Batyieva Hora ( uk, Батиєва Гора) is a former village, and now a
historical neighbourhood in the
Solomianskyi District
Solomianskyi District ( uk, Солом'янський район, translit. ''Solom’ians’kyi raion'', "district of Solomianka") is a district in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Located in the western part of the city, in the basin of Lybid river ...
of
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe.
Kyi ...
, the capital of
Ukraine
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. It is located on the right bank of the
Dnieper
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The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and ...
, on the side of the hill above the river
Lybid
The Lybid ( uk, Либідь) 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 ...
. Burial grounds of
Zarubintsy culture
The Zarubintsy or Zarubinets culture was a culture that, from the 3rd century BC until the 1st century AD, flourished in the area north of the Black Sea along the upper and middle Dnieper and Pripyat Rivers, stretching west towards the Southern ...
dated in the 2nd-4th century AD were discovered in Batyieva Hora.
The neighbourhood was first mapped on Kyiv
city map
A city map is a large-scale thematic map of a city (or part of a city) created to enable the fastest possible orientation in an urban space. The graphic representation of objects on a city map is therefore usually greatly simplified, and reduce ...
s as "Batyievi graves". The village was founded and the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century and was populated by railroad workers.
Kuchmyn Yar Street is here.
References
{{Subdivisions of Kyiv
Neighborhoods in Kyiv
Hills of Kyiv
Solomianskyi District