Yehupetz (Yiddish: יעהופיץ, Hebrew: יהופיץ, Ukrainian: Єгупець, romanized: Yehupets) is a semifictional city in the Russian Empire, a portrayal of Kyiv (Ukraine) in Sholem Aleichem stories.
[5][6] The actual name "Kiev" was used only in one of Sholem Aleichem's works: his 1916 autobiographical novel פונעם יאריד (Funem yarid, translated as From the Fair).
Tevye lived outside of a fictional Anatovka, a village near a settlement named called Boiberik (based on real-life Boiarka, a suburb of Yehupetz).
And these Yehupetz folks are all very refined people who are used to having everything served up to them—wood for the fire, meat and eggs, chickens and onions, peppers and radishes.
Suddenly our rich people panicked and stampeded out of Yehupetz, heading abroad, supposedly to the spas to take the waters, to the mineral baths to calm their nerves—pure nonsense."
A very unpleasant image of an unnamed town was given in the novel The Bloody Hoax, but numerous hints, such as "a large glorious city where a Jew needs a residence permit", point at Kyiv.