City Square is named after Eugene Fentsyk (1844-1903) who is a Transcarpathian educational activist and writer of Russophile direction, a Greek Catholic priest. Since 1885 he was also a publisher and editor of “Lystok” that published in mixed Russian and Church Slavonic language. E. Fentsyk known as the author of poetic drama “Conquest of Uzhgorod” and was one of the founders of the local drama.
