Kovalivka () is a village of

Bila Tserkva Raion Bila Tserkva Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Bila Tserkva. Population: . On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was ...

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 ...

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. It hosts the administration of

Kovalivka rural hromada Kovalivka rural hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Bila Tserkva Raion, Kyiv Oblast. Its administrative center is the village of Kovalivka. It has an area of and a population of 6,566, as of 2020. The hromada contains 9 settlements, ...

, one of the

hromada In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...

s of Ukraine. The village is administered by its own rural council. The population is approximately 1,500.

Geography

The village is located over a pond that was created on the Kamianka River which is a tributary of

Ros River The Ros () is a river in Ukraine, a right tributary of the Dnieper. The Ros finds its source in the village of Ordyntsi in Pohrebyshche Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .Kiev Voivodeship The Kiev Voivodeship (; ; ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793, as part of Lesser Poland Province of ...

of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1753 here was built a wooden church of St. Volodymyr dedicated to

Vladimir the Great Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych (; Christian name: ''Basil''; 15 July 1015), given the epithet "the Great", was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his death in 1015. The Eastern Orthodox ...

. Following the

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in 1793, the village was taken over the

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. In 1797 Kovalivka became a center of

volost Volost (; ; ) was a traditional administrative subdivision in Kievan Rus', the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and the Russian Empire. History The '' Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary'' (1890–1907) states that the origins of the concept is unc ...

within the Vasilkov uezd. During the Soviet period, the village housed the Shchors collective farm (

kolkhoz A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz. These were the two components of the socialized farm sector that began to eme ...

) which after

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was reorganized into an agro firm "Svitanok". Since 1985 Kovalivka is dominated by a local agrarian company "Svitanok" (meaning "Dawn"), formerly "Kolhosp imeni Shchorsa" which is controlled by the Zasukha family (Anatoliy and Tetiana). In 1996 in the village was built a Church of

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( Ukrainian Orthodox Church). In 2007 in Kovalivka started to be built a

convent A convent is an enclosed community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The term is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglican ...

of St.Anastasia dedicated to the Russian Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (

Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), commonly referred to by the exonym Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), is an Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church was officially formed in 1990 in pla ...

, UOC-MP). Since 2009 Kovalivka hosts ethnic festival "Zhnyva" (Reaping). In 2014 in the village was opened the Church of St.Tetiana dedicated to

Tatiana of Rome Saint Tatiana was a Christian martyr in 3rd-century Rome during the reign of Emperor Severus Alexander. Biography According to legend, she was the daughter of a Roman civil servant who was secretly Christian, and raised his daughter in the fai ...

( UOC-MP). Until 18 July 2020, Kovalivka belonged to

Vasylkiv Raion Vasylkiv Raion () was a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was Vasylkiv which is incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 ...

. 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 Vasylkiv Raion was split between Bila Tserkva,

Fastiv Fastiv (, ) is a city in the Kyiv Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. On older maps it is depicted as Khvastiv (; ). Administratively, it serves as the administrative centre of the Fastiv Raion (district), to which it does not administratively ...

, 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 Kovalivka being transferred to Bila Tserkva Raion.

Points of interest

* Kolos Stadium, home stadium of the local football club

FC Kolos Kovalivka FC Kolos Kovalivka () is a professional Ukrainian football club from the village of Kovalivka, Vasylkiv Raion, Kovalivka, Kyiv Oblast which competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, having been promoted from the Ukrainian First League on the 8 Ju ...

References

External links

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