Sviatoshynskyi District

Sviatoshynskyi Raion (Ukrainian: Святошинський район, Sviatoshynskyi Raion) is an urban district in the city of Kyiv located at the western part of city. The district was created in 2001 after renaming the former Leningrad District. It borders four other districts in Kyiv such as Podilskyi District, Obolonskyi District, Solomianskyi District, Shevchenkivskyi District as well as the Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion and city of Irpin that administratively are part of Kyiv Oblast. Its name raion takes from one of its historical neighborhoods.

For information on the Kyiv Oblast raion, see Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion.
Sviatoshyn District

Святошинський район
Urban district in Kyiv
Les Kurbas Avenue
Coat of arms
Country Ukraine
OblastKyiv City Municipality
Area
 • Total110 km2 (40 sq mi)
Population
 • Total318.4
 • Density2,894/km2 (7,500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Metro stationsAkademmistechko, Zhytomyrska, Sviatoshyn
Websitesvyatoshin.kyiv-city.gov.ua

Historical neighborhoods

The raion includes number of neighborhoods Svyatoshyn, Borshchahivka, Akademmistechko, Aviamistechko, Bilychi, Bratska Borshchahivka and many others.

Kyiv-Svyatoshyn Raion

The governing bodies of the adjacent Kyiv-Svyatoshyn Raion of the Kyiv Oblast are situated in the Sviatoshyn Raion of Kyiv as the former oblast raion is purely suburban and lacks a distinctive center settlement.[1]

See also

References
  1. The Kyiv Oblast is administratively independent form the Kyiv city, but Kyiv historically hosts its governing bodies and other institutions.

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