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ARTICLES RELATED TO Kiev - History | | | |  Kiev - History: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - HistoryKiev is one of the most ancient and important cities of the region, the center of the Rus' civilization, survivor of numerous wars, purges, and genocides. Many historical and architectural landmarks are preserved or reconstructed in the city, which is thought to have existed as early as the fifth century. With the exact time of city foundation being hard to determine, May 1982 was chosen to celebrate the city's 1,500th anniversary. During the eighth and ninth centuries Kiev was an outpost of the Khazar empire. Starting from some point during ...
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| | | | Kiev - History: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - Geography and climate Kiev is located on both sides of the Dnieper river, which flows south through the city towards the Black Sea. Its geographic co-ordinates are 50°27′N 30°30′E. Geographically, Kiev belongs to the Polissya natural zone (a part of the European mixed woods). However, the city's unique landscape distinguishes it from the surrounding region. The older right-bank (western) part of Kiev is represented by numerous woody hills, ravines and small rivers (now mostly extinct). It is a part of the larger Prydniprovska (near-Dnieper) upland ad ...
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| | | | Kiev - History: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - Geography and climate Kiev is located on both sides of the Dnieper river, which flows south through the city towards the Black Sea. Its geographic co-ordinates are 50°27′N 30°30′E. Geographically, Kiev belongs to the Polesia natural zone (a part of the European mixed woods). However, the city's unique landscape distinguishes it from the surrounding region. The older right-bank (western) part of Kiev is represented by numerous woody hills, ravines and small rivers (now mostly extinct). It is a part of the larger Prydniprovska (near-Dnieper) upland adj ...
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| | | | Kiev - History: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - Subdivisions of Kiev Administratively, the city is divided into raions, which have their own units of central and local government with jurisdiction over a limited scope of affairs. There are 10 raions presently. For details on administration, see Legal status and local government of Kiev.
Besides these, Kiev is informally divided into historical neighborhoods, each housing from 5,000 to 100,000 people.
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| | | | Kiev - History: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - Modern Kiev Like many other large cities of the former Soviet Union, modern Kiev is a mix of the old and the new, seen in everything from the buildings to the stores to the people themselves. Experiencing a fast growth rate between the 1970s and the mid-'90s, the city has continued its consistent growth after the turn of the millennium. As a result, Kiev's "downtown" is a dotted picture of new, modern buildings (known as novostroika) amongst the pale yellows, blues and grays of the older apartments. Urban sprawl has been gradually reducing while ...
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| | | | Kiev - History: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - Transportation
Kiev - Local transportation.
Since Soviet times, the publicly owned and operated Kiev Metro system remains the fastest, the most convenient and affordable network that covers most, but not all, of the city. The metro is permanently expanding towards the city limits to cover the growing demand.
While the other kinds of once public-only city transport have suffered the partial collapse. First of all, this regards the public bus service that operates the weared-out units and fails to maintain schedules. Publi ...
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| | | | Kiev - History: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - Attractions It is said that one can walk from one end of Kiev to the other in the summertime without leaving the shade of its many trees. Most characteristic are the horse-chestnuts (Ukrainian: каштани, "kashtany").
Kiev is known as a green city, with two botanical gardens and numerous large and small parks. Notable among these are the World War Two Museum, which offers both indoor and outdoor displays of military history and equipment surrounded by verdant hills overlooking the Dnieper river; the Hidropark, located on an island in the riv ...
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| | | | Kiev - History: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - Modern Kiev Like many other large cities of the former Soviet Union, modern Kiev is a mix of the old and the new, seen in everything from the buildings to the stores to the people themselves. Experiencing a fast growth rate between the 1970s and the mid-'90s, the city has continued its consistent growth after the turn of the millenium. As a result, Kiev's "downtown" is a dotted picture of new, modern buildings (known as novostroika) amongst the pale yellows, blues and grays of the older apartments. Urban sprawl has been gradually reducing while p ...
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| | | | Kiev - History: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - Kiev or Kyiv? Kiev is the traditional English name for the city, but the Ukrainianized version Kyiv is gaining usage. The earliest known English-language reference is to Kiovia, in English traveller Joseph Marshall's book Travels (London, 1772).
The name Kiev was used in print as early as 1823 in the English travelogue New Russia: Journey from Riga to the Crimea by way of Kiev, by Mary Holderness. By 1883, the Oxford English Dictionary included Kiev in a quotation. This name was established on the ba ...
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| | | | Kiev - History: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - Subdivisions of Kiev Administratively, the city is divided into raions, which have their own units of central and local government with jurisdiction over a limited scope of affairs. There are 10 raions presently. For details on administration, see Legal status and local government of Kiev.
Besides these, Kiev is informally divided into historical neighborhoods, each housing as many as 5,000 to 100,000 people.
The natural first level of subdivision of the city is into the ...
See also:Kiev, Kiev - Geography and climate, Kiev - History, Kiev - Legal status and local government, Kiev - Subdivisions of Kiev, Kiev - Modern Kiev, Kiev - Structures, Kiev - Transportation, Kiev - Local transportation, Kiev - Railways, Kiev - Air, Kiev - Attractions, Kiev - Views of Kiev, Kiev - Universities, Kiev - Kiev or Kyiv? Read more here: » Kiev: Encyclopedia II - Kiev - Subdivisions of Kiev |
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