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 The statue portrays Ivan Fedorov, the first Ukrainian/Russian/Belorussian bookprinter. He lived in Lviv in the middle of the 16th century and also worked in Moscow and Ostrog.  The books he printed used the old Slavic characters and he used the same printing techniques as Guttenberg and Scorina.
 From the statue, the twin towers of the St. Michael Studite Church are visible in the distance. This 17th century building used to be a Carmelite Church and monastery. Later it was closed by Bolsheviks and turned into a warehouse. Studites - the order of the Greek Catholic church - acquired the ruined building in the middle of the 1980s and returned it to its original appearance.

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