It starts at the western portion of the Mickiewicz Square and at first runs parallel to Nezalezhnist Street (stometrivka) then makes a wide turn northward towards the city's Railway Terminal.

The street here is narrower with a roadside parking allowed and small sidewalks on both sides.

In 1892 it was named Ulica trzeciego maja (Street of the 3rd May) after the Polish Constitution adopted on May 3, 1791.

Since then every year on September 29 various festivities take place near the administration building Bily Dim.

Along the street also is located cinema theater "Lumier", few buildings of the Medical University, the Ukrainian Scientific-Research Institute of Mountain Forestry, building of a former school among the teachers of which was a Ukrainian writer Dmytro Makohon, father of Iryna Vilde.