Places: 11
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
The Rostavytsia River is neither the widest nor the longest in Ukraine. But among local lore enthusiasts, it is particularly famous: no other river of comparable length has preserved as many ancient w...
In the urban-type settlement of Huiva, just a few kilometres from Zhytomyr, there is a unique World War II site — the field headquarters of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler named "Hegewald" (which tra...
Zviahel (known in 1795–2022 as Novohrad-Volynskyi) is one of the oldest towns in Ukrainian Polissia, with a history closely linked to the Middle Ages, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuani...
