Kyiv

**Kyiv** or **Kiev** () is the capital and largest city in Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine on the Dnieper River. Over three million people live there.

It is not a part of any oblast. However, it is surrounded by Kyiv Oblast, and is the headquarters of Kyiv Oblast.

The city hosted the UEFA Euro 2012 final. Kyiv also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017.

Kyiv has a humid continental climate (_Dfb_ in the Köppen climate classification).

## Notable people

- Saint Anthony of Kyiv (c. 983–1073), founder of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer and playwright
- Boris Grinchenko (1863–1910), Ukrainian writer, linguist, and ethnographer, an important figure in Ukrainian national revival
- Oleksandr Dovzhenko (1894–1956), a pioneering filmmaker and writer in Soviet and Ukrainian cinema
- Volodymyr Horowitz (1903–1989), a prominent classical pianist
- Serhiy Korolyov (1907–1966), a prominent aerospace engineer and the chief designer of the Soviet space program
- Les Kurbas (1887–1937), Ukrainian theater director and innovator in modernist theater, founder of the Berezil Theater
- Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939–2002),  football player and coach, who led FC Dynamo Kyiv to international success
- Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935), Kyiv-born renowned avant-garde artist and founder of Suprematism
- Peter Mohyla (1596–1647), religious and cultural leader, who founded the Mohyla Academy in Kyiv
- Kira Muratova (1934–2018), Kyiv-born Soviet and Ukrainian film director and screenwriter
- Saint Olga of Kyiv (c. 890–969), Regent of Kievan Rus’ and one of the first rulers to convert to Christianity
- Symon Petliura (1917–1921), Ukrainian political and military leader during the Ukrainian War of Independence
- Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972), Kyiv-born aviation pioneer who developed the world’s first mass-produced helicopter
- Natan Sharansky (b. 1948), Kyiv-born human rights activist and an Israeli politician, a key figure in the Soviet dissident movement
- Andriy Shevchenko (b. 1976), Ukrainian footballer and coach,  who played in Dynamo Kyiv and AC Milan.
- Victor Skumin, Russian professor, philosopher, writer, psychologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and medical doctor
- Prince Vladimir the Great (c. 958–1015), Grand Prince of Kyiv, known for the Christianization of Kievan Rus’ in 988
- Prince Yaroslav the Wise (c. 978–1054), a key figure in the cultural and legal development of Kievan Rus’, who established the first legal code, _Russkaya Pravda_

## References

**Notes**

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Kyiv
- **other name**: Kiev
- **native name**: Київ
- **native name lang**: ukr
- **settlement type**: City with special status
- **imagesize**: 270px
- **image caption**: **Top-down, left-right** (from upper left): Verkhovna Rada, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Red University Building, House with Chimaeras, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument, Kyiv, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument, Independence Square (Ukraine), Independence Square
- **image flag**: Flag of Kyiv Kurovskyi.svg
- **image shield**: COA of Kyiv Kurovskyi.svg
- **shield size**: 75px
- **mapsize**: 230px
- **pushpin map**: Ukraine#Europe
- **map caption**: Kyiv in Ukraine
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: Ukraine
- **subdivision type1**: Administrative divisions of Ukraine, Municipality
- **subdivision name1**: Legal status and local government of Kyiv, Kyiv City Municipality
- **established title**: Founded
- **established date**: AD 482 (officially)
- **seat type**: City council
- **seat**: Kyiv City Council
- **parts type**: #Subdivisions, Raions
- **parts**: List of 10
- **p1**: Darnytsia Raion
- **p2**: Desna Raion, Kyiv, Desna Raion
- **p3**: Dnipro Raion, Kyiv, Dnipro Raion
- **p4**: Holosiiv Raion
- **p5**: Obolon Raion
- **p6**: Pechersk Raion
- **p7**: Podil Raion
- **p8**: Shevchenko Raion, Kyiv, Shevchenko Raion
- **p9**: Solomianka Raion
- **p10**: Sviatoshyn Raion
- **leader title**: Mayor of Kyiv, Mayor and Head of City State Administration
- **leader name**: Vitali Klitschko
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 839
- **demographics type1**: Nominal GDP, GDP (2017)
- **demographics1 title1**: Total
- **demographics1 info1**: US$26.29 billion
- **demographics1 title2**: Per capita
- **demographics1 info2**: US$8,970
- **population as of**: 1 January 2020
- **population total**: 2,967,360
- **population metro**: 3,375,000 (2013) of the Kyiv metropolitan area
- **population density km2**: 3299
- **timezone**: EET
- **utc offset**: +2
- **timezone dst**: EEST
- **utc offset dst**: +3
- **elevation m**: 179
- **population demonym**: Kyivan, Kievan
- **postal code type**: Postal code
- **postal code**: 01xxx–04xxx
- **area code**: +380 44
- **blank name**: Federal Information Processing Standards, FIPS code
- **blank info**: List of FIPS region codes (S-U)#UP: Ukraine, UP12
- **blank1 name**: Vehicle registration plate
- **blank1 info**: AA, KA (before 2004: КА, КВ, КЕ, КН, КІ, KT)
- **website**: [https://kyivcity.gov.ua/ kyivcity.gov.ua]