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Kyiv
The area of the capital is nearly
800 sq. km. It’s population has
started growing recently and at the
beginning of 2004 was 2611
thousand people, most of them
Ukrainians but also many
Russians, Jews, Bilorussians and
Poles. The city is spread on both
banks in the middle of the river
Dnipro. Central districts of the
capital are situated on the Kviv
plain that before Dnipro is
forming it’s high Right Bank.
There are many deep ravines in the
city that divide it, into separate
Highlands that are called mountains
— Starokyivska, Pecherska,
Shcherkavytsya, Khorevytsya and
others. The new part of the city, is
situated on the lowland left bank of
Dnipro. There were no buildings
here before 1917 and the territory
belonged to the Chernigiv region.
The historic part of the city consists
of the places that formed hundreds of
years ago: Podil, Pechersk, Lypky,
Zwynets, Obolon, Klov, Gonchary
and others.
Pechersk
Podil
Obolon
Lypky
Gonchary
Kyiv is a large industrial centre of
Ukraine, the leading industries being
mechanical engineering and metallurgy.
The other highly developed areas
include chemical and transport,
mechanical engineering, radioelectronics, and production of planes,
trawlers, and artificial stones. The
strong energy base aids the
development of industry.
Bila Tserkva
Kyiv is a large centre of car, rail, air
and river ways. Due to the
concentration of large economic
potential and city population Kyiv
became a large industrial centre
uniting a huge agglomeration of
towns around it (Bila Tserkva,
Vasylkiv, Fastiv, Boryspil, Irpin and
others).
Vasylkiv
Fastiv
Boryspil
The Ukrainian capital is one of the
largest European scientific and
cultural centers. There is a wide web
of scientific establishments, higher
education establishments, medium
specialized schools, lyceums,
gymnasiums, places of culture and
art.
Mariyinskyy
palace
Volodymyrskyy cathedral
Sofia cathedral
Golden Gate
Among the most famous places of the city is
Sofia cathedral (1017–31), the Golden Gate
(1017–24), Vydubytskyy monastery (XI
century), Kyevo-Pecherska Lavra (1051),
Kyrylivska church (middle ofKyrylivska
XII century),
church
Bratskyy monastery
Kyevo-Pecherska
Lavra (1616), Volodymyrskyy
cathedral (1862–96), Mariyinskyy palace
(1745–52) and many others.
Vydubytskyy monastery
Bratskyy monastery