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unusual facts about Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive


Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive

A hasty counterattack by the 1st Panzer and 8th Panzer Divisions took place, accompanied by elements of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Galizien (1st Ukrainian).


Coffee table book

One of the most famous was the Scottish Book created by mathematicians working on the University of Lvov.

Drzonów

Most of the local inhabitants have been resettled to within post-war Germany, while the village itself was repopulated with Poles, mostly people expelled by the Soviet Union from the village of Rychcice near Lwów (modern Lvov, Ukraine).

God Save the Tsar!

In 1842, English author Henry F. Chorley wrote God, the Omnipotent! set to Lvov's tune and published in 19th and 20th century hymnals as the Russian Hymn.

Lesnoye Sanatorium

Among the cadets trained here were many who became well–known writers, artists and composers, including Vladimir Etush, Andrei Eshpai, S. Lvov, E. Rzhevskaya, and A. Troyanovsky.

Prince Alexey Lvov

Alexey Lvov began his career as a deputy governor of Nizhny Novgorod (1610), Rylsk (1615), Astrakhan (1618–20).

Tadeusz Kassern

Born in Lvov, he studied at the conservatory of the Polish Music Society in Lviv and later at the conservatory in Poznań.

Yezupil

This territory was divided into four administrative districts (oblasts): Lvov, Stanislav, Drohobych and Tarnopol (the latter including parts of Volhynia) of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.


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