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6 unusual facts about Ivan Franko


Hotel Ukrayina

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Ukrainian Brazilian

Their suffering became known in Ukraine and even became the subject of a series of poems, "To Brazil", by the well-known Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko.

Ukrainian Radical Party

The Radical Party was founded in Lviv on October 4, 1890 by a group of Ukrainian activists including the poet Ivan Franko, the publisher Mykhailo Pavlyk, and others.

A third faction which included most of the Radical Party's most prominent members such as Ivan Franko became increasingly disenchanted with socialist ideas and more focussed on national concerns.

Ukrainian Sich Riflemen

This initiative attracted several prominent individuals, who would later also play important roles in the creation of the Sich Riflemen — for example, Petro Franko, Ivan Franko's son.

Viktor Idzio

Other topics where he has produced monographs include such topics as "The Ukrainian diaspora in Russia", Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Lesia Ukrainka, Hryhory Skovoroda, the development of religious thought in Ukraine.


Ivan Trush

Ivan Trush - alongside such figures as ethnographers Volodymyr Hnatyuk, Filaret Kolessa, poet Ivan Franko, the museum's first director Illarion Svientsitsky - played a leading role in the establishment of the Lviv National Museum.

Mikhail Turovsky

Among his well-known works are the cycle Holocaust, The End of an Utopia', many nudes, landscapes and still lifes; illustrations to the works of Ivan Franko, Vasyl Stefanyk, Aleksandr Blok, Sholom-Aleichem, Leon Feuchtwanger, Johannes Becher, and many other writers.


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Ivan Vakarchuk

On November 13, 1990 Ivan Vakarchuk was elected the rector of Lviv State University named after Ivan Franko (current name - Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko) and worked till November 2007.

Nikita Dzhigurda

Dzhigurda's other roles in historical films are prince Andrey Kurbsky, king Charles XII of Sweden and Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko.