Mykilska Slobidka

View of the St. Nicholas Church in the Mykilska Slobidka with the Kiev Pechersk Lavra seen in the background. ca. 1880s
View of the territory of the Mykilska Slobidka today, as seen from the city's right-bank.

The Mykilska Slobidka (Ukrainian: Микільська слобідка; Russian: Никольская слободка) was a former sloboda (settlement) located on the left-bank outskirts of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Today, the settlement is now part of the Livoberezhnyi neighborhood of the Dnipro Raion (district) of Kiev.

History

In the 18th century, the remains of the Mesolithic Dnieper–Donets culture were found on the territory of the Mykilska Slobidka.[1] In 1508, the territory belonged to the Pustyno-Mykilskyi Monastery, from which the settlement received its name.[2][3]

In the 18th century, the settlement was inhabited by the Kiev Arsenal workers.[3] From 1802 to 1902, the settlement was part of the Brovary Volost. In 1858, the settlement consisted of 76 residences, 350 residents, and the St. Nicholas Church.[1] Famed Russian poets Anna Akhmatova and Nikolay Gumilev were married in this church in 1910.[2] The settlement had a small lake named Sviatysche located to its north, and a small settlement exclave named Buhry to the lake's north.[1]

From 1903 to 1923, the settlement was the administrative center of the Mykilsko-Slobidska Volost, in the Oster Povit of the Chernihiv Governorate.[4] In the early 1910s, the settlement was home to the city's tram depot,[4] located in between three tram routes which ran through the settlement.[5] It is particularly notable since the two city's banks were then administratively part of other governorates (Kiev and Chernihiv, respectfully).[4]

When Kiev's city limits were expanded to the left-bank in 1923, the settlement became a part of the city.[3] In the 1930s, Soviet authorities closed the functioning church and monastery down, and repressed the local archimandrite. In 1935, the monastery and bellower were demolished, and a new park and street were built in its place.[6] During the 1960s to 1970s, the territory of the Mykilska Slobidka was demolished to make way for the Livoberezhnyi neighborhood;[7][8] nothing remains of the original settlement except for one pre-revolutionary building.[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Brovarska Darnytsia". Do nas, do Brovarschyny (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  2. 1 2 "History of the neighborhood around the Levoberezhnaya metro station". kievphotosite.com (in Russian). Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "KYIV TODAY. MYKILSKA SLOBIDKA". UKRINFORM (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 "A little history of the development of tram connections across the Rusanivka bridge". Community organization "Committee of Rusanivka neighborhood" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  5. ↑ Mashke, S. "Schemes and lists: 1936". In Memory of Kiev trams (in Russian). Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  6. ↑ Halaiba, Vasyl. "St. Nicholas Church in Kyiv". www.cerkva.kiev.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  7. ↑ "Historical Reference". Dnipro Raion of Kiev City State Administration (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  8. ↑ "Mykilska slobidka". Site of the History of Kyiv (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  9. ↑ "Levoberezhnyi / Nikolskaya slobodka". artemco.livejournal.com (in Russian). LiveJournal. Retrieved 30 April 2014.

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Coordinates: 50°26′51″N 30°35′48″E / 50.44750°N 30.59667°E / 50.44750; 30.59667

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