Boyarka
Boyarka | ||
Боярка | ||
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Basic data | ||
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Oblast : | Kiev Oblast | |
Rajon : | Kiev-Svyatozhyn district | |
Height : | 186 m | |
Area : | 13.00 km² | |
Residents : | 35,586 (2015) | |
Population density : | 2,737 inhabitants per km² | |
Postcodes : | 08150-08157 | |
Area code : | +380 4498 | |
Geographic location : | 50 ° 20 ′ N , 30 ° 17 ′ E | |
KOATUU : | 3222410300 | |
Administrative structure : | 1 city | |
Mayor : | Taras Dobrivskyi | |
Address: | вул. Білогородська 13 08 150 м. Боярка |
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Website : | City website | |
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Boyarka ( Ukrainian and Russian Боярка ) is a city in Ukraine in the Kiev Oblast with about 35,000 inhabitants (2015).
The city is located in the south of the Kiev-Svyatoschyn district on the M 05 / E 95 highway, about 15 kilometers southwest of the state capital Kiev .
history
The place has been settled for a long time. In the times of the Kievan Rus there was a Slavic settlement ('Budajiwka') here. The Budaivka settlement was first mentioned in the early 16th century. In 1956 the city of Boyarka was created through the merger of the settlements Boyarka, Budajiwka and Nowa Tarasiwka.
Population development
1923 | 1926 | 1939 | 1959 | 1970 | 1979 | 1989 | 2001 | 2005 | 2015 |
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836 | 4088 | 8,635 | 19,465 | 28,991 | 34,197 | 38,773 | 35,968 | 35,339 | 35,586 |
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Personalities
- The Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky , author of the cult novel How Steel Was Hardened , the action of which takes place near Boyarka, comes from Boyarka. In the city there is a museum about the person and work of Ostrovsky.
- Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident Ivan Kovalenko lived in Boyarka for most of his life.
- The Ukrainian-American musician and actor Eugene Hütz was born in Boyarka.
gallery
Web links
Commons : Boiarka - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
- ↑ Via Ivan Kovalenko on the festival's official website; accessed on March 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)