Kiltseva Road ( uk, Кільцева дорога, Ring Road) is a street in the
Sviatoshynskyi,
Solomianskyi and
Holosiivskyi District
Holosiivskyi District ( uk, Голосіївський район, translit.: ''Holosiivs’kyi raion'') is an urban district of the city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
Holosiivskyi District was created during changing of administrative divisi ...
of
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
, Ukraine, running along the city's administrative border from
Odesa Square in the south where it intersects with the
M05 highway to an intersection with the
M06 highway and
Prospect Peremohy
Prospect Peremohy (, uk, Проспект Перемоги, lit=Victory Avenue, translit=Prospekt Peremohy), commonly known as Victory Avenue, is the second longest public roadway ( prospekt) in Kyiv, Ukraine. The roadway was created in the seco ...
in the north. The road servers as the western
bypass of Kyiv, forming the central part of a
beltway
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop, bypass or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city, or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist i ...
called the Great Beltway, which as of 2022 covers the part of the city on the right bank of the
Dnipro river
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.
The road is designated as local road T-10-27, and forms a part of
European route E40
European route E40 is the longest European route, more than long, connecting Calais in France via Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, with Ridder in Kazakhstan near the border with R ...
.
History
Kiltseva Road originated in the first half of the 20th century. It was called Okruzhna Street, and from 1965 to 1977 it was called the Great District Road. In 1977, it was connected to Velyka Okruzhna Street in
Sviatoshyn
Sviatoshyn ( uk, Свято́шин, Svjatóshin, ; also or ) 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 vi ...
(it appeared at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, until 1965 it was called the 4th Prosika, stretched from Peremohy Avenue to the end of the building near Mykhailo Kotelnikova Street).
Kiltseva Road is the namesake of
Kyiv Light Rail
Kyiv Light Rail or Kyiv Express Tram ( uk, Київський швидкісний трамвай, translit.: ''Kyivs’kyi shvydkisnyi tramvai'') is a light rail rapid transit service that serves the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The system is grade ...
station
Kiltseva Doroha, closed for reconstruction since 2018.
References
Streets in Kyiv
Ring roads in Ukraine
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