Boiarka

Boiarka, also spelled Boyarka, is a city in Fastiv Raion of Kyiv Oblast in Ukraine, about 20 kilometres south-west of Kyiv, and the seat of the Boiarka urban hromada. Traces of an old Kievan Rus settlement survive there, including the remains of an ancient cemetery. After the railway reached the town in the 1860s it became a favourite resort of artists and writers, among them the composer Mykola Lysenko and the writer Sholem Aleichem, whose fictional dacha settlement of Boyberik in the Tevye the Milkman tales is based on Boiarka. The settlement was a base of the Sich Riflemen during the siege of Kyiv in 1918, and until July 2020 it belonged to Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion. A 2022 estimate puts the population at 34,394.