Lukianivka (neighborhood)

Lukianivka (Ukrainian: Лук'янівка), or Lukyanivka, is a historical neighborhood in the northwestern part of the city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

It is situated on the right bank of Dnieper, at a short distance from Babyn Yar (part of Kurenivka).

The Kyiv Metro station located in the neighborhood is Lukianivska, on the Syretsko-Pecherska Line.

The neighborhood was named after a Podil guildmaster and "began to grow after the great flood of 1845 forced many inhabitants to higher ground"; its population in 1874 was 9,806.

[1] In the spring of 1911, the body of Andrii Yushchynskyi was found in a cave in Lukianivka, leading to the Mendel Beilis case.