Kijevo, Belgrade

Kijevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Кијево) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Rakovica.

Location

Kijevo is located on the southwestern slopes of the Straževica hill, in the central part of the municipality, on the mouth of the stream of "Kijevski potok" into the Topčiderka river. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Petlovo Brdo on the west, Labudovo Brdo and Kneževac on the north and Resnik on the southeast. Area south of Kijevo, the "Klik"' and "Šabinac" meadows, is still not urbanized. Kijevo had the population of 9,239 in 2002.

Economy

A former village, through urbanization Kijevo became the southern extension of Rakovica and a mostly industrialized area. The most important feature in the neighborhood is the quarry which supplies the entire Belgrade's building industry with stone and slates. The remaining industry is also mostly into construction and building (building companies and cement plants "Komgrap", "Graditelj", etc).

Kijevo is important traffic crossroad. Crossing of the Belgrade-Niš and suburban Belgrade's railway is located here, with several tunnels and "Kijevo" railway station. "Kružni put" or "circular road" which rounds through the entire southern outskirts of Belgrade passes here, also with a tunnel in Kijevo.