Shota Rustaveli Street () is a street in the neighborhood of Besarabka (named after the nearby

Bessarabska Square The Bessarabska Square (, ''Bessarabska ploshcha'') is a square located at the southwest end of Khreshchatyk, the main thoroughfare of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is located in the city's Shevchenkivskyi District (district), at the busy in ...

and

market Market is a term used to describe concepts such as: *Market (economics), system in which parties engage in transactions according to supply and demand *Market economy *Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market *Marketing, the act of sat ...

) in the

Pecherskyi District Pecherskyi District () is an Urban districts of Ukraine, urban district of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It lies within the eponymous historical neighborhood, while also including some other historical areas. The Pechersk (, ) neighborhood is lo ...

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

. It runs from Baseina Street to Zhylianska Street.

History

The street arose in the 1830s in connection with the planning and construction of the area in the valley of the

Lybid The Lybid () is a small river in Kyiv, Ukraine. A right tributary of the Dnieper, it flows within the "Right Bank" (original) part of the city, just to the west of the historic center. The Lybid has played an important role in shaping Kyiv's ur ...

. At first, it was called Mala Vasylkivska (laid parallel to Velika Vasylkivska). In 1926, it was renamed Borochov Street, in honor of the Jewish public figure

Ber Borochov Dov Ber Borochov (; – 17 December 1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement. He was also a pioneer in the study of the Yiddish language. Biography Dov Ber Borochov was born in the town of Z ...

. It received its current name in 1937 in honor of the medieval Georgian poet

Shota Rustaveli Shota Rustaveli ( ka, შოთა რუსთაველი, – after c. 1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of the g ...

Notable buildings

* Brodsky SynagogueВиталий Ковалинский
Синагога Лазаря Бродского
. Уикэнд, 30.08.2013 (Vitaliy Kovalinskiy. ''Lazar Brodsky Synagogue''. Weekend, August 30, 2013; in Russian)

References

{{reflist Streets in Kyiv