Sviatoshyn

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The neighbourhood is located in the North-East of the Dnieper Upland, in the western a part of Kyiv city's area.

The suburb is situated on both sides of Kyiv's Prospect Beresteiskyi along its western part. Sviatoshyn neighborhood borders the Nyvka River[http://www.irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/cgi-bin/irbis_nbuv/cgiirbis_64.exe?I21DBN=LINK&P21DBN=UJRN&Z21ID=&S21REF=10&S21CNR=20&S21STN=1&S21FMT=ASP_meta&C21COM=S&2_S21P03=FILA=&2_S21STR=rnu_2010_2_13 Hydroecology of the Nyvka River, the current state, and escapes from environmental risks.]
{{langx|uk|Гриб Й. В. - Гідроекологія р. Нивка: сучасний стан та виходи із екологічних ризиків, Ситник Ю. М., Борбат М. О. (2010)}} (Borshchahivka River[http://pbrada.gov.ua/istoriya-petropavlivskoi-borschagivki.html History of Petropavlivska Borshchahivka village]
{{langx|uk|Історія села Петропавлівської Борщагівки}}) in the west, that flows through {{Interlanguage link multi|Sviatoshyn Ponds|uk|3=Святошинські ставки}} there and falls into the Irpin River of the Dnieper basin. There is the {{Interlanguage link multi|Sviatoshyn Forest Park|uk|3=Святошинський лісопарк}} beginning on the opposite side of the Nyvka River.

The east boundary of the suburb is the Kyiv - Kovel railway. There are {{Interlanguage link multi|Bilychi|uk|3=Біличі (Київ)}}, {{Interlanguage link multi|Akademmistechko (Kyiv)|uk|3=Академмістечко (масив)|lt=Akademmistechko}} and {{Interlanguage link multi|Aviamistechko|uk|3=Авіамістечко (Київ)}} neighbourhoods in the north of Sviatoshyn and {{Interlanguage link multi|Mykilska Borshchagivka|uk|3=Микільська Борщагівка|lt=Mykilska}} Borshchahivka neighbourhood, {{Interlanguage link multi|Skarbovyi forest|uk|3=Скарбовий ліс}} terrain, {{Interlanguage link multi|Zhovtneve (Kyiv)|uk|3=Жовтневе (Київ)|lt=Zhovtneve}} village and Petropavlivska Borshchahivka village in the south.

All Sviatoshyn's adjacent neighbourhoods and suburbs belong to the Sviatoshyn Raion as well, except the village of Petropavlivska Borshchahivka. That village is in Bucha Raion (district) of Kyiv Oblast (region).

By roads, the suburb is located:

• 13 km[https://www.google.com/maps/dir/50.456944,30.3725/Kiev,+Ukraine/@50.4657551,30.3849091,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x40d4cf4ee15a4505:0x764931d2170146fe!2m2!1d30.5234!2d50.4501!3e0?hl=en 13 km] to the Kyiv city centre.
• 10 km[https://www.google.com/maps/dir/50.456944,30.3725/Vokzalna+Street,+1,+Kyiv,+Ukraine/@50.4412878,30.3897079,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x40d4cef28f518f07:0x26f08f6329bb880c!2m2!1d30.4916359!2d50.4405925?hl=en 10 km] to the city's central station - Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi Railway Station.
• 12 km[https://www.google.com/maps/dir/50.456944,30.3725/Airport+Kiev+(IEV),+Medova+Street,+2,+Kiev,+Ukraine/@50.4277649,30.3717163,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x40d4c9478d439dcb:0x27666bcb99529f88!2m2!1d30.4445412!2d50.4077911!3e0?hl=en 12 km] to Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany)
• 44 km[https://www.google.com/maps/dir/50.456944,30.3725/Kyiv+Boryspil+International+Airport,+Boryspil',+Ukraine/@50.3988947,30.4855129,11z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x40d4e8fa667ec5d1:0x690a2c5d49d870da!2m2!1d30.8939274!2d50.338222!3e0?hl=en 44 km] to the main city's airport, Boryspil International Airport

The core Sviatoshyn road Peremohy Avenue is a part of European route E40, which is the main highway from Kyiv to the most European countries. There is {{ILL|Highway T 1027|uk|Автошлях Т 1027}} going through the suburb from north to south. It includes {{ILL|Academician Palladin Avenue|uk|Проспект Академіка Палладіна}} and {{Interlanguage link multi|Great Ring Road (Kyiv)|uk|3=Велика Окружна дорога (Київ)|lt=Great Ring Road}} there.

File:MykolaSviatoshaMonumentKyiv5.jpg

There are two hypotheses of the name of Sviatoshyn existing.

The first one comes from a version that there was a Saint Grove (Sviatyi, Святий гай) in there. That was a sacred place for pagans.

The second version says that the name is derived from the nickname of {{Interlanguage link multi|Nikola Sviatosha|uk|3=Микола Святоша}}, the Prince of Chernigov,"Kyiv, Encyclopaedic reference book". Kyiv. 1981
{{langx|uk|«Київ. Енциклопедичний довідник» УРЕ, Київ-1981}} who lived in the 12th century. His original name was Sviatoslav and he was a son of Davyd Sviatoslavich and a grandson of the Grand Prince of Kyiv Sviatoslav II. It is alleged that he owned a land at neighbouring Borshchahivka village.[http://www.vmurol.com.ua/upload/Stud_jitta/Dozvillya/Ekskursiyni%20programi/2012/Valeriy_Lisenko/1/Nevidomi_ta_malovidomi_storinki_Kieva.pdf Unknown and neglected pages of Kyiv History, page 17 (10) // M. O. Rybakov]
{{langx|uk|Невідомі та маловідомі сторінки історії Києва, М. О. Рибаков}} In 1106 the prince Sviatoslav donated all his property to the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra and became a monk of it.[http://litopys.org.ua/paterikon/pat20.htm Kyiv Pechersk Patericon // About Reverend Sviatosha, the Prince of Chernigov]
{{langx|uk|Патерик Києво-Печерський. Про преподобного Святошу, князя Чернігівського, Слово 20.}} He took the monk Christian name Nikola (Nikolai, {{langx|uk|Mykola, Микола}}). Since he had the born name Sviatoslav and was very devout he was given the informal nickname Sviatosha. Sviatosha means a pious, godly religious person.

In itself the Ukrainian word "Sviatoshyn" means "Sviatosha's", that is, something that belongs to Sviatosha.

File:Sviatoshyn pond.jpg

In contrast to English speaking countries, the names of a city's suburbs in Ukraine, that belong to city councils areas, do not have so strict spelling rules, because their name do not play any significant roles in an official city's division to local districts (raions) or in the postal system.

The ethnographer {{Interlanguage link multi|Lavrentii Pokhylevych|uk|3=Похилевич Лаврентій Іванович}} in his work "{{Interlanguage link multi|Tales of inhabited areas of the Kyiv province|uk|3=Сказання про населені місцевості Київської губернії}}" in 1884 mentioned this place as "a woodland called Sviatoshyn".[http://www.myslenedrevo.com.ua/ru/EStore/Local/1864Poxylevych.html Tales of inhabited areas of the Kyiv province 1884, page 15 (23)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426140737/http://www.myslenedrevo.com.ua/ru/EStore/Local/1864Poxylevych.html |date=26 April 2017 }}
{{langx|ru|Сказанія о населенныхъ мѣстностяхъ Кіевской губерніи}} There is a document "The report of the Committee to facilitate accomplishment of the villa area in the locality Sviatoshyn of the Kyiv province and district. Kyiv, 1903" existing.[http://search.rsl.ru/ru/record/01003973643 The report of the Committee to facilitate accomplishment of the villa areas in the locality Sviatoshyn of the Kyiv province and district]
{{langx|ru|Отчет Комитета Общества содействия благоустройству дачной местности в урочище "Святошин" Киевской губернии и уезда... - Search RSL}} At the beginning of the 20th century the dacha village was called Sviatoshyn (Святошинъ - in the {{Interlanguage link multi|Pre-reform Russian orthography|uk|3=Русская дореформенная орфография}}).[http://www.etomesto.ru/shubert-map/22-9/?h=14035&v=77245 Military Topographic Map of the Russian Empire 1846-1863]
{{langx|ru|Военно-топографическая карта Российской Империи 1846-1863 гг.}}[http://www.retroua.com/%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b5%d0%b2/378-%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%b9-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d1%81%d0%b2%d1%8f%d1%82%d0%be%d1%88%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%be/ Old photographs of Sviatoshyno // Photos of Kyiv on a map]
{{langx|ru|Старые фотографии Святошино, Фото Киева на карте, Киев - retroua.com}}

In the Soviet era there was a trend to change names of settlements, especially small ones, by putting the suffix "-o". So that since the 1930s on all maps of Kyiv, both Russian and Ukrainian languages, the suburb was marked as Sviatoshyno (Святошино).[http://svyatoshin.kiev.ua/category/6 Sviatoshyn (Kyiv, Ukraine) - Maps of land - descriptions, photos]
{{langx|ru|Святошин (Киев, Украина) - Карты местности - описания, фото}} Settlement names with the suffix "-o" are more typical of Russian language than Ukrainian, so sometimes the name Sviatoshyne (Святошине) was used in Ukrainian spelling.[http://izbornyk.org.ua/encycl/euii208.htm Vol 7], Encyclopedia of Ukraine
{{langx|uk|Енциклопедія українознавства. Словникова частина. Том 7}} Despite there being a Sviatoshyn (Святошин) article included in {{Interlanguage link multi|Kyiv (Encyclopedic reference book)|uk|3=Київ (енциклопедичний довідник)}} that was published by the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia editorial office.Kyiv: the encyclopedic reference book / ed. A.V. Kudrytskyi - 2nd ed. - K.: Ch. Ed. Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1985. - 760 pages // 555 page
{{langx|ru|Киев: энциклопедический справочник / под ред. А. В. Кудрицкого — 2-е изд. — К. : Гл. ред. Украинской Советской Энциклопедии, 1985. — 760 с., ил.}}

Since the station of the Kyiv Metro, which is the suburb's landmark, was renamed Sviatoshyn (Святошин) station, this variant of suburb spelling has been started broadly used. Ukrainian linguists insist on using Sviatoshyn (Святошин) as the locality name.[http://ukrainskamova.com/publ/morfologija_i_pravopis/tvorennja_i_vzhivannja_prisvijnikh_prikmetnikiv/6-1-0-104 Creation and using of possessive adjectives // The Ukrainian language official site]
{{langx|uk|Творення і вживання присвійних прикметників // Офіційний сайт Української мови}}[http://gazeta.ua/articles/events-journal/_nihto-u-sviti-ne-govorit-literaturnoyu-movoyu/470780 Nobody in the world does not speak the literary language // News on Gazeta.ua]
{{langx|uk|Ніхто у світі не говорить літературною мовою, Новини на Gazeta.ua}} In spite of this, sometimes the name Sviatoshyno (Святошино) has still been used, even in official documents of the Kyiv City Council.[http://old.kmr.gov.ua/divinfo.asp-Id=5444.htm Kyiv City Council // Proceedings #5 18.03.2015]
{{langx|uk|КИЇВСЬКА МІСЬКА РАДА, Протокол №5 18.03.2015, Постiйнi комiсiї}}

File:Sviatoshyn, Zhyvopysna St.JPG, a former name - the 5th prosika (cutting glade)]]

Before the Kievan Rus epoch it was a territory of Eastern Polans and approximately 10 kilometres to the west, on the left bank of the Irpin River, Drevlians' land began.[http://pidruchniki.com/14690715/istoriya/pohodzhennya_rozselennya_ustriy_slovyan The origin, distribution and social order of the Slavs in VI - IX centuries.] - History of Ukraine // Online study materials
{{langx|uk|Походження, розселення та устрій слов'ян у VI - IX ст. - Історія України - Навчальні матеріали онлайн}}

At the time of Kievan Rus and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania the land belonged to the Principality of Kyiv.

It is alleged that in the 12th century the owner of this land was {{Interlanguage link multi|Nikola Sviatosha|uk|3=Микола Святоша}} (Sviatoslav), the Prince of Chernigov, who donated it to the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Until the beginning of the 17th century this area belonged to Kyiv monasteries.[http://tram.mashke.org/files/AMY/books/Kiev_toponim_2003.pdf Kyiv. The short toponym guide]
{{langx|uk|Пономаренко Л. А., Різник О. О. Київ. Короткий топонімічний довідник. Довідкове видання. — К. : Видавництво «Павлім», 2003. — 124 с. : іл. — {{ISBN|966-686-050-3}}}}

The first mention of the area name Sviatoshyn was in 1619, when this land was a part of the Kyiv Voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Union of Lublin. At that time the king Sigismund III Vasa determined the metes and bounds of Kyiv's burgesses land possession in his charter. In particular it was said that Kyiv's citizens boundary went "through an oak grove to Sviatoshyn side".

At the time of the Cossack Hetmanate, the present Sviatoshyn territory belonged to the {{Interlanguage link multi|Kyiv Regiment|uk|3=Київський полк}}.

In the 1780s, at the time when this land was included into the Kyiv Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, the Magdeburg rights of Kyiv were revoked so Sviatoshyn area went to the state ownership.

Until the end of the 19th century, that land had been mentioned like Sviatoshyn wood, grove or forest, and it was a part of the {{Interlanguage link multi|Bilychi|uk|3=Біличі (Київ)}} volost of the Kyiv Governorate. There were no allusions about any permanent human settlements in there at that time.[http://toursdekiev.com.ua/files/map/kiev_map1850.jpg Plan of Kyiv outskirts, 1850]
{{langx|ru|Планъ окрестностей Кіева, 1850}}

In 1897 the Sviatoshyn land, which had been occupied by a pine grove, was divided into 450 lots and leased for 99 years. Thus а dacha village (summer colony) was set up there.

A grid plan was implemented in the village. That area master plan is typical of dacha summer settlements. The core road of Sviatoshyn was Brest-Litovsky highway, now {{Interlanguage link multi|Peremohy Avenue|uk|3=Проспект Перемоги (Київ)}}, that went from east to west dividing the village into two unequal parts.

• A prosika ({{langx|uk|просіка}}, {{langx|ru|просека, (old: просѣка)}}) means a narrow straight glade in a forest, in which trees have been cut down for further road laying or other business purposes.

File:Kyiv 80 Lvivska Street3.jpg Kyiv mayor (1906–1916, 1918)]]

The villa projects were created by the Kyiv architects {{Interlanguage link multi|Alexander Krivosheiev|uk|3=Кривошеєв Олександр Степанович}} and {{Interlanguage link multi|Alexander Khoinatsky|uk|3=Хойнацький Олександр Ромуальдович}}. A lot of powerful, influential and rich people had villas there. In particular, villa owners were Kyiv University professors, three Kyiv mayors, businessmen including members of the "sugar magnate" Tereshchenko family.

The popularity of the villa area was growing up because of a pine grove, a pond and a good transport infrastructure. Simultaneously with developing the land area, in 1898 a narrow-gauge railway was laid from Kyiv and it was used as a horsecar tram line then steam tram-cars operated there. In 1901 the village was connected to an electricity network so on 1 May that year electric trams were launched. In 1902 Kyiv - Kovel railway, which goes along the east edge of Sviatoshyn village, was finished up building and {{Interlanguage link multi|Sviatoshyn Railway Station|uk|3=Святошин (станція)}} was opened.

In 1911 one of the oldest Kyiv's cinemas {{Interlanguage link multi|Ekran cinema|uk|3=Екран (кінотеатр, Київ)|lt=Ekran}} ("screen") was opened at the corner of Brest-Litovsky Highway and the 3rd Prosika.

Between the village and {{Interlanguage link multi|Syrets|uk|3=Сирець}} suburb was Sviatoshyn Airfield where the pilot Pyotr Nesterov introduced his famous aerobatics flights.

In 1919 the village was included into the Kyiv City Council area.

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File:Kyiv 54 Pushynoi Street.jpg, 1938, an example of Stalinist architecture]]

File:Пам'ятник Вернадському В. І. 3.jpg Vernadsky, 1981, at the intersection of Peremohy Avenue and {{Interlanguage link multi|Academician Vernadsky Boulevard|uk|3=Бульвар Академіка Вернадського}}]]

File:Kiev Verkhovyna hotel.JPG

As a result of the Ukrainian–Soviet War (1917–1921) and the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921) Kyiv City and its suburbs was finally captured by the Red Army. In 1921 Bolsheviks conducted the administrative subdivision reform, so Kyiv was divided into 5 raions (districts) and Sviatoshyn was included into the City Council area permanently.

The Bolshevik government was conducting the nationalisation policy so that many dacha villas were expropriated. The best villas were transferred to state and trade unions sanatoriums, boarding schools and Young Pioneer camps. Some other villas and cottages were converted to communal apartments. In practice it means that a house owner family was left just one bedroom, a rest of bedrooms were given to other families, which usually originated from the working class. A kitchen room and a bathroom were used by all families together, that lived in a house.

In the 1930s Sviatoshyn's St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox church was demolished by Bolsheviks.[http://www.cerkva.info/en/news/diocese-of-kyiv/4531.html A workshop on the revival of St. Nicholas church in Sviatoshyn district. // Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP)]
{{langx|uk|Відбулася робоча нарада з відродження Свято-Миколаївського храму в Святошинському районі м. Києва}} However, on the south-west edge of Sviatoshyn the Roman Catholic parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was existing during the whole time of the Communist rule. It was only one the refuge for Roman Catholics in all Kyiv region.[http://www.karmel.org.ua/ua/convents/kyiv-friars Order of Barefoot Carmelites in Kyiv]
{{langx|uk|Орден Босих Кармелітів в Україні — Босі Кармеліти у Києві}}

In 1941 during the Second World War, the general staff of the Kyiv Fortified Region was situated in place of present Kyiv secondary school No. 140.[http://school140.edukit.kiev.ua/informaciya_pro_zaklad/istoriya/ History of Kyiv secondary school No. 140]
{{langx|uk|Історія - Cередня загальноосвітня школа № 140 Святошинського району м. Києва}} and next to it, the operational team of the command post of the Southwestern Front was located at the modern address 80 Verkhovynna Street. In 1944-1945 the training centre of Soviet partisans (guerrillas) located in the house at 10 the 2nd Prosika. There are a complex of monuments at Soviet soldiers' graves who killed in battle of Kyiv in 1943 at the {{Interlanguage link multi|Sviatoshyn Cemetery|uk|3=Святошинське кладовище}}.

At the end of the 1940s Sviatoshyn Airfield was passed to ownership of an aircraft serial production plant that since 1952 has been headquarters of Antonov state company. In 1988 the company produced the largest ever aircraft Antonov An-225 Mriya. Together with the aircraft factory development the new village {{Interlanguage link multi|Aviamistechko|uk|3=Авіамістечко (масив)|lt=Aviamistechko}} began being built next to the north-east edge of Sviatoshyn. The name Aviamistechko ({{langx|uk|Авіамістечко|lit=Aviation town}}) Sometimes this locality has been called Novosviatoshyn (New Sviatoshyn) as well.

In 1947 the clothing factory "Kashtan" ("Chestnut") was launched;[http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=11476 Kashtan, Kyiv garment factory] - Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine // © 2014-2016 the NASU Institute of Encyclopaedic Research
{{langx|uk|Каштан Київська швейна фабрика - Енциклопедія Сучасної України // ©2014-2016 Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України}} it was one of the biggest producer of male shirts in the USSR.[http://www.ucci.org.ua/synopsis/dv/2005/dv0506141.ru.html "Dilovyi Visnyk"] (Business Journal), 2005, #6 (133), p. 14, {{ISSN|1680-3310}}
{{langx|ru|«ДЕЛОВОЙ ВЕСТНИК}} (Діловий вісник)», 2005, № 6 (133), с. 14, {{ISSN|1680-3310}}

Late in the 1950s the new housing estate {{Interlanguage link multi|Akademmistechko (Kyiv)|uk|3=Академмістечко (масив)|lt=Akademmistechko}} was started building on the land of the former vegetable farm "Sviatoshyn", that had been located north of the neighbourhood. Besides residential buildings there have been numerous research institutes of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences situated in there. Therefore, the suburb got the name Akademmistechko ({{langx|uk|Академістечко|lit=Academic town}}).

In 1971 Sviatoshyn(o) station of the Kyiv Metro was opened on the east edge of neighbourhood, next to the same name railway station.

At the beginning of the 1970s a new housing estate of tower blocks was begun erecting in the north-west part of Sviatoshyn and south-east part of {{Interlanguage link multi|Bilychi|uk|3=Біличі (Київ)}} suburbs, for that all existing former dacha houses had been demolished in there. In 1979–1980 the Ukrainian poet and Soviet political prisoner Vasyl Stus was living in apartment building at 13-a {{Interlanguage link multi|Chornobylska Street|uk|3=Чорнобильська вулиця (Київ)}} in that housing estate.

In 1982 due to increasing number of traffic lanes of Brest-Litovsky Highway, Sviatoshyn tram line was dismantled.[http://history.org.ua/JournALL/kraj/kraj_2014_1/5.pdf Stefan Mashkevych // History suburban of Kyiv tram lines. Sviatoshyn tram]
{{langx|uk|Стефан Машкевич // Історія приміських трамвайних ліній Києва. Святошинський трамвай}} Instead of trams, trolleybuses were launched to the neighbourhood.

File:Меморіальний комплекс «Пам'ятник жертвам Чорнобильської трагедії» 9.jpg

The {{Interlanguage link multi|Memorial to Chernobyl disaster victims|uk|3=Пам'ятний знак жертвам Чорнобильської катастрофи (Київ)|lt=memorial to Chernobyl disaster victims}} is located in a landscape park at the intersection of {{Interlanguage link multi|Chornobylska Street|uk|3=Чорнобильська вулиця (Київ)}} and {{Interlanguage link multi|Peremohy Avenue|uk|3=Проспект Перемоги (Київ)}}. The memorial is devoted to people who were killed, injured and suffered because of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

The monument to victims of that tragedy was erected at the initiative of the "Chernobyl Disabled Union" on 26 April 1994, with funds of the local budget and private donations. Authors of the monument are the sculptor {{Interlanguage link multi|Volodymyr Chepelyk|uk|3=Чепелик Володимир Андрійович}} and architect {{Interlanguage link multi|Mykola Kyslyi|uk|3=Кислий Микола Іванович}}.[http://svyat.kyivcity.gov.ua/content/memorialnyy-kompleks.html Memorial.] Sviatoshyn Raion government
{{langx|uk|Меморіальний комплекс - Святошинська районна в м.Києві державна адміністрація}}

In 2001 the St {{Interlanguage link multi|Theodosius of Chernihiv|uk|3=Феодосій Чернігівський}} church and in 2002 the bell tower museum were built at the monument.

In 2011 the memorial avenue "Heroes of Chernobyl" was created at the initiative of "Chernobyl Fire-fighters" NGO.[http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=244234629 The memorial avenue "Heroes of Chernobyl" was opened in Kyiv] // Government portal.
{{langx|uk|Урядовий портал // У Києві відкрито меморіальну алею "Героїв Чорнобиля"}} There were erected seven busts of firemen, heroes of Ukraine and the Soviet Union and installed eight memorial plates in memory of died Chernobyl disaster liquidators.[http://tyzhden.ua/News/21447 Chernobyl liquidators have been commemorated in Kyiv] // The Ukrainian Week.
{{langx|uk|У Києві пом’янули чорнобильців - Новини - Український тиждень, Тиждень.ua}}

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{{Interlanguage link multi|Vasyl Stus Garden Square|uk|3=Сквер імені Василя Стуса (Київ)}} is located at the corner {{Interlanguage link multi|Academician Palladin Avenue|uk|3=Проспект Академіка Палладіна}} and {{Interlanguage link multi|Peremohy Avenue|uk|3=Проспект Перемоги (Київ)}}. It is named after the poet and political prisoner Vasyl Stus, who was one of the most significant members of the Ukrainian cultural movement of the sixtiers. He was living near this place at 62 {{Interlanguage link multi|Lvivska Street|uk|3=Львівська вулиця (Київ)}}, since his marriage in 1965 to the first arrest in 1972. The house was demolished in 1979 due to building the road interchange there.[http://kyiv.pravda.com.ua/publications/49c2003ecd4f3/ In defense of Vasyl Stus Garden Square] // Ukrainska Pravda
{{langx|uk|На захист скверу імені Василя Стуса // Українська правда - Київ}}

In 2006 at the initiative of the Ukrainian People's Party and {{Interlanguage link multi|Green World (Ukrainian Ecological Association)|uk|3=Українська екологічна асоціація «Зелений світ»|lt=Green World}} NGO,[https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/day-after-day/long-path-stus A long path to Stus // The Day newspaper] a local community meeting was conducted, it was decided to establish Vasyl Stus garden square. The initiative coordinator was Viktor Tkachenko. In March 2007 the Kyiv City Council supported this initiative and local volunteers including students of schools 140 and 200, clean up the plot on Earth Day. However, in 2008 the Kyiv City State Administration gave a building permit for shopping centre construction here. Thus the building developer cut down more than 100 trees including oaks older than 120 years and pines older than 150 years.[http://www.umoloda.kyiv.ua/number/2481/189/88016/ Kyiv without Stus?] // Ukrayina Moloda
{{langx|uk|Київ без Стуса? // Україна Молода}} The litigations began between parties.[https://cases.legal/en/act-uk1-29754644.html Regulation no - Affairs of the from resolution about software justice, to the particular disputes that in:. - Shramko Yu.T. - 27.2.2013 - Cases.legal // «about appropriation skveru Basil Stus»]

Finally in 2010 the Kyiv City Council assigned "Vasyl Stus" name to this plot but in fact the garden square was opened on Kyiv Day of 2015[http://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news/27037909.html In Kyiv on the place of the scandalous construction site, Vasyl Stus Garden Square has been opened.] // Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
{{langx|uk|У Києві на місці скандальної забудови відкрили сквер імені Василя Стуса}} by the mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko. There were Vasyl Stus's widow and his sister, who was a refugee from the Donetsk Oblast because of the Russo-Ukrainian War, granddaughter, friends-sixtiers, public activists and local community residents present in the ceremonial unveiling of the garden square.[http://kiev-ukr.segodnya.ua/kwheretogo/v-kieve-otkryli-skver-imeni-vasiliya-stusa-618826.html Vasyl Stus Garden Square has been opened in Kyiv] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313024945/http://kiev-ukr.segodnya.ua/kwheretogo/v-kieve-otkryli-skver-imeni-vasiliya-stusa-618826.html |date=13 March 2016 }} (photo, video) // Segodnya
{{langx|uk|У Києві відкрили сквер імені Василя Стуса (фото,відео) - Комунальники встановили лавки, посадили квіти і посіяли траву // СЕГОДНЯ}}

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{{Interlanguage link multi|Sviatoshyn Railway Station|uk|3=Святошин (станція)}} is a point which all electric multiple unit trains go through from Kyiv towards the North-West direction.[http://swrailway.gov.ua/timetable/eltrain3-7/?sid=85&sid2=&startPicker2=&dateR=0&lng=_en Timetable of the station Sviatoshyn] Some passenger trains that run to Western Ukraine stop at Sviatoshyn station.[http://www.uz.gov.ua/en/passengers/timetable/?station=47125&by_station=1 Timetables :: Passengers] :: The official website of Ukrainian Railways

There is the bus station "Dachna" located at 142a Peremohy Avenue. Buses to European countries and Western Ukraine set off from here.[https://busfor.ua/%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%97%D0%B2/%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F-%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BF-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8-142%D0%90 "Dachna" bus station // Timetable]
{{langx|uk|Автостанція "Дачна" Київ – Розклад автобусів – busfor.ua}}

The Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line of the Kyiv Metro is laid underground in the neighbourhood. Zhytomyrska Metro station, opened on 24 May 2003, is situated in the centre of Sviatoshyn. Sviatoshyn station, built in 1971, is on the eastern edge of the suburb. Akademmistechko station, opened in 2003, is located at the border Bilychi and Akademmistechko neighbourhoods near the north side of Sviatoshyn.

The suburb is connected to other neighbourhoods by Kyiv's municipal {{Interlanguage link multi|Buses in Kyiv|uk|3=Київський автобус|lt=buses}} and trolleybuses.[http://knuj.org/ua/kyiv/index.html?categoryid=65 Routes of buses, trolleybuses, trams, timetables, Kyiv // Portal of journalists.]
{{langx|uk|Маршрути автобусів, тролейбусів, трамваїв, розклад руху, Київ - Портал журналістів}}

There is an airfield Sviatoshyn Airfield where is located Antonov Serial Production Plant, formerly Aviant.

• [http://svyat.kyivcity.gov.ua/content/menyu-2.html Information about the area - The local government of Sviatoshyn Rayon] // ({{langx|uk|Відомості про район - Святошинська районна в м.Києві державна адміністрація}})
• [http://ukrainaincognita.com/villy/svyatoshynski-dachi Some photos of old Sviatoshyn cottages] // ({{langx|uk|Святошинські дачі, Україна Інкогніта}})

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