Iron County Record | 1919-12-05 | Page 7 | Kiev, with About 500,000 Inhabitants, Combination of Both the Old and New

Kiev, With About 500,000 Inhabitants, Combination of Both the Old and New Kiev contains about BOOyOOO Inhabitants, Inhabi-tants, and comprises four distinct ills iricts, which nmy nlso be called sep urate towns. I'odol, the commercial quarter, skirts the river Dnieper, and thOVe It, on u steep declivity, Is I.lpki, the residential quarter, and nil enchanting en-chanting spot In summer, with Its handsome villas embowered In dark, luxuriant folliiRc. North of that Is Kiev proper, which contains the university and the cathedral cathe-dral of St. Sophia, u hulldliiR erected In the eleventh century, but so con-stnntly con-stnntly repaired and added to that it Is now a huge and towering structure with more than a dozen large golden domes. Here nlso are the theaters, hotels and shops, which are quite as modern mod-ern us those of I'etrograd or Moscow. I'etchersk, the fourth district. Is honey combed w-lth enves and catacombs that In olden days were used as places of refuge and as monnstlc cells, and where, during holy festlvuls, one can scarcely move throiiRh the dense crowds of pOgrtasa, of whom .'100,000 annually visit this ancient and revered monastery.