Boyarka

Boyarka (Ukrainian and Russian Боярка ) is a city in the Ukraine in the Kiev Oblast with 34 264 inhabitants ( 2013).

The city is located in the south of Rajon Kiev Swjatoschyn on the highway about 15 kilometers southwest of the provincial capital Kiev.

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History

The place has long been settled. In times of Kievan Rus here there was a Slavic settlement ( ' Budajiwka '). The settlement Budajiwka was mentioned at the beginning of the 16th century for the first time. In 1956, the city Boyarka created by the merger of settlements Boyarka, Budajiwka and Nowa Tarasiwka.

Population Development

Source: 1923-1989; 2001-2013

Personalities

• Nikolai Ostrovsky, Soviet writer, author of the cult novel How the Steel Was Tempered, whose action takes place in the near Boyarka. In the city is the Museum of Ostrovsky.

Gallery

Zeremonialhaus

Residential areas

View from the office building of the engineering plant

Department store

Municipal Museum

Forester

Post office