Sculpture of the composer has been made of bronze, while the pedestal and paving are granite. The monument is two and a half meters tall and stands on Shevchenko Avenue. The pro-ject has been realized by the sculptor Serhii Oleshko and architect Mykhailo Yagolnyk.
The Day had already reported that the idea to honor Ivasiuk, the author of Chervona Ruta and over a 100 other songs, 50 instrumental works and music for several plays, with the sculptural image of him in the very heart of Lviv belonged to the leader of the Okean Elzy band Sviatoslav Vakarchuk. The place for the monument was suggested by him, too, five years ago, as he proposed to erect it along the shortest way from the conservatory to the philharmonic society, which is used by all local teachers and students of music every day. Costs of the monument were also paid by Vakarchuk.
The monument unveiling ceremony gathered a lot of people. Those present included the composer’s family, in particular his sister Halyna Ivasiuk-Krysa. Mayor of Lviv Andrii Sadovy, deputy mayor for cultural affairs Vasyl Kosiv, rector of the Franko University Ivan Vakarchuk, members of the city and regional councils came there to honor Ivasiuk’s memory with their presence.
Sviatoslav Vakarchuk said at the unveiling: “Lviv was, probably, a special city for Ivasiuk, as he developed here as a composer, studied in this city, walked these streets... It is possible that Ivasiuk owed those emotions that made his music known over the world to Lviv, too. May his memory forever live in our hearts, and may this monument be a place where young people meet and sing his songs, as well as their own. May it be a creative and merry place, as full of energy as Ivasiuk was.”
