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Kyiv Polissia an hour away from the capital

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Kyiv Polissia an hour away from the capital

Kyiv Polissia begins just beyond the city limits: as soon as you head north or northwest from the city, you are surrounded by pine forests, sandy shores, quiet rivers, and the wide expanse of the Kyiv...

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Zhytomyr Polissia: granite, Drevlians and rhododendron

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Zhytomyr Polissia: granite, Drevlians and rhododendron

Zhytomyr Polissia is the highest, rockiest, and least swampy of all Polissia regions. Here, beneath pines and sand, lies the granite of the Ukrainian Shield: it surfaces in cliffs over the Teteriv Riv...

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What to see in Volyn Polissia

Volynian Polissia is a region where Ukraine feels most like its ancient self: pine forests, hundreds of lakes, slow rivers with dozens of branches, and villages where people still bake bread in wood-f...

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Polish Polissia: What to see beyond the Bug

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Polish Polissia: What to see beyond the Bug

Polish Polissia is the western edge of the vast Polissian world, stretching from the Bug to the Dnipro. Scholars call it Western Polissia (Polish: Polesie Zachodnie): it is an ethno-cultural region wi...

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Belarusian Polissia: Pripyat, swamps and ancient towns

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Belarusian Polissia: Pripyat, swamps and ancient towns

Belarusian Polissia is a natural, historical and geographical region in the south of Belarus. Its landscapes are shaped by rivers, wetland lowlands, peat bogs, forests and lakes. It is home to the anc...

48 views · 26 October 2026

The Zherev River in Zhytomyr Region: wildlife and incredible landscapes

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The Zherev River in Zhytomyr Region: wildlife and incredible landscapes

In the north of the Zhytomyr region, there is a river known perhaps only to avid water tourists — the Zherev. It is the largest tributary of the Uzh (96 km long), winding through Polissian forests fro...

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Teteriv from Zhytomyr to Korostyshiv: rapids, "geyser" and turquoise canyon

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Teteriv from Zhytomyr to Korostyshiv: rapids, "geyser" and turquoise canyon

Few people know that an hour and a half away from Kyiv, there is a river section that kayakers themselves call the most extreme on the entire Teteriv River. The Zhytomyr — Korostyshiv stretch is about...

118 views · 4 August 2026

From a haunted palace to a hundred-year-old watermill: the wild Teteriv route two hours from Kyiv

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From a haunted palace to a hundred-year-old watermill: the wild Teteriv route two hours from Kyiv

There is a route two hours from Kyiv that packs in almost everything people travel far and wide for: the ruins of a lavish palace steeped in ghosts and legends, 25-metre granite cliffs where climbers ...

4683 views · 29 July 2026

The Uzh River: Polissia's wild river of granite, ruins and legends

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KOROSTEN POLISSYA TOURISM ZHYTOMYR REGION

The Uzh River: Polissia's wild river of granite, ruins and legends

There is a river in Polissia that paddlers remember with a mix of love and a faint shiver of fear. The Uzh — a right-bank tributary of the Prypiat, 256 kilometres long and up to 40 metres wide — flows...

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Granite Canyon on the Teteriv River — Zhytomyr Oblast

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Granite Canyon on the Teteriv River — Zhytomyr Oblast

There are things that residents of Zhytomyr talk about in passing, while tourists from other cities find out and simply cannot believe. The Granite Canyon on the Teteriv is not located somewhere in th...

471 views · 1 May 2026