kiev

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kiev
by george luna
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History

• During its history, Kiev, one of the oldest
  cities in the Eastern Europe, passed through
  several stages of great prominence and relative
  obscurity. Considered founded in the fifth
  century, a trading post in the land of Early East
  Slavs, the city gradually acquired eminence as
  the center of the East Slavic civilization, in
  the tenth to twelfth centuries a political and
  cultural capital of Rus', a medieval East Slavic
  state. Completely destroyed during the Mongol
  invasion in 1240, the city lost most of its
  influence for the centuries to come.

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map of surrounding areas
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kiev over the years

• The city prospered again during the Russian
  industrial revolution in the late 19th century.
  After the turbulent period following the Russian
  Revolution of 1917, from 1921 Kiev was an
  important city of Soviet Ukraine, and, since
  1934, its capital. During World War II, the city
  was destroyed again, almost completely, but
  quickly recovered in the post-war years becoming
  the third most important city of the USSR. It now
  remains the capital of Ukraine, independent since
  1991 following the collapse of the Soviet

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population
2,642,486
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Kiev from above
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The end