Kievskaya oblast

Kiev region - region in the north of Ukraine is located in the Dnieper River basin . The region is located upstream reservoirs Dnieper cascade - the Kiev Sea.

It shares borders with Belarus. Founded in 1932. The population of nearly 2 million people. not counting the population of Kiev.

The region includes settlements in 1184 , including 1129 in rural areas.

In the XIV-XVII centuries . area subjected to the invasion of Batu Khan . This has forced residents to leave the inhabited earth and go to safer areas - on the Volyn, in Galicia , north- eastern Russia. Due to weaken Russia , part of its land in vXVII .was captured by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kiev in 1362 the land , including Kiev, and Podolia Pereyaslavschina were in the possession of the Lithuanian feudal lords .

In 1569 there was a single state Rzeczpospolita , where, and entered the Kiev province .

After the entry of Ukraine into the Russian gosudarstvav 1708 was founded Kiev Province .

Today, Kyiv Region is a region with developed industry and agriculture. The main industries of electric power and food industries stand out as engineering and metalworking, chemicals and petrochemicals .

The main attractions of : national history and ethnographic reserve Pereyaslavl State Historical and Cultural Reserve in Vyshgorod and others.

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