materials and will facilitate its operation in every possible way.

On June 28, 2009, the Liberation Movement Research Center and the Security Service of Ukraine opened the first part of the memorial exhibit “Prison on Loncki Street” commemorating the victims of the occupation regimes. The building on Bandera Street where the prison was is 85 years old. It was used as a prison by Polish, German, and Soviet regimes. After Ukraine proclaimed its independence, an SBU pre-trial prison was set up there.