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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 ...
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...
Mykhailivska Street is one of the most atmospheric places in Zhytomyr. As the city's historic pedestrian center, it has remarkably preserved much of its early architecture, offering visitors a glimpse...
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...
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...
In the very heart of the urban-type settlement of Khoroshiv in the Zhytomyr region lies an old green area — the Horoshkivske Zamchyshche park. This is not just a park for walks, but a historical lands...
Right on the border of Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr regions, away from the main tourist routes, stands a building for which it is worth driving extra kilometers. The Kornytskyi estate in the village of Roha...
In the ancient Polissian town of Ovruch, which was called Vruchiy in the times of Kievan Rus, stands a church whose history spans nearly nine centuries. This is St. Basil's Church (Holy Basil Cathedra...
In the village of Rayhorodok in the Berdychiv district of the Zhytomyr region, amidst an old park, stands a building that still holds on despite decades of decay — the Mazaraki Villa. This is one of t...
Amidst the Polissian landscapes of Zhytomyr region, in the village of Horbuliv, hides one of the most fascinating and at the same time most tragic monuments of sacred architecture in the region — the ...
On the banks of the Sluch River, in the Romaniv hromada, lies the village of Vilkha (historical name — Ulkha). One of the most luxurious aristocratic residences of 19th-century Volhynia once stood her...
