Kiev Map.
Forget about boring guides from the tourist buses. With a good Kiev map beautiful ancient Kiev is literally in your hands.

Leave the beaten path. Take a good Kiev map and discover your own Kiev. Once you get to Kiev, you can pick up a free one at the airport. Any hotel, book store or a newspaper booth in the street should have them.

Surely, an updated folding paper Kiev Street Map is the most convenient. But to make finding your way around Kiev a little easier, I have included a few Kiev maps on this website. Do your homework, understand the way Kiev is laid out. It will really help you to discover your own Kiev.

Let's start our Kiev journey. Administratively, the city is divided into 10 raions (districts).

Three of them (Darnytskyi, Desnianskyi, and Dniprovskyi raions) are located on the left (east) bank of the Dniepr river.

Seven raions (Holosiyivskyi, Obolonskyi, Pecherskyi, Podilskyi , Shevchenkivskyi, Solomianskyi, Svyatoshynskyi) are located on the right (west) bank.

As of the All-Ukrainian Census conducted in 2001, the population of Kiev is 2,611,000. It is a big city which is not easy to manage. That's why each district (raion) has its own unit of central and local government with jurisdiction over a limited scope of affairs.

If you ask Kievans where they live, most likely, they will use another (non-formal) names to describe their neighborhoods. Most of them have lost their distinctive topographic limits since they got their original names from the times immemorial. But people still use those historical names.

Here are the most notable informal historical neighborhoods of Kiev.

Right (west) Bank: Akademmistechko, Borshchahivka, Holosiiv, Koncha-Zaspa, Lukyanivka, Lypky , Nyvky, Obolon, Pechersk, Podil, Puscha-Vodytsia, Shulyavka, Svyatoshyn, Tatarka , Vydubychi, Vynohradar, Zhulyany,Zvirynets',ets.

Left (east) Bank: Bereznyaky, Bykivnya, Darnytsia, Kharkivskyi masyv, Lisovyi masyv, Livoberezhnyi masyv,Osokorky, Poznyaky, Rusanivka, Trojeshchyna,etc.

To find some place in Kiev you would have to know:

• Formal raion
• Historical (informal) neighborhood
• Nearest metro (subway) station or train stop
• Formal address

We already have some idea about formal and informal names of Kiev's neighborhoods. Kiev Metro system is another special kind of presentation of Kiev Map. This kind of map makes orientation easy even for the newcomers. You will find Kiev Metro lines scheme at UrbanRailNet site (new window opens) together with a lot of useful practical information and pictures.

Kiev street map to check addresses can be found at InorComUa site. It has clear image, allows you not only view details but also has convenient search for the streets. Site works pretty good, but not very fast. Well, we have to pay something for quality.

Here is a map of the rail and auto roads around Kiev (new window opens) from EuropeTechCom site.

This satellite Kiev map I like the most. It's a good toy. A piece of Dniepr river, a bridge over it, the Independence Square, the Cathedrals of St. Sophia and St. Vladimir. You can see them so clear.

The last tool for you to find your way in the Kiev streets. Kiev is a city of the golden domes. You can see them everywhere.

All Orthodox churches have been built according to the strict architectural rules. Their altars and chapel are always located from the east side, while their campanile look west.

Crosses on the domes always have major horizontal and one slanted line which crosses the vertical main line. An elevated end of the slanted line always points to the north, while its opposite end points to the south.

Now when we have our Kiev maps ready, let's start our Kiev journey. Its glorious history goes back 1,500 years. This ancient and yet ever young city has a lot to be proud of:

• warm stones of the majestic monuments of the past
• theaters and museums
• ancient history where legends merge with reality
• steep slopes of the Slavutich (the ancient name for the Dnieper River) and Kiev's symbol kashtany (horse-chestnuts).
• modern megalopolis with crowds of people, streams of cars, fashionable restaurants, stylish night clubs, theaters which has so many trees that in the summer time you can walk from one end of Kiev to the other without leaving the shade.

Kiev Airport:To find information about services.

Kiev Street Map:Kiev downtown map.

Ukraine Capital. A Time Line of Kiev History.
"The Jerusalem of the lands of Rus" for centuries was one of the largest centers of civilization in the Eastern Christian world

You'll find information about Kiev's destinations and special places of interest added as I build this website.

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