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Kiev (Kyiv) Ukraine city history articles

• Middle Ages through 17th century
• 18th century - 1917 Revolution
• Early Soviet Rule and World War II
• Post-WWII Soviet Rule
• Kiev modern times

The Kiev city began to revive as a Russian garrison town on the Polish border, but acquired renewed significance as a regional center only after the Russians acquired the west bank Ukraine in the second partition of Poland in 1793.

With the coming of the first railroad in 1869, Kiev city industry began to develop. Economic prosperity raised the Kiev city's population sevenfold, from some 35,000 in 1800 to 250,000 in 1900. The growth and economic development of Kiev city accelerated in the years before World War I, and by 1913 the Kiev city had 594,000 residents.