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The Faina Petryakova Science Center for Judaica and Jewish Art has been founded on March 23, 2005. The Center is based in Lviv, Ukraine. It has been set up to commemorate the life of Faina Petryakova, a distinguished professor of the Lviv Academy of Arts, recognized figure in the field of ethnography in Ukraine and beyond, and a senior researcher of the Insitute of Ethnography at the Lviv branch office of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Doctor Petryakova passed away in 2002, leaving behind a remarkable scientific legacy worthy of her stature as a renowned scholar in such field as Ukrainian glass, porcelain, ceramics and Ukrainian Judaica.