Kobylianska (Кобилянської)
Iancu Flondor
Herrengasse
The photo is by respublica_jah, taken in 2008.
![Olha Kobylianska](https://martinblack.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/pic_K_O_Kobylianska-Olha-1899-photo.jpg)
Kobylianska (Кобилянської)
Named after the writer and feminist Olha Kobylianska (1863 – 1942) who lived in the city in the late 1800s, Kobylianska is a pedestrianised street that runs for 3/4 of a kilometre through the centre of Chernivtsi.
My guess is the street serves as a promenade, much like Barcelona’s Ramblas. On a sultry summer weekend night I expect Kobylianska is full of people out walking, stopping for a drink, checking each other out. I read somewhere that smoking is banned on the street and you’ll get a stern telling off if you were to light up a cigarette.
Iancu Flondor
The street’s Romanian name was given to one Iancu Flondor, a politician who campaigned for the union of Bukovina with Romania. He died in the city in 1924.
![Iancu Flondor street](https://martinblack.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/cernauti.jpg)
(photo borrowed with thanks from România în imagini de ieri şi azi)
Herrengasse
This from Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory:
My hunch from above was correct, it was (is) a promenade, a coffee and cake at the the fashionable Cafe Habsburg or a schnapps and the day’s newspaper at the Cafe de l’Europe.
![Herrengasse](https://martinblack.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/herrengasse.jpg)
Street on map
Streets so far
This is one of a series of posts on Chernivtsi street names
Banner image by Andrewhv