city
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Bucha Raion
Bucha Raion () is a raion (district) of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Bucha. One abolished raion, Borodianka Raion, parts ...
,
Kyiv Oblast
Kyiv Oblast (, ), also called Kyivshchyna (, ), is an Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, which is administered as a city with special sta ...
of north
Ukraine
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hromada
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s of Ukraine, formed on 12 June 12 2020 and including nine neighbouring villages: Bobrytsia, Horenytsia, Myzychi, Sviatopetrivske, Hnativka, Stoianka, Shevchenko, Nehrashi, and Luka.
One of the nine component villages, Hnativka, is perhaps better known by its Hebrew and Yiddish name '' Anatevka'', and is the site of a modern-day refugee village which was named after the fictional town of Anatevka from the
Sholem Aleichem
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stories, including ''
Fiddler on the Roof
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'', stories which were set in this same area of the former Kiev Gubernia.
History
The village was established in 980 as the legendary city-castle
Bilhorod Kyivskyi
Bilhorod Kyivskyi () or Belgorod Kiyevsky () was a legendary city-castle in Kievan Rus',''Віталій Непомящих''Вивчення історії дослідження Білгорода КиївськогоІнститут архео ...
, located in Kyivan Rus'. It was located on the right bank of
Irpin River
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Until 18 July 2020, Bilohorodka belonged to 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, Fastiv, and
Obukhiv Raion
Obukhiv Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Obukhiv. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and ...
s, with Bilohorodka being transferred to Bucha Raion.
Geography
The village lies at an
altitude
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of 152 metres and covers an
area
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of 55 km². It has a
population
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