Sviatoshynskyi District

Sviatoshynskyi Raion (, "Sviatoshynskyi Raion") is an urban district in the city of Kyiv located at the western part of city. The district was created in 2001 after renaming the former Leningrad District. It borders four other districts in Kyiv such as Podilskyi District, Obolonskyi District, Solomianskyi District, Shevchenkivskyi District as well as the Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion and city of Irpin that administratively are part of Kyiv Oblast. Its name raion takes from one of its historical neighborhoods.
Historical neighborhoods.
The raion includes number of neighborhoods Svyatoshyn, Borshchahivka, Akademmistechko, Aviamistechko, Bilychi, Bratska Borshchahivka and many others.
Kyiv-Svyatoshyn Raion.
The governing bodies of the adjacent Kyiv-Svyatoshyn Raion of the Kyiv Oblast are situated in the Sviatoshyn Raion of Kyiv as the former oblast raion is purely suburban and lacks a distinctive center settlement.