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The bodies keep the score in Lviv

9 April 2023

5:31 PM

9 April 2023

5:31 PM

Lviv, Ukraine

At the Lychakiv cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv the bodies keep the score.

Within its confines the more than 300,000 graves offer a tangled insight into the labyrinthine history of this eastern European city that even now goes by four different names.

There are Polish generals, mathematicians and philosophers; Ukrainian composers, theologians and playwrights; Soviet and Russian aviators, inventors and academics.

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