Boyarka

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Bojarka (disambiguation) .

Boyarka
Боярка
	Boyarka
Basic data
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 Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 45 ″  N , 30 ° 17 ′ 19 ″  E
KOATUU :	3222410300
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Taras Dobrivskyi
Address:	вул. Білогородська 13 08 150 м. Боярка
Website :	City website
Statistical information
Boyarka

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

Panorama Boyarka

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
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

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  St. Michael's Church

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  Ceremonial house

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  Residential areas

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  View from the office building of the machine building

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  Department store

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  Municipal Museum

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  Forestry

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  Post office

Web links

Commons : Boiarka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
2. ↑ Via Ivan Kovalenko on the festival's official website; accessed on March 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)