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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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...
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...
Rivne Polissia is the northern part of Rivne Oblast, a historical, ethnographic, and natural region within Ukrainian Polissia. This is where asphalt and haste end, and pine forests, endless bogs, quie...
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...
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...
Hamarnia is a landscape reserve of local importance located on the outskirts of Malyn in Zhytomyr Region. It is a large natural area that combines forest landscapes with part of the Malyn Reservoir on...
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...