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Solomianka Raion, Kyiv — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Solomianka Raion is a railway-built inner borough of Kyiv, home to the Ukraine State Aviation Museum.
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Where to stay in Solomianka Raion
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
Solomianka Raion covers the ground west of central Kyiv where the railways cross, and its beds gather in two moods. One clusters around the station approaches and the Kyiv railway transport museum, handy for travellers who need a train the next morning. The other sits quieter, out toward the National Aviation University and the parkland by Mamajeva Sloboda, and it suits anyone who would rather trade the platform noise for leafy streets within a short ride of the museums and the district's aviation collections.
Choose the tracks, or choose the trees.
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By the railway approaches
the eastern streets run down to the rail corridor beside the Kyiv railway transport museum, putting the platforms and the district's train heritage a short walk from the doorFind hotels in By the railway approachesa calmer stay near the aviation collections and the Ukraine State Aviation MuseumAround the National Aviation University
the university quarter holds the Ukraine State Aviation Museum and quieter residential blocks, trading the station bustle for green campus streetsFind hotels in Around the National Aviation Universityguests wanting parkland and the open-air Cossack village at Mamajeva SlobodaNear Mamajeva Sloboda
the western fringe opens onto the Mamajeva Sloboda living-history grounds, a wooded pocket well away from the rail tracksFind hotels in Near Mamajeva SlobodaHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Kyiv
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Museums & Galleries
2- Ukraine State Aviation Museum
- Museum of the National Aviation University
Churches & Religious Sites
3- Церква ікони Божої Матері «Знамення» (Київ)
- Spaso-Preobrazhensʹka Church of the UOC
- Ставропігійна козацька церква Покрова Пресвятої Богородиці
Castles & Historic Sites
3- Пам'ятник Миколі Стражеску Heritage
- Vlas Chubar monument in the Kiev
- Nikolai Ostrovsky Monument
Parks & Gardens
1- Mamajeva Sloboda
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About Solomianka Raion
What are the main landmarks in Solomianka Raion?
Aviation gives the borough its headline. The Ukraine State Aviation Museum lines up decommissioned aircraft near the National Aviation University, while the Kyiv railway transport museum keeps the rolling stock that built these streets. History runs the other way too.
Mamajeva Sloboda rebuilds a Cossack-era Ukrainian village of thatched cottages and a wooden church, the Spaso-Preobrazhensʹka Church of the UOC gathers worshippers among the old blocks, and the Nikolai Ostrovsky Monument marks the Soviet decades the district also carries.
What is the history of Solomianka Raion?
The railway made Solomianka Raion. Drawn up as a formal district of Kyiv in 1921, it grew from the settlements of railway workers who serviced the lines threading west out of the city, a heritage the Kyiv railway transport museum still keeps in its sheds and stock. Aviation came next.
Flight schools and works drew engineers to the ground that would carry the National Aviation University and eventually the Ukraine State Aviation Museum, turning a plain rail suburb into a home for the whole country's air trade.
Where is Solomianka Raion?
Solomianka Raion spreads across the hills west of central Kyiv, an inland borough of some forty square kilometres where the rail corridors converge and residential slopes give way to the parkland around Mamajeva Sloboda.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Solomianka Raion?
By the railway approaches: travellers timing an early Kyiv train around the Kyiv railway transport museum. Around the National Aviation University: a calmer stay near the aviation collections and the Ukraine State Aviation Museum. Near Mamajeva Sloboda: guests wanting parkland and the open-air Cossack village at Mamajeva Sloboda.
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Updated October 2026