page_title: Sviatoshyn
section_title: Dacha village
hierarchical_section_title: Sviatoshyn / History / Dacha village
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Колишній особняк Дьякова на вулиці Львівській, 80 у Києві English: Former Dyakov's manor in 80 Lvivska Street, Kyiv, Ukraine
context_page_description: Sviatoshyn is a historical neighborhood and a suburb of Ukraine's capital Kiev that is located on the western edge of the city area, in an eponymous municipality.
  Previously it was a dacha village in a pine grove which was included into the Kiev city council area in 1919.
context_section_description: In 1897 the Sviatoshyn land, which had been occupied by a pine grove, was divided into 450 lots and leased for 99 years. Thus а dacha village (summer colony) was set up there.
  A grid plan was implemented in the village. That area master plan is typical of dacha summer settlements. The core road of Sviatoshyn was Brest-Litovsky highway, now Peremohy Avenue, that went from east to west dividing the village into two unequal parts.
  The village grid plan
  Streets from east to west
  Streets from north to south
  Initial name
  Northern Street
  Brest-Litovsky Highway
  Pushkinka Street
  Petropavlivska Street
  Southern Street
  Present name
  Feodory Pushynoii Street
  Peremohy Avenue
  Lvivska Street
  Verkhovynna Street
  Mykhaila Kotelnykova Street
  Initial name
  1st Prosika
  2nd Prosika
  3rd Prosika
  4th Prosika
  5th Prosika
  Present name
  Anatoliia Petrytskoho Street
  Ivana Kramskoho Street
  Fedora Krychevskoho Street
  Great Ring Road
  Zhyvopysna Street
  A prosika (Ukrainian: просіка, Russian: просека, (old: просѣка)) means a narrow straight glade in a forest, in which trees have been cut down for further road laying or other business purposes.
  The villa projects were created by the Kiev architects Alexander Krivosheiev and Alexander Khoinatsky. A lot of powerful, influential and rich people had villas there. In particular, villa owners were Kiev University professors, three Kiev mayors, businessmen including members of the "sugar magnate" Tereshchenko family.
  The popularity of the villa area was growing up because of a pine grove, a pond and a good transport infrastructure. Simultaneously with developing the land area, in 1898 a narrow-gauge railway was laid from Kiev and it was used as a horsecar tram line then steam tram-cars operated there. In 1901 the village was connected to an electricity network so on the 1st of May that year electric trams were launched. In 1902 Kiev - Kovel railway, which goes along the east edge of Sviatoshyn village, was finished up building and Sviatoshyn Railway Station was opened.
  In 1911 one of the oldest Kiev's cinemas Ekran (screen) was opened at the corner of Brest-Litovsky Highway and the 3rd Prosika.
  Between the village and Syrets suburb was Sviatoshyn Airfield where the pilot Pyotr Nesterov introduced his famous aerobatics flights.
  In 1919 the village was included into the Kiev City Council area.
caption: The former dacha villa of I. Diakonov Kiev mayor (1906-1916, 1918)
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