Kiev (Ukrainian: Київ; Russian: Киев) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the northern center of the country on the Dnieper River. Counting the city's population 2.6113 million people in 2001 was, however, given numbers greater than that in the local press.
Kiev is the industrial center, educational and culturally important in Eastern Europe, it is home to high-tech industries and many of the institutions of higher education, it is also site of many famous archaeological areas. The city has an infrastructure is extensive and well-developed system of public transport, including the Kiev Metro.
Kiev said that the name is derived from the name "Ki", which is one of the four founders of the city Alostoran. The city of Kiev is one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, and gone through several periods in which gained great glory or severely degenerated degeneration. Perhaps the city is a shopping center before the fifth century AD, until seized by the Franks (Vikings) in the mid-nineteenth century. The city became the capital of the Franks in the era of the Russians, and the first state of the Eastern Slav. The city was completely destroyed during the Mongol invasion in 1240, and has lost most of its influence in the following centuries.
Kiev again prospered during the Industrial Revolution in the Russian Empire in the late nineteenth century, then became in 1917 - after the independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic from the Russian Empire - the capital of the new Republic. Since 1921, Kiev has become an important city in the Soviet Republic of Ukraine Alachtrakihoosubht its capital city suffered in 1934. During World War II again significant damage, but quickly recovered in the subsequent years of the war, was then the third largest city in the Soviet Union. Kiev remained the capital of Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukraine's independence in 1991.
