Kyiv Council names street after author of Uniate iconostasis in US temple

Jacques Hnizdovsky. Photo: Unian.press

Kyiv City Council deputies have renamed 11 more streets whose names were linked to Russia or the USSR, reports the city's mayor Vitaliy Klitschko. One of the streets previously named Magnitogorska will now be named after American painter Jacques Hnizdovsky.

Jacques Hnizdovsky was born to the family of a deacon of the Greek Catholic parish in the village of Pylypche.

As a young man he was charged by the Polish police with being a member of an illegal circle of Ukrainian nationalists, but he was cleared of all charges. In 1949, Hnizdovsky moved to the United States and started his career as a painter. His works were related, in particular, to religious themes. Jacques Hnizdovsky created the iconostasis for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Kerhonkson (USA).

There are already Hnizdovsky streets in Ukraine: in 1993, Levandovska Street in Lviv was named after him, and there is also a street of the artist in Borschiv.

As earlier reported, in Kharkiv it was proposed to rename a street named after St. Matrona of Moscow.

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