Svyatoshyn
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Sviatoshyn Святошин |
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| Neighborhood of Kiev | |
 Sviatoshyn
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| Coordinates: 50°27′25″N 30°22′21″E / 50.45694°N 30.37250°ECoordinates: 50°27′25″N 30°22′21″E / 50.45694°N 30.37250°E | |
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Country City council Municipality |
 Ukraine Kiev Sviatoshyn Raion
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| 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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