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Rusanivka () is a man-made island and neighbourhood surrounded by a canal, the ''Rusanivs'kyi Kanal''. The canal is an artificial distributary of the Dnieper River. The river and canal make the neighborhood resemble an island. The island is located in the left-bank part of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is surrounded by neighborhoods such as Hidropark, Darnytsia, Berezniaky, and Livoberezhnyi Masyv.

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Rusanivka () is a man-made island and neighbourhood surrounded by a canal, the ''Rusanivs'kyi Kanal. The canal is an artificial distributary of the Dnieper River. The river and canal make the neighborhood resemble an island. The island is located in the left-bank part of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is surrounded by neighborhoods such as Hidropark, Darnytsia, Berezniaky, and Livoberezhnyi Masyv.

== History == During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian shelling struck the neighborhoods of Rusanivka during the Battle of Kyiv.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rusanivka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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