Mykilska Slobidka

The Mykilska Slobidka (Ukrainian: Микільська слобідка; Russian: Никольская слободка, Nicholas village) was a former sloboda (settlement) located on the left-bank of Dnieper and outskirts of Bykivnia Forest.

Today, the settlement is now part of Livoberezhnyi Masyv of the Dnipro Raion (district) of Kyiv.

[1] Famed Russian poets Anna Akhmatova and Nikolay Gumilev were married in this church in 1910.

[1] From 1903 to 1923, the settlement was the administrative center of the Mykilsko-Slobidska Volost, in the Oster Povit of the Chernihiv Governorate.

[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.

View of the St. Nicholas Church in the Mykilska Slobidka with the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra seen in the background, ca. 1880s
Pustyno-Mykilsky Monastery, 18th century
View of the territory of the Mykilska Slobidka today, as seen from the city's right bank