Places: 9
Mikhailivskyi Quarry is a small flooded water body near the village of Mykhailivka in the Korosten urban community, Zhytomyr Region. It is about 14–15 kilometers from Korosten. The quarry was formed o...
The flooded sand quarry near the village of Rudnya-Ozeryanska is a small body of water surrounded by Polissia forests in the Olevsk area of Zhytomyr Region. The lake covers approximately 4.5 hectares....
Novo-Ozeryansky Quarry is a flooded granite quarry near the settlement of Novo-Ozeryanka in the Olevsk urban community of Korosten District, Zhytomyr Region, Ukraine. A lake covering approximately 14....
Picture granite cliffs dropping sheer into a clear emerald lake, and above them a wall of pines and birches. This is not Scandinavia or Karelia, though the resemblance is striking. It is the flooded g...
According to legend, Korostyshiv arose back in the 6th–7th centuries — back then the settlement was called Khminychi and was a center of the Drevlyan tribe of the Minchany. The first written mention i...
About a hundred kilometres from Kyiv, on the outskirts of the town of Malyn in Zhytomyr Oblast, lies a small lake with crystal-clear water. Locals simply call it "Kalyuzha" (The Puddle). The name soun...
Sokolovskyi Quarry is one of the most striking locations in Zhytomyr. It is not a natural lake, but a former granite quarry on the northern outskirts of the city, near Kroshnia, that was flooded by gr...
There are places people travel to not because they "must see" them, but because they want to return again and again. The Korostyshiv Canyon is precisely such a place. An artificial lake on the site of...
The Lyznyky quarry, located near the village of Lyznyk and the settlement of Chervonohranitne in the Zhytomyr region (Horoshiv hromada), is one of the largest and most famous granite deposits in Ukrai...
