Where the Kozynka and Stuhna meet the Dnipro
Pliuty
Pliuty is a village on the Dnipro in the historic Koncha-Zaspa area, where the Dnipro, Kozynka and Stuhna rivers meet, and a house in Pliuty means life by big water. From the 1950s Ukrainian writers rested and worked here, and today the village is home to the Literary and Artistic Pliuty archive-museum.
Character and history
In 1954 the playwright Oleksandr Korniichuk built a dacha here on the Kozynka — the idea, it is said, came from the poet Andrii Malyshko. Later Yurii Smolych, Pavlo Zahrebelnyi and Kostiantyn Paustovsky worked and rested in Pliuty. Korniichuk's house-museum opened in 1972; since 1993 it has been part of the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art, and each spring hosts the Spring in Pliuty festival.
Location and homes
Pliuty belongs to Ukrainka urban hromada in Obukhiv district; Stuhna railway station is about four kilometres away. Encyclopaedias place the village within Koncha-Zaspa — the strip along the right bank of the Dnipro that also includes Kozyn and Vita-Lytovska. Homes here are country estates and small gated communities, some with a shared beach on the river.
Who it suits
Those for whom water and space matter more than being close to city blocks: mornings here begin with the river, not the highway. The honest drawback: Pliuty does not border Kyiv, so a daily commute means driving and allowing extra time.
- On the Dnipro bank
- Where the Kozynka and Stuhna meet
- Literary and Artistic Pliuty museum
- Koncha-Zaspa area
See also
Next steps in this district
- District guideCompare: Lisnyky district guide
- District guideCompare: Sviatopetrivske district guide