# Boiarka
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{{Short description|City in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Boiarka
| native_name = Боярка
| native_name_lang = uk
| settlement_type = [City](/source/City_status_in_Ukraine)
| image_skyline = Боярка. Лесничество.jpg
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| image_caption = One of the older homes on Kreshchatyk street
| image_flag = Прапор Боярки.gif
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| image_shield = Boyarka gerb.png
| shield_alt = Boyarka coat of arms
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| coordinates = {{coord|50|19|45|N|30|17|19|E|display=inline,title}}
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine)
| subdivision_type1 = [Oblast](/source/Oblasts_of_Ukraine)
| subdivision_name1 = [Kyiv Oblast](/source/Kyiv_Oblast)
| subdivision_type2 = [Raion](/source/Raions_of_Ukraine)
| subdivision_name2 = [Fastiv Raion](/source/Fastiv_Raion)
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| established_date = 16th century
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| area_total_km2 = 13
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| elevation_m = 186
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| population_total = 34394
| population_as_of = 2022
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| timezone = EET
| utc_offset = +2
| timezone_DST = EEST
| utc_offset_DST = +3
| postal_code_type = [Postal code](/source/Postal_code)|
| postal_code = 08150-08157
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| area_code = +380 4598
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| website = {{URL|http://www.boyarka-inform.com/}}
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| subdivision_type3 = [Hromada](/source/Hromada)
| subdivision_name3 = [Boiarka urban hromada](/source/Boiarka_urban_hromada)
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'''Boiarka''' or '''Boyarka''' ({{langx|uk|Боярка}}, {{IPA|uk|ˈbɔjɐrkɐ|ipa|audio=LL-Q8798 (ukr)-Gzhegozh-Боярка.wav}}) is a city in [Fastiv Raion](/source/Fastiv_Raion) of [Kyiv Oblast](/source/Kyiv_Oblast) ([region](/source/oblast)) in [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine), about 20 km southwest of [Kyiv](/source/Kyiv). It hosts the administration of [Boiarka urban hromada](/source/Boiarka_urban_hromada), one of the [hromada](/source/hromada)s of Ukraine.[{{cite web|title= Боярская городская громада |url=https://gromada.info/ru/obschina/boyarska/ |work=Gromada.info|language= ru|access-date= 2 June 2022}}] Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|34,394|.}} The population 40,019.[{{Cite web |date=2022-04-13 |title=Звітування територіальних громад - Інфобокс Prozorro |url=http://infobox.prozorro.org/articles/zvituvannya-teritorialnih-gromad |access-date=2025-07-17 |website=infobox.prozorro.org |language=uk}}]
==History==
There are traces of an old [Kievan Rus'](/source/Kievan_Rus') settlement, including the remains of an ancient cemetery. The railway reached the town in the 1860s, after which it became a favourite resort for artists and writers, including the composer [Mykola Lysenko](/source/Mykola_Lysenko) and the writer [Sholom Aleichem](/source/Sholom_Aleichem). The fictional ''[dacha](/source/dacha)'' settlement of Boyberik, where events of Aleichem's tales of ''[Tevye the Milkman](/source/Tevye_the_Milkman)'' (later adapted as ''[Fiddler on the Roof](/source/Fiddler_on_the_Roof)'') take place, is based on Boiarka.[Ivchenko (2007), p. 61]
Formerly known as ''Boyarka-Budayivka'' ({{langx|uk|Боярка-Будаївка}}), the settlement became known as a base of [Sich Riflemen](/source/Sich_Riflemen) during the [Siege of Kyiv](/source/Anti-Hetman_Uprising) in 1918.[{{Cite book|title=Енциклопедія українознавства. Словникова частина (ЕУ-II)|date=1993|volume=1|pages=169-179}}]
Until 18 July 2020, Boiarka belonged to [Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion](/source/Kyiv-Sviatoshyn_Raion). The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion was split between [Bucha](/source/Bucha_Raion), Fastiv, and [Obukhiv Raion](/source/Obukhiv_Raion)s, with Boiarka being transferred to Fastiv Raion.[{{Cite news|title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.|url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466|access-date=2020-10-03|date=2020-07-18|website=Голос України|language=uk}}][{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=Ukrainian}}]
During the [Russian invasion of Ukraine](/source/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine), Russian shelling struck the suburbs of Boiarka during the [Battle of Kyiv](/source/Battle_of_Kyiv_(2022)).
==Demographics==
As of the [2001 Ukrainian census](/source/2001_Ukrainian_census), Boiarka had a population of 34,502 inhabitants. The population is ethnically overwhelmingly [Ukrainian](/source/Ukrainians), but also includes a significant [Russian minority](/source/Russians_in_Ukraine). In terms of spoken languages,
86% speak [Ukrainian](/source/Ukrainian_language) as their first language, while 13% speak [Russian](/source/Russian_language_in_Ukraine) as their native language. The exact ethnic and linguistic composition of the city was as follows:[{{Cite web |title=Національний склад міст |url=https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/ethnic-cities |access-date=2024-07-11 |website=Datatowel.in.ua |language=uk}}][{{Cite web|url=https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001|title=Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України|website=socialdata.org.ua}}]
{{bar box|title=Ethnic groups in Boiarka|titlebar=#ddd|left1=|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|[Ukrainians](/source/Ukrainians)|dodgerblue|87.67}}
{{bar percent|[Russians](/source/Russians_in_Ukraine)|purple|10.32}}
{{bar percent|[Belarusians](/source/Belarusians)|red|0.61}}
{{bar percent|[Poles](/source/Polish_minority_in_Ukraine)|yellow|0.28}}
{{bar percent|[Armenians](/source/Armenians_in_Ukraine)|brown|0.23}}
{{bar percent|[Jews](/source/Ashkenazi_Jews)|black|0.12}}
{{bar percent|others|gray|0.77}}}}
{{bar box|title=Native languages in Boiarka|titlebar=#ddd|left1=|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|[Ukrainian](/source/Ukrainian_language)|dodgerblue|86.3}}
{{bar percent|[Russian](/source/Russian_language_in_Ukraine)|purple|13.1}}
{{bar percent|[Belarusian](/source/Belarusian_language)|red|0.1}}
{{bar percent|[Armenian](/source/Armenian_language)|brown|0.1}}
{{bar percent|others|gray|0.2}}}}
==Present-day==
The Kyiv Oblast [orphanage](/source/orphanage) is located in Boiarka.[{{Cite web |url=http://www.life2orphans.org/boyarka.htm |title=Webpage of Life2Orphans |access-date=2009-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517055914/http://www.life2orphans.org/boyarka.htm |archive-date=2008-05-17 |url-status=dead }}]
The town is also the location of the Boiarka [Metrological](/source/Metrology) Centre, owned by the company [Naftogaz](/source/Naftogaz), which provides [calibration](/source/calibration) services for [gas-flow](/source/flow_measurement) meters.[Brochure ''Metrological Centre NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" '', Kyiv, 2009]
During the years 2005 to 2007, the town hosted the now-defunct football club, [FC Inter Boiarka](/source/FC_Inter_Boyarka).
==Sport==
Boiarka has a team called [FC Inter Boiarka](/source/FC_Inter_Boyarka), that in 2001 was also coached by [Yukhym Shkolnykov](/source/Yukhym_Shkolnykov).
==Notable people==
* [Sholem Aleichem](/source/Sholem_Aleichem), writer
* [Sergei Balenok](/source/Sergei_Balenok), [graphic artist](/source/Graphic_designer), [painter](/source/Painting), [illustrator](/source/illustrator)
* [Eugene Hütz](/source/Eugene_H%C3%BCtz), singer and composer
* [George Kistiakowsky](/source/George_Kistiakowsky), physical chemistry professor
* [Maks Levin](/source/Maks_Levin), photographer
* [Mykola Lysenko](/source/Mykola_Lysenko), composer
* [Oleksandra Matviichuk](/source/Oleksandra_Matviichuk), human rights lawyer
* [Maryna Mirzaieva](/source/Maryna_Mirzaieva), nationalist and historian
* [Nikolai Ostrovsky](/source/Nikolai_Ostrovsky), writer
* [Mykola Pymonenko](/source/Mykola_Pymonenko), painter
* [Volodymyr Samiilenko](/source/Volodymyr_Samiilenko), poet
* [Bohdan Yermakov](/source/Bohdan_Yermakov), painter
* [Maria Zankovetska](/source/Maria_Zankovetska), actress
==Sources==
*Andriy Ivchenko, ''All About Ukraine'', Kyiv, 2007
*''Metrological Centre NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" '', Kyiv, 2009
==References==
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