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...
Belarusian Polissia is a natural, historical and geographical region in the south of Belarus. Its landscapes are shaped by rivers, wetland lowlands, peat bogs, forests and lakes. It is home to the anc...
Hadzynka Pond is a small rented body of water right at the entrance to the village of Hadzynka, 15 km from Zhytomyr towards Kyiv. People come here in summer for carp, grass carp, and crucian carp, and...
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....
In the north of the Zhytomyr region, there is a river known perhaps only to avid water tourists — the Zherev. It is the largest tributary of the Uzh (96 km long), winding through Polissian forests fro...
Few people know that an hour and a half away from Kyiv, there is a river section that kayakers themselves call the most extreme on the entire Teteriv River. The Zhytomyr — Korostyshiv stretch is about...