Vasyl Nahirnyi

Vasyl Nahirnyi was a Ukrainian architect, public figure.

Biography

Vasyl Nahirnyi was born on 11 January 1848 in Hirne, now the Hrabovets-Duliby rural hromada of Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
In 1871 he graduated from the Lviv Technical Academy, and in 1875 from the Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne. Nahirnyi lived in Zurich, worked in design offices and government agencies in Switzerland.
From 1882 in Lviv. He co-founded societies, including "", "", "", "", "Narodna Hostynytisa", and the . In 1885-1890 he was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Batkivshchyna".

Father of architect Yevhen Nahirnyi, great-grandfather of singer Kvitka Cisyk.

In 1898 he participated in the "First Rus' exhibition of art", where he presented his architectural works.
The author of more than 200 churches, with forms of neo-Romantic and neo-Byzantine styles and techniques of folk wooden architecture. From 1905 he worked together with his son Yevhen.
Nahirnyi is also the author of the People's House in Borshchiv, Ternopil Oblast.

On 30 December 2018, a monument to Vasyl Nahirnyi was unveiled in his native village.