Memorial plaque to Hryhoriy Tseglynsky

Hryhoriy Tseglynsky Street – located in the central part of Kalush. It runs from Pidvalna Street to Heroes Square. The street was given its name on December 25, 1990. Residential buildings 1, 3 and 5 were built at the beginning of the 20th century, and residential building No. 2 in the 70s of the 20th century. On building No. 3, where Hryhoriy Tseglynsky lived and worked, in 2003, to the 150th anniversary of his birth, a memorial plaque was unveiled (sculptor Ihor Semak, architect Petro Makogin).

Hryhoriy Ivanovich Tseglynsky (March 9, 1853, Kalush, now Ivano-Frankivsk region – October 23, 1912, Vienna, Austria-Hungary) – Ukrainian Galician public, cultural, economic and political figure, teacher, writer, critic. He graduated from the Stanislaviv Imperial and Royal Gymnasium (1874), studied at the University of Vienna (1874–1879).

After graduating from the University of Vienna, he was a teacher at the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv, simultaneously an editor of "Zori" (1887–1888) and an organizer of the theater "Ruska Besida".

From 1888 to 1895, he was the head of parallel Ukrainian classes at the Polish-language gymnasium. From 1895 to 1910, he was the director of the state gymnasium in Przemysl with Ukrainian as the language of instruction. Among other things, he contributed to the founding of the Ukrainian Institute for Girls in Przemysl in 1903.

He took an active part in the work of the societies "Ukrainian Girls' Institute" and "Prosvita". He made efforts to establish cooperative and economic institutions in Przemyśl, such as "Vira" and "Narodnyi Dim".

In 1907 and 1911 he was elected ambassador from the 61st district (Przemyśl region) to the Austrian Parliament in Vienna (member of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Club).

Reburied in the Ukrainian cemetery in Przemyśl according to his will.