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The name Kiev is said to gain from the name of Kyi, one of four well-known founders of the city. During its history, Kiev, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, approved through several stages of great distinction and comparative darkness. The city may have been founded in the 5th century as a trading post, maybe part of the land of the early Slavs. It steadily acquired eminence as the centre of the East Slavic civilization, becoming in the tenth to twelfth centuries a political and cultural capital of Rus', a medieval East Slavic state. Totally cracked during the Mongol invasion in 1240, the city lost most of its influence for the centuries to come. It was a provincial capital of minor significance in the bounds of the territories restricted by its powerful neighbors: first the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, followed by Poland and Russia. The city prospered again during the Russian industrial revolution in the late 19th century.

Kiev is located on both sides of the Dnieper River, which flows south through the city towards the Black Sea. The older right-bank part of the city is represented by several wooded hills, ravines and small rivers. It is a part of the superior Dnieper Upland adjoining the western bank of the Dnieper in its mid-flow. Kiev prolonged to the Dnieper's lowland missing bank only in the twentieth century. Noteworthy areas of the left-bank Dnieper dell were unnaturally sand-deposited, and are sheltered by dams.

Kiev has a continental humid climate. The sincere months are June, July, and August, with mean temperatures of 13.8 to 24.8 °C.The coldest are December, January, and February, with mean temperatures of −4.6 to -1.1 °C. The highest ever temperature recorded in the city was 39.4 °C (103.0 °F) on 31 July 1936. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the city was -32.2 °C (-26.0 °F) on 7 & 9 February 1929.

Starting in the late ninth century Kiev was ruled by the Arranging nobility and became the nucleus of the Rus' polity. Kiev is recognized as a green city with two botanical estate and several large and small parks. The green environment of the city is perhaps most distinguished by the green hills of the right bank beside the Dnieper River that have been relatively unaffected by progress. The World War II Museum is located here, which offers both indoor and outdoor displays of military history and equipment surrounded by verdant hills overlooking the Dnieper River.