Left-bank (Kiev)
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This article is about the eastern bank of the Dnieper in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The eastern bank is the left bank when one is facing south from Poland or Russia.
The river Dnieper provides a boundary that influences many things. The "left bank" is associated with, for example, Cossack loyalists to Russia, and Ukrainians who speak Russian somewhat more prevalently than Ukrainian.
In Kiev the left bank, a low, flat plain, has been urbanized for less than two hundred years, and is somewhat residential, while the right bank -- a hilly, highly historical area, is very industrial, with business and governmental buildings.
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