Vasyl Nahirnyi
Vasyl Nahirnyi (Ukrainian: Василь Степанович Нагірний; 11 January 1848 – 25 February 1921) was a Ukrainian architect, public figure. BiographyVasyl Nahirnyi was born on 11 January 1848 in Hirne, now the Hrabovets-Duliby rural hromada of Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.[1] In 1871 he graduated from the Lviv Technical Academy, and in 1875 from the Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne. Nahirnyi lived in Zurich, worked in design offices and government agencies in Switzerland.[1][2] From 1882 in Lviv. He co-founded societies, including "Narodna Torhivlia " (1883), "Zoria " (1884), "Dnister " (1892), "Sokil " (1894), "Narodna Hostynytisa", and the Society for the Development of Rus' Art (1898, together with Ivan Trush, Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Yuliian Pankevych). In 1885-1890 he was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Batkivshchyna".[1][2] FamilyFather of architect Yevhen Nahirnyi,[1] great-grandfather of singer Kvitka Cisyk.[3] WorksIn 1898 he participated in the "First Rus' exhibition of art", where he presented his architectural works.[1] The author of more than 200 churches (mostly brick), with forms of neo-Romantic and neo-Byzantine styles and techniques of folk wooden architecture. From 1905 he worked together with his son Yevhen.[1] Nahirnyi is also the author of the People's House in Borshchiv, Ternopil Oblast (1908).[1] MemorialsOn 30 December 2018, a monument to Vasyl Nahirnyi was unveiled in his native village.[4] References
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