Lyceum and Gymnasium of Ursuline Sisters (14 Ivan Franko St.)
Private lyceum and gymnasium of Ursuline Sisters were located on the old 14, the Kaminsky Street.
They had all rights of the state school. The school was opened in 1908 as a six-year female lyceum, in
1911 school was re-qualified in a real gymnasium and after the independence of Poland, in 1921,
this school transformed into gymnasium specializing in foreign languages. In the academic year
1933/34, the gymnasium entered of the newly reformed school system. Students of lyceum classes
were divided into two groups, those who studied liberal arts and those who studied natural science.
The school building consisted of two houses, located in parallel, connected in the middle by a two-
story transition. In the three-story frontal house were monastic rooms, school, teacher's room,
office, reading room and a medical room. On the floors of the transition was a boarding school. In
the second four-story building were a gymnasium and a lyceum. In the same building on the second
floor was also a high three-story chapel with a distinguished choir, where Yolanta Tlochynska had
been worked. Youth organizations of different flows functioned at the school. Polish scouts had a
special care.
Since 1945, this building was a boys’ gymnasium, which in 1954 was merged with a girls’ school №1.
Since 1963 this structure is occupied by a school №3 with Polish and Russian languages training.
Today, more than 800 students are studying Ukrainian, Polish, Russian and English at this school.