Average Temperatures:
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
-7 |
-5 |
-0.5 |
9.5 |
16 |
19 |
20 |
19 |
15 |
9.5 |
3 |
-3.5 |
Kiev (Kyiv) is the capital of Ukraine and is situated on the Dnipro River. The golden age of Kiev was in the 11th-12th centuries, when Kiev Rus was a powerful state, the centre of trading routes between the Baltic and the Mediterranean. Kiev is a leading industrial and commercial center of the country, the major industries include: food processing (especially processing of beet sugar), metallurgy, manufacture of machinery, machine tools, rolling stock, chemicals, building materials, and textiles. Borispol International Airport is 24 miles from the city centre and operates regular flights from 31 foreign airlines.