Places: 16
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...
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...
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...
The urban-type settlement of Chervone lies southwest of Andrushivka, in the Berdychiv district of Zhytomyr Oblast, and is the center of the Chervone hromada. According to the 2001 census, 2,974 people...
A few kilometres to the north-west of the urban-type settlement of Ruzhyn lies the village of Bystryk, one of the ancient settlements of the Ruzhyn region. The first records of the village date back t...
Bililivka is a village in the Ruzhyn hromada of the Berdychiv district in Zhytomyr region, located 20 km west of Ruzhyn. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 2,193, yet the village's h...
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...
The village of Khodorkiv, located in Zhytomyr Oblast on the banks of the Irpin River, has a much deeper and richer history than it might seem at first glance. In the past, it was a town that played a ...
A trip from Kyiv to the west along the M-06 highway passes for a long time through areas where historical buildings have hardly survived. Numerous architectural monuments of the Kyiv region were lost ...
The village of Zarichchia, formerly known as Balamutivka, lies on the southern outskirts of the urban-type settlement of Ruzhyn in Zhytomyr Oblast. It is separated from Ruzhyn by the Rostavytsia River...
Stara Chortoria is a village on the banks of the Sluch River, which is part of the Liubar settlement hromada of Zhytomyr Raion. According to the 2001 census, its population was 1,398. The history of t...
In the village of Hadzynka near Zhytomyr, one of the region's least researched sacral structures has survived — the Church of Saint Michael. Despite its architectural and historical value, the church ...
