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

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Category:5th-century establishments in Europe
Category:Establishments in Ukraine
Category:480s establishments