Sviatoshyn (Ukrainian: Свято́шин [sʲw(j)ɐˈtɔʃɪn]; also Свято́шино[citation needed] or Свято́шине) is a historical neighborhood and a suburb of Ukraine's capital Kyiv that is located on the western edge of the city area, in an eponymous municipality.

Previously it was a dacha village (summer colony) in a pine grove which was included in the Kyiv city council area in 1919.

[11] There is a document "The report of the Committee to facilitate accomplishment of the villa area in the locality Sviatoshyn of the Kyiv province and district.

[16] Despite there being a Sviatoshyn (Святошин) article included in Kyiv (Encyclopedic reference book) [uk] that was published by the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia editorial office.

[20] Before the Kievan Rus epoch it was a territory of Eastern Polans and approximately 10 kilometres to the west, on the left bank of the Irpin River, Drevlians' land began.

It is alleged that in the 12th century the owner of this land was Nikola Sviatosha [uk] (Sviatoslav), the Prince of Chernigov, who donated it to the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.

[22] The first mention of the area name Sviatoshyn was in 1619, when this land was a part of the Kyiv Voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Union of Lublin.

At that time the king Sigismund III Vasa determined the metes and bounds of Kyiv's burgesses land possession in his charter.

Until the end of the 19th century, that land had been mentioned like Sviatoshyn wood, grove or forest, and it was a part of the Bilychi volost of the Kyiv Governorate.

The core road of Sviatoshyn was Brest-Litovsky highway, now Peremohy Avenue [uk], that went from east to west dividing the village into two unequal parts.

Simultaneously with developing the land area, in 1898 a narrow-gauge railway was laid from Kyiv and it was used as a horsecar tram line then steam tram-cars operated there.

Between the village and Syrets [uk] suburb was Sviatoshyn Airfield where the pilot Pyotr Nesterov introduced his famous aerobatics flights.

In 1921 Bolsheviks conducted the administrative subdivision reform, so Kyiv was divided into 5 raions (districts) and Sviatoshyn was included into the City Council area permanently.

[24] However, on the south-west edge of Sviatoshyn the Roman Catholic parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was existing during the whole time of the Communist rule.

There are a complex of monuments at Soviet soldiers' graves who killed in battle of Kyiv in 1943 at the Sviatoshyn Cemetery [uk].

At the end of the 1940s Sviatoshyn Airfield was passed to ownership of an aircraft serial production plant that since 1952 has been headquarters of Antonov state company.

[28] Late in the 1950s the new housing estate Akademmistechko [uk] was started building on the land of the former vegetable farm "Sviatoshyn", that had been located north of the neighbourhood.

In 1979–1980 the Ukrainian poet and Soviet political prisoner Vasyl Stus was living in apartment building at 13-a Chornobylska Street [uk] in that housing estate.

The monument to victims of that tragedy was erected at the initiative of the "Chernobyl Disabled Union" on 26 April 1994, with funds of the local budget and private donations.

It is named after the poet and political prisoner Vasyl Stus, who was one of the most significant members of the Ukrainian cultural movement of the sixtiers.

[33] In 2006 at the initiative of the Ukrainian People's Party and Green World [uk] NGO,[34] a local community meeting was conducted, it was decided to establish Vasyl Stus garden square.

In March 2007 the Kyiv City Council supported this initiative and local volunteers including students of schools 140 and 200, clean up the plot on Earth Day.

There were Vasyl Stus's widow and his sister, who was a refugee from the Donetsk Oblast because of the Russo-Ukrainian War, granddaughter, friends-sixtiers, public activists and local community residents present in the ceremonial unveiling of the garden square.

[38] Sviatoshyn Railway Station [uk] is a point which all electric multiple unit trains go through from Kyiv towards the North-West direction.