Cemetery of the Defenders of Lviv, Lviv

The Cemetery of the Defenders of Lviv, or the Cemetery of Eaglets, is a memorial and a burial place for the Poles who died in Lviv during the hostilities of the Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Soviet War between 1918 and 1920. There are about 3000 graves; some are from the Lwów Eaglets young militia volunteers, after whom that part of the cemetery is named. It was one of the most famous necropolises of the inter-war Poland. The complex was designed by Rudolf Indruch, an student of architecture from the Lviv Polytechnic whose project won the competition. The most visible element was a domed chapel towering over the tombs below.