Cities

Berezan’

Berezan’ is an ancient Cossacks centurion’s settlement. The first record on it can be found in historical original sources of 1616.
Many glorious names are connected with Berezan’, in particular, hetmans Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Ivan Mazepa, poet and painter Taras Shevchenko, poet-philosopher Gregory Skovoroda, and the Saint Sophrony of Irkutsk.

Bila Tserkva

Bila Tserkva is situated in the valley of the river of Ros’ at the distance of 84 km in south-west direction from the capital of Ukraine Kyiv.
The city was founded by the Great Prince Yaroslav the Wise in 1032. The ancient and first name of the city was Yurjiv. In 1240, during the Tartar and Mongol hordes, the ancient settlement of Yurjiv was burned down. It was only in one hundred years that the city started to be rebuilt. The white ruins of the Great Eparchial Cathedral served as an orientation among thick woods of Porossja. The name of the restored city – the White Church – is connected exactly with the colour of those ruins.

Boryspil

The town is situated beyond the 35th km in the southern-east direction from Kyiv.
The place is first recorded in the Chronicles before the year of 1015 when Borys, son of Kyiv prince Volodymyr Svyatoslavovych, marched out to the left bank of Dnieper and stopped at Alta’s fortification. He died there from the hands of murderers hired by Svyatopolk who seized the throne of the Great Prince. Since then, the place where Borys met his martyr’s death had been called the Borys’s field, and later the town was called Boryspil.

Brovary

Brovary is a town with an area of 3.4 thousand hectares located in Kyiv region within 20 km from the capital.
It is one of the largest industrial and administrative centres of Kyivschyna (Kyiv region).
There is no clear evidence of the time of town foundation. Archeological findings prove that the territory of the contemporary town and its suburbs was populated as far back as in XI century. Documentary sources date the name of Brovary by 1630 for the first time, in this period most part of the territory belonged to Osterske starostvo (administrative unit in Lithuanian princedom) ruled by prince Yarema Vyshnevetsky.
The very name of Brovary can be found only in XVIII century documents. The population of Brovary took part in the upheavals of peasants and Cossacks.
Close location to Kyiv, convenient geographical position and marvelous natural conditions are factors of the town’s rapid development. At the end of the XIX-th century it became the centre of the volost (a unit of administrative division in the XIX century).
Taras Shevchenko visited Brovary on several occasions, in his poem “Catherina” there is a reference to the city.
Brovary has a lot of historical sights.

Bucha

Bucha appeared at the time when Kyiv-Kovel railway was being constructed. Due to luxurious scenery and healing air of the pine forest the town has been remaining a wonderful recreation place for centuries. From a small station Bucha turned into the biggest village not only in Ukraine but in the whole Europe.
The territory of Bucha is 26.57 square kilometers with population of nearly 27 thousand people. At the beginning of the year the town budget was approved to make more than four million hryvnias.
Nowadays Bucha is not only a health resort, there are also a number of industrial enterprises with different forms of ownership, medium and small business enterprises are very active as well.
Irpin central city hospital, Bucha State Communal Housing-Operational Enterprise and a diet-kitchen are situated in a former village, which since January 1, 2007 is a town of regional subordination. In terms of education there are five kindergartens, four secondary schools, a gymnasium (a high school) and a designated boarding school, Ukrainian Humanitarian Institute, also three Culture Centres, an Art School, four libraries, School of Physical Culture for Children and Youth, a wonderful stadium and a church.
Bucha has a glorious historical past. In different times it was visited by such outstanding people as a writer M. Bulgakov, an artist M. Murashko, a composer L. Revutsky and an academician E. Paton, actresses M. Insarova and M. Zankovetska, poets M. Rylsky and V. Sosiura.

Vasyl’kiv

Scientists date the emergence of the town with 988-996. It was founded by Kyiv Prince Vladimir and he named it Vasyliv, his own new name obtained after he embraced Christianity.
The town confirmed its reputation of an important strategic point: earth banks and deep trenches filled up with water of Stugni, were a considerable obstacle on the way of numerous enemies who strived to capture Vasyliv, an advantageous staging area close to Kyiv. In 1157, following prince’s conspiracies and intrigues, the town got into domains of Vasyl’kov Yuryovych, son of Kyiv prince Yury Volodymyrovych. That gave the origin to its new name, Vasyl’kiv.

Irpin
(Irpinsky district)

The town of Irpin owes its emergence to building of railway Kyiv—Kovel that started in 1899. Near the railway and not far from Kyiv, railwaymen founded summer settlements Irpin, Bucha and Vorzel. Settlement Irpin received its name from the river of the same name on the banks of which it was situated.
Irpinsky district is a suburb area of the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and the place of creative work and rest of the Ukrainian intelligentsia with its own developed infrastructure. Warm climate of Irpin district, green forestlands and clean air encouraged development of a diversified sanatorium and resort area.

Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky

In the 9th century, Pereyaslav was the capital city of the princedom that united the lands from Dnieper to Don. However, the Mongol-Tatars ruined the city in 1239.
The revival of Pereyaslav began in the 16th – 17th centuries. Hetman of Ukraine Bogdan Khmelnitsky lived and worked there, peoples’ writer Sholom-Aleykhem was born there, as well as academician V. Zabolonty. In 1738, a college was opened in the town where Gregory Skovoroda taught poetry. Taras Shevchenko repeatedly visited the town.
Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky is a town-museum. Here operates the National historical and ethnographical reserve “Pereyaslav” counting 23 museums.

Rzhyschiv

Rzhyschiv is a town situated at the mouth of river Leglych of Dnieper basin.
Rzhyschiv appeared at the place of an ancient town Ivan-gorod mentioned in the chronicles as long ago as in 1151.
In 1240, the town was destroyed by Mongol-Tartars. A long time has passed until a new settlement emerged in the place of Ivan-gorod, that is, Rzhyschiv. The first records on it relate to the year of 1506.
After Union of Lublin of 1569, Rzhyschiv fell under Polish power.
During the period of liberating war of 1648-1654, Rzhyschiv was a centurion’s town of Kaniv regiment. Its inhabitants participated in battles against the Polish gentry.
In 1653 in Rzhyschiv, Bogdan Khmelnitsky welcomed Russian ambassadors and conducted negotiations with them on reunification of Ukraine and Russia. After the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, Rzhyschiv remained under the power of Poland.

Slavutych

Slavutych is a town of Kyiv regional subordination located in the western part of Chernihiv region. Initially being a railway station, town of Slavutych was constructed for the employees of Chornobyl Atomic Power Station.
Slavutych is an only town in Kyiv region that has no direct connection with it, the town is surrounded from all sides with the territory of Chernihiv region. Slavutych is 10 km distance from the Dnipro river, 200 km from Kyiv and 40 km from Chernihiv. The area of the town is 253 hectares and the territory subordinating to the town council is over 2083 hectares.
On 2 October 1986 a resolution was passed about the foundation of Slavutych, in the following year of 1987 the construction was finished.

Fastiv

For the first time the town is mentioned in the chronicles of 1390. Fastiv Colonel Semen Paliy most loudly glorified the town and caused a tangible enhancement of its economic and political life at the turning point of the 16th and 17th centuries. It was he who managed to attain an absolutely independent governing of the  lands that belonged to the Ukrainian Cossacks from times immemorial and stretchedfrom Dnieper to Sluch at the late 80s.
Decades passed by… Gradually the town was turning into a centre of industrial and economic development. The first decades of the 20th century also were rich in interesting and often dramatic developments. In December of 1918, right in a special echelon on tracks of Fastiv railway station, representatives of the Directorate signed a tentative text of the Treaty on coalescence between the Ukrainian Peoples’ Republic and Western Ukrainian Peoples’ Republic into a single state. Dwellers of Fastiv added Heroic pages into the chronicles of Fastiv during the most audacious war – the World War II.
It is presently the town of railway workers, a remarkable industrial centre with dozens of enterprises of various industries .

 

 

Districts

Baryshivsky district

Baryshivka is first recorded in the Troyitsky chronicles in 1125 as an ancient settlement of Baruch. We shall find out about the ancient settlement of Baryshovske from the sources of the 17th century.
The primogenitors of Baruch residents defended their independence in the battles with the Golden Horde, the Lithuanian feudalists and Polish gentries. Nalyvaiko’s, Pavluk’s and Ostryanin’s people’s revolts rolled as a surge over the Baruch land.
In Baryshiv, there was a well-known commercial school where lecturers were Mykola Zerov, and Yury Klen. A school of art of itinerant players on a lute achieved a glory. Unsurpassed masterpieces were created by Veselynj handywomen of embroidering – Hanna Sobachko-Shostak, Likera Tsybulyova, Maria Schur and others.

Bilotserkivsky district

The district of Bila Tserkva is the name of the land with the history rooting into a grey remoteness of over five thousand years. The whole chain of historic events happened in the past: construction of a large bastion to fight against Mongols and Tartars on the banks of Ros’, the town of Yurjev and signing of Bila Tserkva Treaty between Bogdan Kmelnitsky and Polish gentry during the Liberation war of 1651-1654. Pages of historic glory of Bilotserkivsky district are closely connected with Ukrainian Cossacks movement, Koliyivschina, the Decembrists movement and other historical events.
Bila Tserkva district is a cradle that nourished many outstanding personalities of the past. The village of Mazepyntsi is the motherland of Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa, and there is a monument to him in that village. A well-known Russian writer K. Paustovsky spent his childhood in the village of Pylypcha. The Nadrossja is the life source from which I. Nechuy-Levitsky took his creative power. Uzin land became the first launching ground for in the life of space pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union P. R. Popovych.

Boguslavsky district

Districtal centre Boguslav was established by Kiev prince Yaroslav the Wise in 1032.
Bogdan Khmelnitsky attached great significance to Boguslav and repeatedly made it the place for gathering his armed forces. Ukrainian painter Ivan Soshenko who “revealed” Taras Shevchenko to the world was born in Boguslav on June 2, 1807.
In the 70s of the 19th century, in Boguslav, writer I. S. Nechuy-Levytsky repeatedly visited Boguslav. In 1886-1893, a prominent Ukrainian writer Marco Vovchok, as well as many other prominent personalities, lived there.

Boryspilsky district

The land of Boryspil enjoyed a thousand years’ history. We have a great spiritual legacy passed over to us from many generations. Numerous archaeological monuments that have been included into the cultural legacy registry are concentrated in the district’s territory.
Boryspil district is famous for local talents, among which there are poets M. Karpenko, P. Zasenko and M. Shostak; painters K. Mironova, I. Prykhod’ko, I. Zemlyanskykh and others.

Borodjansky District

Located in the area of Polissia it occupies a territory of 93,396 hectares.
Kyiv-Kovel highway and a part of Kyiv branch of south-western railway run through the territory of the district.
Borodjanka, an urban type settlement, is situated on the left bank of the river Zdvyzh. Historical documents failed to preserve the exact date of the foundation of the village and the etymology of its name. It is known that at the times of Kyiv Rus the territory of contemporary village was occupied by a settlement of Koziatychi, but it was destroyed by Mongol-Tatar invasion in 1240. Some time later the settlement was reconstructed again. In XVI century Koziatychi was a property of a Lithuanian prince Roman. A Polish Royal Charter of 1509 confirms ownership rights for Borodjanka (Koziatychi) of the noblemen Makarevichi. Thus the name of Borodjanka for the first time is mentioned in XVI century and for the last time the name of Koziatychi can be seen in the act of purchase of the village by its new owner A. Dorohaievsky in 1640.
As World War II broke out all the population of Borodjanka worked to construct an anti-tank ditch between Borodianka and Berestianka. Under fascist occupation there were several clandestine partisan groups fighting with the enemy.
On 9 November 1943 the Soviet troops liberated Borodjanka from the fascists. 795 Borodjanka native people fought on the fronts of WWII, 300 of them lost their lifes. More than 700 people were awarded with orders and medals for their courage and bravery.
In the period of 60-ies – 80-ies the district shows a swift development of food and construction industries – schools, kindergartens, a health centre and other premises were erected.

Brovarsky District

Brovarsky District locating within 20 km from the capital of Ukraine was set up in the spring of 1923. The area of it is 1.2 thousand square kilometers which is 4.3% of the region territory. In the couth-western part of this territory 20 kilometres in the north-east direction from Kyiv is the town of Brovary, occupying the area of 3,300 hectares.
The total length of motor roads in the district is over 300 km. The main highway of the region is Kyiv-Chernihiv, which is running through Brovary, Kalynivka, Skybyn, Zalissia, Semypolky. Of great importance is also Kyiv-Brovary-Pryluky motor road
In 1843-1847 T.G. Shevchenko visited Brovarschyna, Brovary and Ohlav in particular, for several times, and dedicated to this land and its people his pieces of writing “Caterina” (Catherine), “Sotnyk”, “Varnak” and others. In 1861 through Brovarsky area the great Kobzar was followed to his grave on a high bank of the Kaniv river - his willed place.
Upon the abolition of serfdom in 1861 in eastern Ukraine the economic situation in the area aggravated. This was affected by the construction of Kursk-Kyiv railway in1868 and a motor-tram line from Kyiv to Brovary in 1912, as well as by Kyiv railway station in Brovary, constructed in 1868-1870.
In 1956 Brovary was granted a town status.

Vasyl’kivsky district

Archaeological evidences prove that settlements of Tripolje culture bearers were in the territory of the district as early as in the 4th – 3rd centuries B.C. After a mysterious disappearance of the Tripolje culture, one people came in the place of others, conquerors arrived, but the chain of cultures never broke.
A number of monuments of the Bronze age are known (II millennium B. C.) near inhabited settlements Zastugna, Pogreby, Glevakha, Ivankovychi, Los’atyn and Maryamivka.
Some Scythian monuments (the 7th – 3rd century B.C.) remained on the banks of Stugna. In the territory of Vasyl’kiv district, there is a settlement and mysterious burial hills left after Scythians, in which numerous decorations and weapons were found. Over 400 burial hills were revealed only in the territory of the contemporary Vasyl’kiv. Most widely known of those are: the one near v. Pogreby – burial hill “Chortukha,” near v. Maryanivka – “Perepyatykha,” “Three Brothers” and others.

Vyshgorodsky district

The earliest record about Vyshgorod can be found in the Primary Chronicles of 946 a. d. where it is mentioned as an important military and strategic station of Kyiv State. It is quite plausible that the first fortification of Vyshgorod was made on order of Princess Olga. Perhaps it was the reason to call Vyshgorod the “Olga’s City.”
Vyshgorod started to spread out from the Settle-Mountain (Sel’-Gora). At the beginning, it was but a little town surrounded with a so-called Upper, or Old, bank stretching for 500 m. Later on they built a trading quarter eastward and southward from the fortification, while the fortified part was turned into a citadel under a name of the Lord which yet later became a yard of the Prince.
Five watchtowers were erected form which the inhabitants of the town were warned of a danger: one stood on the so-called Balytan’ of the Settle-mountain, the other towered on a ledge of the Lyub-mountain, and yet other three overlooked the town from artificially mounded hills of Nadvirya, Ostrozhysche and Bezimenny.

Volodarsky district

The first recode on Volodarka (Volodariv) is dated with the year of 1150, during the times of feudal civil strife among the princess for Kyiv.
The district also suffered invasion of Mongols and Tatars. In the spring of 1482, hordes of Tartar khan Mengli-Giray stroke Kyiv district with a deadly blow. Volodarka disappears from pages of history for more than 100 years.
After Union of Lublin of 1569, the lands of Volodarka district were situated at the suburbs of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth and remained to be a waste land. Inhabitants of Volodarka district participated in the uprising of Kryshtof Kosynsky, who assaulted Bila Tserkva from the direction of Volodarka district in winter of 1591. The inhabitants of Volodarke district neither stood off during Severin Nalyvayko’s revolt of 1594-1596. Royal charters testify to that stating that the lands owned by Cossacks of Volodarka and Rozvolozhsya (presently v. Antoniv of Skvyrsky district) were confiscated for their participation in the revolt. During the period of liberating war of 1648-1657, Volodarka district’s inhabitants declared that they supported their brothers, the Ukrainian Cossacks. In the early 20th century, Volodarka district turned into a large populated settlement.

Zgurivsky district

Urban-type settlement Zgurivka was founded in the 17th – early 18th century. In the middle of the 18th century, it already was a rather large settlement. According to the tradition, the village originated from an isolated farmstead inhabited by gentry Zgura and his dependent village dwellers.
In 1824, the village, as a train of the troops, was transferred into ownership of count A. V. Kochubey who built there a central estate of his surrounding his lands. In 1924, the private government system was liquidated, and Zgurivka was integrated into of Turiv district of Pryluki district where it remained until 1930. In that same year, Zgurivka was turned into a district centre of Lubenetsk district, in a year’s time it was included into Yagotyn district.
Since 1956, Zgurivka has been an urban-type settlement.

Ivankivsky district

Ivankivskyi district was established in 1923. It borders on the Republic of Belarus, Zhytomyr and Chernihiv region, Polisskyi, Borodianskyi, Vyshhorodskyi districts of Kyiv region.
First settlements appeared on the territory of modern Ivankiv long before Kyiv petty bourgeois Tyshko Proskura made the lands over to his son Ivan in 1589. Ivan set up a new settlement and named it after himself. On the south-eastern part of the settlement, where there is a picturesque city park now, one can see the preserved remnants of the ancient Russian settlement dating back to X-XI centuries.
Maria Ovksentiivna Pryimachenko, a prominent folk artist, Honored Art worker of Ukraine, master of folk art and a laureate of Shevchenko State Prize was born in Ivankivskyi district and created her works there. Her name made our land famous in the whole world. The art of a famous artist continues to live in the pictures of her son.
The land of Ivankivskyi district was a birthplace and start in life for many talented and kind-hearted people. One of the most talented of them was Hanna Ivanivna Veres, a People’s artist of Ukraine, Honored Master of Folk Art, and a laureate of Shevchenko State Prize, acknowledged master, whose marvelous pictures, tapestries and embroidered towels were exhibited in Toronto, Montreal, America, Finland, Germany, Yugoslavia and France.

Kagarlytsky district

Kagarlyk is an ancient populated locality. Records about it relate to the period of Prince’s age. It was mentioned for the first time in the chronicles in 1142. In 1631, Kagarlyk belonged to Poland and was separated into a single administrative district. In 1795, Katherine II presented Kagarlyk lands to D. P. Troschynsky.

Kyivo-Svjatoshynsky district

Kyiv-Svyatoshin district is rich in archaeological evidences pertaining to the ancient history ages from the late Tripolje culture (the 3rd—1st millennium B.C.) through the age of Kiev Russ.

Makarivsky district

From times immemorial in the territory of the district there were densely populated settlements. There are evidences of instruments of labour and remains of settlements of the late Neolithic and Bonze periods. From the North to the South, the territory of the district is crossed with four Serpent bulwarks – constructions of defence of the Kiev Russ age.
A bright page was written down by inhabitants of Makariv district into the chronicles of the war of liberation the Ukrainian people led under the guidance of Bogdan Kmelnitsky.
In 1651, in the family of Makariv centurion Sava Tuptalo, was born and grew up a well-known writer and member of clergy Danylo Tuptalo (Dmytry Rostovsky), consecrated a saint of the Orthodox Church.
The local inhabitants actively participated in risings of people: in 1664 under leadership of Dydyk and in 1704 under leadership of Semen Paliy. During the rising of the Ukrainian Cossacks (1768), the whole territory of the contemporary Makariv district was under control of a well-known leader born in v. Gruz’ke, Ivan Bondarenko.

Myronivsky district

An isolated farmstead of Poltava Cossack Myron Zeleny (Green) was founded in the first half of the 17th century. The name of the place is connected to his name.
Myroniv district is closely connected with such names as Colonel Samus’, the Branytski counts and other prominent figures.
In the 70s of the 19th century, an outstanding writer I. S. Nechuy-Levitsky, and in 1887 – writer Marco Vovchok repeatedly visited the place.

Obukhivsky district

In the territory of Obukhiv district, there are preserved monuments to all architectural ages lived through by the human civilisation in Ukraine. The Tripolje culture takes a special place (the name originated from Tripolje, the village in Obukhiv district), where the scientist-archaeologist V.V. Khvoiko researched the monuments of the type for the first time. This culture was formed in the 9th – 2nd millennium B.C. The legendary “Serpent Bulwarks” started their deviation from near Tripolje and Stayky.
Obukhiv district keeps many documentary and research evidences connected with the Cossacks’ age. Thus, almost all hetmans and leaders of the Ukrainian Cossacks were only in Tripolje castle. The 20th century was also rich in events that had a historical significance for Obukhiv district. There is evidence about rebellious actions of villagers of Kiev government under leadership of ataman (inhabitant of Tripolje) Green (Danilo Il’kovych Terpilo) against Bolsheviks and the White Guard. Tripolje defence foothold (1941) and two months’ defence battles in the autumn of 1943 came down to the history of the World War II.

Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky District

During its long history the land of Pereyaslav as a part of Kyivschyna, was an administrative centre of a historical area, the dimensions and borders of which changed a number of times. At the period of Kyiv Rus, it was a princehood of Pereyaslav which occupied all the territory on the left bank of Serednia Naddniprianschyna (Medium part of the Dnieper Ukraine) and the lands to the north-east, in 17-18 centuries it was an area of Pereyaslav regiment. In 1943 the name of the district was changed into Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky. Modern territory of Pereyaslavschyna preserves the memorials of the ancient Trypillia, Zarubinetska and Chernyakhivska cultures. A lot of these memorials were discovered on both banks of the Dnieper and also along the rivers Trubizh and Supoi. The local population took an active part in the upheavals of peasants and Cossacks against the occupancy of Polish noblemen in Ukraine
A heroic Bukrynskyi bridgehead is covered with glory. The land of Pereyaslav was in the centre of it. In this battle 267 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Here in the village of Kovalyn Maria Buriak, a famous artist, was born.
Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky district is located if geographical area of the Central forest-steppe. Its area is 1456 square kilometers. In the north and in the east it borders on Boryspilskyi, Baryshivskyi and Yahotynskyi districts of Kyiv region, in the south it is neighbouring Drabivskyi and Zolotonskyi districts of Kyiv region. The western border of the district stretches along Kaniv reservoir, the area of which within the region boundaries constitutes 20706.3 hectares.
 There are 51 settlements and 31 village councils in the region.

Three industrial enterprises specialized in products processing operate in the district: CJSC “Molproduct” (Dairy produce), OJSC “Pereyaslav experimental plant of cereal products”, production-commercial firm “Ukrpromstach-95 LTD”

Polisky District

Polissky district lies in the north of Kyiv region. As an administrative unit it was set up in the autumn of 1923. It occupies the area of 1.3 thousand of square kilometers. Polissky district is in the wet, moderately warm agro-climatic zone of Polissia lowland. A greater part of the territory is covered with forests, therefore from ancient times the local population went hunting, gathering mushrooms and berries. The river Uzh and its tributaries: Illia, Bober and Veresnia belong to the basin of the Dnipro river.

After the Chornobyl disaster in 1986 most part of the population was resettled.

Rokytnyansky district

Districtal centre Rokytne is an urban-type settlement situated along the small river of Rokyty.
The name of the inhabited place and the river originate from a well-known plant “rokyta” (osier-bed, many of which were growing on the river’s banks). Rokytne was mentioned in historical literature for the first time in 1590 as a waste ground they started to inhabit.
According to the tradition, the populated settlement was called Krotylov at the beginning, while the waste ground that they started to inhabit after the village had been ruined by Tartars, was called Bovkun, or Bovkunsky forest. The name originates from the name of its owner Bovkun, the forefathers of whose, or, perhaps, he personally, dealt with oxen (“bovkun” means an ox). In the territory of the town of Rokytne, on the left bank of r. Rokyta, discovered were remains of three settlements of Chernyakhivska culture.

Skvyrsky district

A system of Porossja bulwarks was created at the times of Yaroslav the Wise in the territory of Skvyrsky district . The towns of the district appeared mostly as paramilitary settlements.
The later Lithuanian and Polish sources of the 14th – 17th centuries contain some evidence on appearance of Skvyra and Skvyrsky districts the first landlord of which presumably was powerful Polovets khan Tugorkan exactly during that period of time (the late 11th century) . Svyatopolk married his daughter in 1094 which, as researches believe, enabled allotment of a separate Skvyrsky land lot in the Porossya to Tugorkan as a dowry for his daughter.
Appearance of the name of Skvyra cannot be inseparable from the name of the river on which banks it is situated. the town becomes an administrative centre and a centre for crafts and trades during the 14th—17th centuries.
In the first half of the 19th century, French writer Honoré de Balzac lived in Skvyrsky district in the village of Verkhovni in the land of Countess Ye. Rzhevuska-Hanska.

Stavyschensky district

Stavyschensky district enjoys a long history as testified with evidences of labour instruments of the Neolithic period, and numerous burial-mounts, groups of hills and settlements prove that the culture and vital functions existed there as long ago as in times of the ancient Russ. The village of Stavysche is also mentioned in the list of possessions of Ryzhynsky at the beginning of the 17th century. . This is the first record about the village. In 1935, Stavysche is already mentioned as a small town with a defensive fortifications and a military post. It was given a name of Magdeburg Rights.
In winter of 1655, a great battle between troops of B. Khmelnitsky and Polish and Tartar forces was broke off near Stavysche.
The villagers of Stavysche participated in rising of people of 1702-1704 led by S. Paliy, Z. Iskra, as well as in the Ukrainian Cossacks’ movement.
In 1774, the Polish Sejm transferred Stavysche into possession of K. Branytzky, crowned Ukrainian Cossack.
The overall collectivisation, dispossession of the kulaks, Holodomor of 1932-1933 and repressions of 1937-1938 badly affected the economic situation of the villagers of Stavysche district.

Taraschansky District

Taraschansky district occupies the area of 758 square kilometers in the southern part of Kyiv region. Tarascha - the central town of the district spread over the 34-th kilometer of the motor road running from Stavysche in the north-eastern direction.
Forests cover more than a third part of its territory, which was a pristine land before the XVII-th century, and are the main source of pride and a main decoration of the territory with oaks and hornbeam being the dominant trees. This deciduous “elite” forest grows slowly and always testifies to the fact that such forests are old and noble.
Among the houses of the region one may come across the constructions of unusual architecture, most part of which was built on the basis of the projects by a famous architect A. Zakharov (one of them is a detached house in the centre, the other – a tower of fire brigade). One of the ordinary buildings holds an amazing history: here a renowned scientist, nuclear physicist A. Alexandrov was born. There is a building of a former Roman Catholic church in which a music school houses now. Local history museum with more than 20 thousand exhibits always welcomes its visitors. All this testifies to the glorious past of the town.
Taraschanka park created with the help of the personnel of a botanic garden of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine boasts over 500 wood species that grow in it, among them there are “immigrants” from America, Africa and Asia.
A Cross Memorial to Georgiy Gongadze was erected in the outskirts of the city in 2003. Located on the edge of the road it reminds everybody of the tragic pages of modern history of the young independent state.

Tetiivsky district

Tetiiv has been known since 1185. The name of Tetiiv originated from the name of a Polovets khan Tetiy. During Slavs times, Tetiiv was called Tymoishnya.
Tartars completely ruined the town in 1240; nevertheless, Tetiiv resurrected from the ruins.
In 1606, Tetiiv was conferred the Magdeburg Rights.

Fastivsky district

Fastiv district is rich in historic and culture legacy. The history of Fastiv district reaches back into hoary antiquity and stems out from settlement of the district by early men. Princess Olga passed by Fastiv district with her armies and young prince Svyatislav; warriors of prince Vladimir also visited that place. Names of Bogdan Kmelnitsky and Cossacks’ Colonel Semen Paliy are connected with Fastiv district as well as those of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko and classic of the Ukrainian music Kyryl Stetsenko and others. 

Yagotynsky district

The first record on Yagotyn refers to 1552, while the first information on landlords of Yagotyn to the early 17th century.
The sojourn of T. G. Shevchenko in Yagotyn has a special significance. He arrived there for the first time in 1843 in order to draw two copies of portrait of M. G. Repnin. It was there that he painted that portrait, wrote “Tryzna” (Funeral feast) poem he devoted to Varvara, daughter of M. G. Repnin. Shevchenko visited Yagotyn in 1844, 1845 and 1859. His “Archaeological records…” belong to Yagonyn’s times, as well as drawing “Shevchenko draws a village yard” and novel “Twins.”
It was in Yagotyn district that a prominent people’s painter of Ukraine K. V. Bilokur (1900-1961) was born and worked, and her name is well-known far beyond this country’s borders.