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Center for Urban History
6 Bohomoltsia Str. Lviv 79005, Ukraine

Problem of the Ukrainian university

What in the late 19th century looked like a demand by Ruthenian students at Lviv University to study in their native language evolved in a few years into a nationwide struggle to open a Ukrainian university. The range of political practices grew just as rapidly: from rallies and petitions to organized boycotts, occupation of premises, street battles, and negotiations with ministers. The situation was further complicated by the fact that the university in question was located in Lviv, a city symbolically important to both Ukrainians and Poles.

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The issue of a Ukrainian university in Lviv

 What in the late 19th century looked like a demand by Ruthenian students at Lviv University to study in their native language evolved in a few years into a nationwide struggle to open a Ukrainian university.
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Students and the Struggle for the Status of Lviv University (1909)

 The issue of the University of Lviv was part of a broader confrontation over the status of the Ukrainian language and thus an element of national competition between Poles and Ukrainians. Students, as the most "progressive" and active part of society, were at the forefront of this struggle.
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The murder of the student Adam Kotsko (1910)

 The murder of Adam Kotsko took place in 1910 amidst the riots that broke out over the possible opening of a Ukrainian university. The student was one of the leaders of the Ukrainian student movement here. After the bloody culmination, the struggles switched to a more legal political course.
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A Ukrainian demonstration in memory of Adam Kotsko (1912)

 On 1 July 1912, a Ukrainian mourning demonstration took place in Lviv, organized in memory of Adam Kotsko, a Ukrainian student at Lviv University killed during Ukrainian-Polish student clashes two years earlier. This event is a rare example of Ukrainian national demonstrations in Lviv in the early 20th century that turned into a conflict with the police.