Schukyn

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Schukyn
Жукин
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Schukyn (Ukraine)
Schukyn
Schukyn
Basic data
Oblast : Kiev Oblast
Rajon : Vyshhorod district
Height : 100 m
Area : 6.3 km²
Residents : 1,117 (2006)
Population density : 177 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 07341
Area code : +380 4596
Geographic location : 50 ° 49 '  N , 30 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '39 "  N , 30 ° 41' 27"  E
KOATUU : 3221882801
Administrative structure : 2 villages
Address: вул. Шевченка 27
07341 с. Жукин
Statistical information
Schukyn (Kiev Oblast)
Schukyn
Schukyn
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Schukyn ( Ukrainian Жукин ; Russian Жукин Schukin ) is a village in Vyshhorod Raion in the northeast of the Ukrainian Kiev Oblast with about 1100 inhabitants.

Schukyn is located on the banks of the Desna , a left tributary of the Dnieper , in Vyshhorod Raion near the border with Brovary Raion and Chernihiv Oblast . The Vyshhorod district center, which can be reached via the P-69 regional road , is 36 km southwest of Schukyn. The neighboring village of Voropajiw is 6 km south of the village.

The village, founded in 1650, is the center of the district council of the same name , to which, in addition to Schukyn, the village of Rowschi ( Ровжі ) with about 40 inhabitants belongs.

Sons and daughters of the village

  • Leonid Tanjuk (1938–2016), Ukrainian director, theater director and politician as well as Soviet dissident

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the village on the website of the Verkhovna Rada