The lands of the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district adjoin the western city border of Kiev. The length of this border is 60 kilometers. The administrative center is the city of Kiev. But the city itself is an independent unit and is not part of the district. This is the most densely populated part of the region.
Geographical position
Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district of the Kiev region is located in a picturesque forest strip, gradually turning into a forest-steppe. Small rivers Irpen, Nyvka, Bucha flow through its territory. The terrain is slightly hilly. It has many small ponds that give it a natural charm.
Along the valleys of the Irpen and Bucha rivers, partly preserved old forests, which in ancient times covered the territory of the region. There are also steppe plots, mostly plowed and used for agricultural crops. The lands of the district, which is a suburb of the largest city of Ukraine - Kiev, are used by its population for summer cottages, as places for recreation and leisure.
Climatic conditions
The climate in the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district is temperate continental. Winters here are mild and not very cold. The average winter temperature is –3.5 degrees. The coldest time is January. Summer is warm, soft, with an average temperature of 25-28 degrees.
Humidity is relatively high and amounts to 65% in summer and up to 85% in winter. Precipitation is up to 619 mm per year. The climate as a whole is very comfortable. The absence of large enterprises in the district makes it attractive for living.
Administrative division
The district comprises 52 settlements, of which 2 cities of regional subordination - Vishnevoe and Boyarka. One village called Shepherds and 49 small and large villages of the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district, included in 25 village councils.
The area is located on the territory of 726 square kilometers, it is only 2.6% of the area of the territory of Kiev region. The Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district is located in the center of the region, embracing Kiev in a semicircle from the western side. It borders only with the urban areas of Kiev and the region. It is surrounded by Vasilkovsky, Borispolsky, Vyshgorodsky, Brovarsky, Makarovsky, Borodyansky, Obukhov districts.
Industry and Agriculture
There are no significant minerals in the district. Here were built and worked several brick factories in Muzich and Foresters. The industry is represented by the production of building materials. Currently, large-scale construction of residential houses and elite cottage villages is underway in the region.
As a suburb of Kiev, the district plays the role of supplying the big city with food and agricultural products. Horticulture, crop production, vegetable growing, dairy and beef cattle breeding were greatly developed.
In the village of Novosyolki of the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district, the famous Institute of Horticulture of Ukraine is located. Here they grow seedlings of elite fruit trees that grow in many parts of the country.
History
Favorable natural conditions, mild and warm climate, an abundance of water, fertile soils made the territory of the region, including the region, attractive for human settlement. BC Scythian tribes lived on the lands of the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district, as evidenced by the ancient settlement in the area of the village of Khotovo.
At the beginning of the first millennium AD, a gradual settlement of the area by early Slavic tribes began. The founders of Kievan Rus, a meadow, also lived here. According to ancient chronicles, it was in this area that the legendary Belgorod was located, to which historians gave the name Belgorod-Kiev to avoid confusion.
As scientists suggest, it was in Belgorod-Kiev that the residence of the Kiev princes was located, and the city was under the control of their heirs. But the Tatar-Mongol invasion, which literally wiped out more than one settlement from the face of the Earth, did not spare Belgorod-Kiev. Nowadays, on the territory of the legendary city is the modern village of Belogorodka.
The history of the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district is closely connected with the history of Kiev. The formation, prosperity and extinction of Kievan Rus, the invasion of the Polish and Lithuanian invaders, reunification with Russia as a bright page went through the history of the region.
Together with the city, the area survived the occupation by German troops in the First World War, the 1917 Revolution. The civil war, the liberation from the Germans, the complete devastation in the twenties did not leave a single family of the region untouched. The subsequent collectivization and industrialization of the 30s, the excesses of leadership, affected the population of the region, but also yielded positive results. Industry has revived, agriculture has become one of the foremost in the world.
The occupation by the Nazi invaders during the Second World War, the heroic struggle of the people of Ukraine as part of the fraternal peoples of the USSR and the Nazis are written in gold on the pages of Ukrainian and world history.
The complete devastation and restoration in the post-war years, in which all the peoples of the country took part, the prosperity and formation of Ukraine as part of the USSR as one of the leading republics in terms of living standards, industrial production, agriculture, science and education, was reflected in the development of the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district.