Place:Kiev, Ukraine

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Kyiv Oblast (translit. Kyivs’ka oblast’; also referred to as Kyivshchyna – ) is an oblast (province) in central Ukraine. The largest city in the oblast is Bila Tserkva.

The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Kyiv (Kyiv), also being the capital of Ukraine. Despite being located in the center of the Kyiv Oblast, and hosting the governing bodies of the oblast, Kyiv itself is a self-governing city with special status and not under oblast jurisdiction. The Kyiv Oblast neither corresponds nor is limited to the unofficially-designated Kiev metropolitan area.

History

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Kyiv Oblast was officially created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on February 27, 1932.

The current borders of the oblast were last set following the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Administrative oversight of the new city of Slavutych, which was constructed as part of the Chernihiv Oblast, was then transferred to the Kyiv Oblast (see Chernobyl zone below).

Earlier historical administrative units that later became the territory of the oblast include the Kiev Voivodeship under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Kiev Governorate under the Russian Empire. The northern part of the oblast belongs to the historical region of Polesia (Polissia).

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