Semantic aspects of architectural dominants transformation in Western Ukrainian cities in the 1940s–1950s

This article focuses on the semantic aspects of architectural dominants transformation in Western Ukraine in the second half of the 1940s - 1950s. On the example of cities-regional centres, such as Rivne, Lutsk and Ternopil, the so-called "socialist reconstruction", which created new dominants in the urban silhouette, embodying the Soviet ideological principles in the architectural space is examined