Flat (Kiev area)

Ploskoe (Ploskoe) ( Ukrainian: Ploske, Ploske ) is a historical place in the Podolsky district of the city ​​of Kiev . Roughly extends between the streets of Nizhny Val , Kirillovskaya , Zavodskaya and Kiev harbor.

Adjacent to the areas of Rybalsky Island , Schekavitsa and Yurkovitsa . Monuments of Trypillian culture were first found on the territory of Ploskoy, and the Kirillov site was excavated.

In the days of Kievan Rus, it was a handicraft suburb of Kiev, known as the settlement of Ploskolesk or Plesnesk. It was destroyed during the invasion of the troops of Batu Khan . In the Middle Ages, the village of Ploskolesky Slobodka or Flat Forest appeared at this place. In 1539 it is referred to as s. Flat, whose lands in the XVII century were divided between the Cyril Monastery and the Department of the Catholic Bishop. Since 1787 - in state ownership. At the end of the XVIII century, after the arrangement of the riverbed Glubochitsy , or Ditches. The adjacent quarters of Ploskoy are referred to as Zakanavye. The old buildings and layout of Ploskoy were destroyed during a fire in 1811 . During the reconstruction of Podil in the 1810-30s, the Flat was absorbed by him and as an independent settlement ceased to exist.

In the years 1834-1919 in Kiev, the Plosky police unit operated (in 1797-1834 - the 2nd Podolsky unit, in 1917-1919 - the Plossky district), which covered Ploskoye, Kurenivka and Priorka , and until 1879 - also Lukyanovka with Raw .

The name Ploskaya street until 1869 had a significant part of the modern Kirillovskaya street between Yaroslavskaya street and Podolsky descent .