Boiarka or Boyarka (, ) is a city in

Fastiv Raion Fastiv Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its Capital (political), administrative center is the city of Fastiv. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Obl ...

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast (, ), also called Kyivshchyna (, ), is an Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, which is administered as a city with special sta ...

(

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) of

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, about 20 km SW from

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

. It hosts the administration of Boiarka urban hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population: The population in 2001 was 35,968.

History

There are traces of an old

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settlement, including the remains of an ancient cemetery. The railway reached the town in the 1860s, after which it became a favourite resort for artists and writers, including the composer

Mykola Lysenko Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an ''oeuvre'' tha ...

and the writer Sholom Aleichem. The fictional ''

dacha A dacha (Belarusian, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and rus, дача, p=ˈdatɕə, a=ru-dacha.ogg) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of former Soviet Union, post-Soviet countries, including Russia. A cottage (, ...

'' settlement of Boyberik, where events of Aleichem's tales of '' Tevye the Milkman'' (later adapted as ''

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'') take place, is based on Boiarka. Until 18 July 2020, Boiarka belonged to Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion. The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion was split between Bucha, Fastiv, and

Obukhiv Raion Obukhiv Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Obukhiv. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and ...

s, with Boiarka being transferred to Fastiv Raion. During the

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, Russian shelling struck the suburbs of Boiarka during the Battle of Kyiv.

Present-day

The Kyiv Oblast

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is located in Boiarka. The town is also the location of the Boiarka

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Centre, owned by the company

Naftogaz Naftogaz of Ukraine (, ''Naftogaz Ukrainy''; literally "Naphtha-Gas of Ukraine") is the largest national oil and gas company of Ukraine. It is a state-owned company

, which provides

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services for gas-flow meters.Brochure ''Metrological Centre NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" '', Kyiv, 2009 During the years 2005 to 2007, the town hosted the now-defunct football club, FC Inter Boiarka.

Sport

Boiarka has a team called FC Inter Boiarka, that in 2001 was also coached by

Yukhym Shkolnykov Yukhym Hryhorovych Shkolnykov (31 January 1939 – 3 September 2009) was a Ukrainian coach and Soviet footballer. He was on the original squad of FC Desna Chernihiv, Avanhard Chernihiv, that in 1960 joined the Class B competitions. Playing car ...

Notable people

Sholem Aleichem Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (; May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish language, Yiddish and , also spelled in Yiddish orthography#Reform and standardization, Soviet Yiddish, ; Russian language, Russian and ), ...

, writer * Sergei Balenok,

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* Eugene Hütz, singer and composer *

George Kistiakowsky George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky (, ; – December 7, 1982) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. B ...

, physical chemistry professor * Oleksandra Matviichuk, human rights lawyer * Maks Levin, photographer *

, composer *

Nikolai Ostrovsky Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky (; ; 29 September 1904 – 22 December 1936) was a Soviet socialist realist writer. He is best known for his novel '' How the Steel Was Tempered''. Life Ostrovsky was born in the village of ''Viliya'' (today a v ...

, writer *

Mykola Pymonenko Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko (; 9 March 1862 – 8 April O.S. 26 March">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 26 March1912) was a Ukrainian realist painter who lived and worked in Kyiv. One ...

, painter * Maria Zankovetska, actress *

Bohdan Yermakov Bohdan Oleksandrovych Yermakov (; born 28 March 1985) Ukrainian artist and poet. He is best known for his realistic rural landscapes. Biography Bogdan Yermakov was born in the family of the artist and designer Yermakov Alexander Vyacheslavovi ...

, painter * Volodymyr Samiilenko, poet

Sources

*Andriy Ivchenko, ''All About Ukraine'', Kyiv, 2007 *''Metrological Centre NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" '', Kyiv, 2009

References

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