Sviatoshynskyi District
Sviatoshyn Raion
Святошинський район | |
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 Les Kurbas Avenue | |
 Coat of arms | |
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| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Kiev City Municipality |
| Area | |
| • Total | 110 km2 (40 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 318.4 |
| • Density | 2,894/km2 (7,500/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Metro stations | Akademmistechko, Zhytomyrska, Sviatoshyn |
| Website | svyatoshin.kyiv-city.gov.ua |
Sviatoshyn Raion (Ukrainian: Святошинський район, Sviatoshynskyi Raion) is a raion in the city of Kiev located at the western part of city. Raion was created in 2001 after renaming the former Leningrad Raion. It borders four other raions in Kiev such as Podil Raion, Obolon Raion, Solomianka Raion, Shevchenko Raion as well as the Kiev-Sviatoshyn Raion and city of Irpin that administratively are part of Kiev Oblast. Its name raion takes from one of its historical neighborhoods.
Historical neighborhoods
The raion includes number of neighborhoods Svyatoshyn, Borshchahivka, Akademmistechko, Aviamistechko, Bilychi, Bratska Borshchahivka and many others.
Kyiv-Svyatoshyn Raion intallations
The governing bodies of the adjacent Kyiv-Svyatoshyn Raion of the Kiev Oblast are situated in the Sviatoshyn Raion of Kiev as the former oblast raion is purely suburban and lacks a distinctive center settlement.[1]
See also
References
- ^ The Kiev Oblast is administratively independent form the Kiev city, but Kiev historically hosts its governing bodies and other institutions.
External links
- Brief history of the Obolon and Minskyi districts
- Template:Uk icon Sviatoshynskyi Raion administration website
- Template:Uk icon Святошин in Wiki-Encyclopedia Kiev
50°27′18″N 30°22′05″E / 50.45500°N 30.36806°E
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