Main Railway Station, Lviv
A station of 1904 combining historicism and Secession; at its opening, the largest station in Austria-Hungary.
The new station was built on the site of the 1861 station to Wladyslaw Sadlowski's design: according to ZAXID.NET, construction ran in 1899–1903, according to lviv.travel, from 1902. It opened on 26 March 1904 and was then the largest railway station in Austria-Hungary. The building combines historicism and Secession; the trainshed over five platforms was built in 1903 under the direction of Ludwik Wierzbicki, and the portal of the main entrance is adorned with statues by Antoni Popiel and Petro Viitovych. In 1915 russian troops retreating from Lviv set the station on fire; in the Second World War it was damaged by bombing. A second storey was added during the rebuilding; according to lviv.travel the rebuilding was completed in 1957, according to ZAXID.NET (2021) it lasted from 1945 to 1951. In 2003 the building was restored. In the first months of russia's full-scale invasion the station received 130 thousand people a day; on 18 April 2022 russian missiles struck near the city's railway facilities.
Working infrastructure: photograph the concourse, not the tracks and trains.