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In early May 1986, the residents of the village of Tovstyi Lis were evacuated within a matter of days — forever. Along with them, the living parish community of the Holy Resurrection Church left the e...
In the village of Brovky Pershi in the Zhytomyr region stand the ruins of a palace that, just two decades ago, had a roof, windows, and entirely recognizable features of a noble estate. Today, only fr...
The masonry Church of the Ascension of the Lord in the village of Andrushky in the Zhytomyr region was built in 1850–1859 on the site of an older wooden church. Today, it is one of the main historical...
On Kyivska Street in Zhytomyr, a building has survived where writer and public figure Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky lived in the late 19th century. The future author of "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" lived ...
There are cities that remember themselves through monuments and castles. Baranivka remembers itself through tableware — and this is completely serious and with dignity. It is a small town in the Zhyto...
Andrushivka is a small town 47 km from Zhytomyr, on the Guiva River, with a population of under ten thousand. It received town status only in 1975 — before that it was long a small town, and even earl...
In the village of Topory in Ruzhyn hromada stand the ruins of the Holy Trinity Church — a place that looks abandoned today, but was once an important spiritual center. This is one of those sites where...
In the village of Verkhivnia in the Berdychiv district of the Zhytomyr region stands one of the most interesting estates in the region — the Hanska Palace, known today as the Honoré de Balzac Museum. ...
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...
There are places that do not advertise themselves. The mill in Pavoloch is one of them. It stands on the dam of the Rostavytsia River, silent, crumbling under the rain and wind, and waiting. It was bu...
At the beginning of the 19th century, Zhytomyr, despite its status as a provincial center, looked spiritually and architecturally impoverished from an Orthodox perspective. When the city officially be...
Zhytomyr region is not always associated with popular tourist routes, but it is here that places capable of surprising even experienced travelers are hidden. One of them is the Church of Saint Clara i...
