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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.
About Solomianka Raion
Where to stay in Solomianka Raion
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
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.
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.
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Updated July 2026