[128][129][130], In 2009, Kyiv's roads were in poor technical condition and maintained inadequately.[131]. In the course of the collapse of the Soviet Union the Ukrainian parliament proclaimed the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine in the city on 24 August 1991. The texts of those authors were discovered by Russian orientalist Alexander Tumansky. [60] The warmest months are June, July, and August, with mean temperatures of 13.8 to 24.8 °C (56.8 to 76.6 °F). European routes  ,   and   intersect in Kyiv. Kyiv prospered during the late 19th century Industrial Revolution in the Russian Empire, when it became the third most important city of the Empire and the major centre of commerce of its southwest. [41] These events had a profound effect on the future of the city and on the East Slavic civilization. The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War is located here, which offers both indoor and outdoor displays of military history and equipment surrounded by verdant hills overlooking the Dnieper river. Get your digital or print subscription today! In World War II, the city again suffered significant damage, and Nazi Germany occupied it from 19 September 1941 to 6 November 1943. Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine, also known by its Russian-based name Kiev. In 2011 the Kyiv city administration established a new 'Urban Train' for Kyiv. Since the campaign's launch, 63 airports and 3 airlines worldwide (as of January 2020) have begun using the name Kyiv, even before this new name was adopted by the IATA. 1 year ago. [citation needed] However, enthusiasts among ethnic Ukrainian nobles, military and merchants made recurrent attempts to preserve native culture in Kyiv (by clandestine book-printing, amateur theatre, folk studies etc.). KyivNotKiev is an online campaign started by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) together with the Center for strategical communications "StratCom Ukraine" on October 2, 2018. There are monthly passes in all combinations of public transportation. In the 1230s the city was besieged and ravaged by different Rus' princes several times. The Primary Chronicles state that at some point during the late 9th or early 10th century in Kyiv ruled Askold and Dir who may have been of Viking or Varangian descent and later were murdered by Oleg of Novgorod. Local public transportation in Kyiv includes the Metro (underground), buses and minibuses, trolleybuses, trams, taxi and funicular. The oblast state administration and council is located in the Kyiv Oblast council building on ploshcha Lesi Ukrayinky (Lesya Ukrayinka Square). 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As a result, Kyiv's central districts provide a dotted contrast of new, modern buildings among the pale yellows, blues and greys of older apartments. The tram system consists of 139.9 km (86.9 mi) of track,[127] including 14 km (8.7 mi) two Rapid Tram lines, served by 21 routes with the use of 523 tram cars. The central streets are closed for auto traffic on weekends and holidays. These structures (once a united complex) were built in the Pechersk and neighbourhoods by the Russian army. The major events that took place in Soviet Ukraine during the interwar period all affected Kyiv: the 1920s Ukrainization as well as the migration of the rural Ukrainophone population made the Russophone city Ukrainian-speaking and bolstered the development of Ukrainian cultural life in the city; the Soviet Industrialization that started in the late 1920s turned the city, a former centre of commerce and religion, into a major industrial, technological and scientific centre; the 1932–1933 Great Famine devastated the part of the migrant population not registered for ration cards; and Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of 1937–1938 almost eliminated the city's intelligentsia[50][51][52]. [53] Shortly after the Wehrmacht occupied the city, a team of NKVD officers who had remained hidden dynamited most of the buildings on the Khreshchatyk, the main street of the city, where German military and civil authorities had occupied most of the buildings; the buildings burned for days and 25,000 people were left homeless. Kyiv is completely surrounded by Kyiv Oblast. Budivelnyk was founded in 1945, Sokil was founded in 1963, during the existence of the Soviet Union. The etymology of Sambat has been argued by many historians including Grigoriy Ilyinsky, Nikolay Karamzin, Jan Potocki, Nikolay Lambin, Joachim Lelewel, Guðbrandur Vigfússon and many others.

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