Koncha-Zaspa ( uk, Конча-Заспа) is a historic neighbourhood in the

Holosiiv Raion Holosiivskyi District ( uk, Голосіївський район, Romanization of Ukrainian, translit.: ''Holosiivs’kyi raion'') is an Urban districts of Ukraine, urban district of the city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Holosiivskyi Distric ...

(

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) of the city of

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

, the capital of

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. It is known for being the place where Ukraine's political elite live. Koncha-Zaspa is located in the southern part of the city. In the 1920s the territory was the first state preserve in the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

Description

The general area is located along the

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river and consists mostly of woodland, while its northern part includes the former settlement of Chapayivka (before the 1920s Vita Litovska) which has been part of Kyiv since 1957. Among other former settlements are Kozyn and Plyuty. In Koncha-Zaspa are located several sanatoriums "Koncha-Zaspa", "Zhovten", "Prolisok" as well as the training site of the

FC Dynamo Kyiv Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was offici ...

with a

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(just outside Chapayivka). Here is located a building of culture "Koncha-Zaspa" and a memorial complex Koncha-Zaspa. Through the neighborhood runs the Stolychne shose (Capital highway, P01), along which are located numerous elite dachas designated for the local Communist

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. Before the establishment of the

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regime, the area was reserved for a couple of famous Kyiv monasteries (

Vydubychi Vydubychi (also Vydobychi, Vudobych, Vydobech) () is a historical neighborhood in Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Geographically constituting a hill and a valley on the Right (western) Bank of the Dnipro River, it is now a part of the Pechersk district ...

and Vveden) as well as the

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family. Following Ukraine's independence in 1991 the neighborhood continues to be the place where many of Ukraine's political elite have lived for decades, some received dachas for life, some for temporary use. Former Ukrainian Presidents

Leonid Kravchuk Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk ( uk, Леонід Макарович Кравчук; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994. In 1992, he signed ...

Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corrup ...

and Viktor Yushchenko all lived in state-owned dachas in Koncha-Zaspa. Former President

Petro Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...

and former First Lady

Maryna Poroshenko Maryna Anatoliivna Poroshenko ( uk, Мари́на Анато́ліївна Пороше́нко, née Perevedentseva; born 1 February 1962) is a Ukrainian cardiologist who was the First Lady of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. She is married to former ...

also lived there. Current Ukrainian President

Volodymyr Zelensky Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

lives in Koncha-Zaspa since July 2020. The Office of the President of Ukraine noted early July 2020 that this was "temporary." Zelensky and his family live in the state-owned dacha where his predecessor Yushchenko lived from 2004 until 2014.

References

{{FC Dynamo Kyiv Neighborhoods in Kyiv Holosiivskyi District