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Country
  
Ukraine

Founded
  
1701 A.D.

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Population
  
3,509 (2001)

Province
  
Kiev Oblast

District
  
Kiev-Sviatoshyn Raion

Elevation
  
175 m (574 ft)

Area
  
4.42 km²

Local time
  
Saturday 12:00 PM

Rural Council
  
Kriukivshchyna Rural Council

Weather
  
4°C, Wind SW at 18 km/h, 75% Humidity

Kriukivshchyna (Ukrainian: Крюківщина) is a village in the Kiev-Sviatoshyn Raion (district) of Kiev Oblast in northern Ukraine.

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Map of Kriukivshchyna, Kyivs'ka oblast, Ukraine

Name

Predating the modern village, at the end of 16th century this territory belonged to a settlement called Yurevychi. Later it became known as Kryvkovshchyna, which is derived from anthroponym Kryvko-Kryvkovych, the family of local landowners circa 16th century. Eventually the name had changed to Kriukivshchyna due to loss of historical connections (apparently in the same way as several neighboring villages, e.g. Zheliany changed to Zhuliany).

History

  • Lavrentii Pokhylevych writes in his "Story of Kiev Governorate's Settlements" (1864):
  • "Kriukivshchyna is a village in 2 versts from the village of Hatne near an unnamed stream, which dries up in summer on an elevated plain with rare, for these places, shrub copses. 642 dwellers as well as 12 Jews live here together with Shakhravshchyna. Shakhravshchyna is a separate part of the village by the river Veta. It is populated by the descendants of a Moldovan named Davyd who married a Ukrainian woman in Monastyrysche. That's why all the contemporary dwellers of Shakhravshchyna are called Davydenko. In addition to this local folks tell that on a hill between Shakhravshchyna and Kriukivshchyna, where traces of some kind of settlement can be seen, a knyaz Shakhrai once lived, who owned all the neighboring villages. There's a tract near Shakhravshchyna called Tur's valley. A story says that some 200 years ago Kriukivshchyna and Shakhravshchyna were surrounded by dense forests. Kriukivshchyna, Shakhravshchyna and Yurivka belonged to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery before all estates were taken from the monasteries…"
  • "Exaltation of the Cross wooden church, 5th class; has 51 tithes of land; built on the place of the previous one in 1792. Has been fixed: in 1808 by the parish and in 1852 on expense of the treasury. Yurivka is included in the parish."

    • References

    Kriukivshchyna Wikipedia
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