Kiynka () is a village in

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, the center of Kyinka rural hromada,

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Chernihiv Raion Chernihiv Raion () is a raion (district) of Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Chernihiv. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Chernihi ...

. It is located at a distance of 1 km from

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.История городов и сел Украинской ССР: Черниговская область/ ред. Половец В. М. — К.: Главная редакция УРЕ. — 1983 г. — 816 с. Retrieved 2024-08-08 Until 2016, the local self-government body was the Kyinka Village Council, to which, in addition to Kyinka, were subordinated villages Hushchyn and Zhawynka. During the 2022

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, Russian military forces were unable to enter Kyinka, but the village was constantly shelled from the directions of Mykhailo-Kotsiubynske and , resulting in damage to over a thousand houses.

Geography

The name of the village comes from the Kiyanka River, a right tributary of the Bilous River ( Desna basin). The Kyinka is located in the center of Chernihiv raion, bordering the city of Chernihiv in the northeast.The territory of the village is located within the

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, on the left bank of the

Desna River The Desna ( Russian and ) is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper. Its name in means "right hand". It has a length of , and its drainage basin covers .Dnieper basin The Dnieper Basin is the drainage basin of the Dnieper River, covering an area of . Its water resources compose around 80% of the total for all Ukraine. Geography The Dnieper Basin lies within Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. It borders on the Vol ...

). The relief of the surface of the Kyinka is a lowland plain, there are oxbow lake and artificial lakes in the floodplain of the river. The climate of Kyinka is moderately continental, with warm summers and relatively mild winters. The average temperature in January is about -7°C, and in July - +19°C. The average annual precipitation ranges from 550 to 660 mm, with the highest precipitation in the summer period. The most common are sod-podzolic and gray forest soils. The Kyinka is located in the natural zone of mixed forests, in Polissya. The main species in the forests are pine, oak, alder, ash, birch. Minerals – loam, peat, sand. Regional highways pass near the village, but there is no railway connection.The nearest railway station is in the city of

References

External links

History of Kyinka

Website of the Kyinka rural hromada
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