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4 unusual facts about Kiev Oblast


Kiev Oblast

Slavutych – Ukraine's youngest city, houses personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The city of Slavutych was built outside of the zone to host evacuated residents of Prypyat and personnel of the zone installations.

The municipality of Slavutych is located within the borders of the neighboring Chernihiv Oblast on the eastern bank of the Dnieper river and the municipality has no common border with the Kyiv Oblast.

Pravex Bank

Incorporated in the country’s capital Kiev, the bank started its business activities in the city and in the Kiev Oblast (province).


Agapius Honcharenko

Born to a prominent Cossack family (he was a descendant of Ivan Bohun) in Kryva, Tarascha county, in Kiev Oblast, Honcharenko was the first Ukrainian political émigré to arrive in the United States.

Belgorod Kievsky

Currently there is a small village of Bilohorodka, Kiev Oblast near the location of the defunct city.

Tadeusz Bobrowski

Elected in 1858 as the delegate of Lipowiec County to the nobility's Committee for granting farmland to the peasants (uwłaszczenie), he became that Committee's delegate to a general Commission of three Ukrainian provinces: Kiev, Volyn and Podole.

Valeriy Lobanovskyi Memorial Tournament

In 2009 two games of the tournament were played at Boreks Stadium, Borodianka in Kiev Oblast.

Viktor Bannikov Memorial Tournament

The games of the tournament were played at stadiums in Kyiv and towns in Kiev Oblast: Boryspil, Makariv, Obukhiv, Borodianka.


see also

Pereyaslavl

Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi - a town in Kiev Oblast in Ukraine (was Pereyaslav(l) until 1943) Historically, it was also called Pereyaslavl Russkiy and Pereyaslavl Yuzhniy

Polessky

Poliske (Polesskoye), an abandoned town in Kiev Oblast, Ukraine

Terezino

Terezyne (Terezino), an urban-type settlement in Kiev Oblast of Ukraine