One of the Ukraine's principal manufacturing centers, Kiev city specializes in the production of complex machinery and precision equipment using steel products from the Ukrainian iron and steel mills of the Dnepr Bend (along the river's lower course) and the Donets Basin (Donbass).
Among the principal industrial enterprises of Kiev city are the old Arsenal arms plant, halfway between Kreshchatik and the Lavra; the Bolshevik plant, in the western part of the city, a producer of chemical equipment; the Leninskaya Kuznitsa river shipyard; and the Gorky automated machine-tool plant.
Electrical precision instruments are manufactured by the Tochelektropribor factory. Other industrial products turned out in the Kiev city include aircraft, motorcycles, photographic equipment, cable and rubber goods. Some of the new industrial enterprises, including an artificial fiber mill, are situated in Kiev city east-bank section called Darnitsa.
The Kiev city has major rail and highway links with the rest of the Ukraine and is served by an airport at Borispol, 20 miles (33 miles) to the east. A smaller airport at Zhulyany, on the southwest outskirts, is used for local flights.
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