Demiivka

Demiivka (Ukrainian: Деміївка) is a neighborhood located in the Holosiiv Raion (district) of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

Until the 19th century the area was outside of the Kyiv city and was known as Lybidska zemlya (land of Lybid) which had a couple of small villages (sloboda) Verkhnyolybidske and Nyzhnyolybidske.

[1] In 1909 the Kyiv entrepreneur David Margolin opened in Demiivka a private city tramway company.

[1] Under such name, the neighborhood is mentioned in the work of Ukrainian writer Oles Ulianenko, "Stalinka", which received the junior Shevchenko National Prize (existed in 1997–1999).

[1] The Kyiv Central Bus Station and Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine are located in the neighborhood.

Demiivka in 1888 (as a suburb)