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Sviatoshyn

Sviatoshyn
Святошин
Neighborhood of Kiev
Sviatoshyn is located in Ukraine Kiev
Sviatoshyn
Sviatoshyn
Sviatoshyn within the Kiev city area.
Coordinates: 50°27′25″N 30°22′21″E / 50.45694°N 30.37250°E / 50.45694; 30.37250Coordinates: 50°27′25″N 30°22′21″E / 50.45694°N 30.37250°E / 50.45694; 30.37250
Country
City council
Municipality
 Ukraine
 Kiev
COA Sviatoshynskyi, Kyiv, Ukraine.svg Sviatoshyn Raion
First mentioned 1619
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code 03115, 03179
Area code(s) +380 44

Sviatoshyn (Svyatoshyn, Ukrainian pronunciation: [su̯ja'toʃɪn], Ukrainian: Свято́шин, Свято́шино, Свято́шине) is a historical neighborhood and a suburb of Ukraine's capital Kiev that is located on the western edge of the city area, in an eponymous municipality - the Sviatoshyn Raion.

Previously it was a dacha village (summer colony) in a pine grove which was included into the Kiev city council area in 1919.

The neighbourhood is located in the North-East of the Dnieper Upland, in the western a part of Kiev city's area.

The suburb is situated on the both sides of Kiev's Peremohy Avenue () along its western part. Sviatoshyn neighborhood borders the Nyvka River () (Borshchahivka River) in the west, that flows through Sviatoshyn Ponds () there and falls into the Irpin River of the Dnieper basin. There is the Sviatoshyn Forest Park () beginning on the opposite side of the Nyvka River.

The east boundary of the suburb is the Kiev - Kovel railway. There are Bilychi (), Akademmistechko () and Aviamistechko () neighbourhoods in the north of Sviatoshyn and Mykilska () Borshchahivka neighbourhood, Skarbovyi forest () terrain, Zhovtneve () village and Petropavlivska Borshchahivka village in the south.


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