Places: 23
There is a route two hours from Kyiv that packs in almost everything people travel far and wide for: the ruins of a lavish palace steeped in ghosts and legends, 25-metre granite cliffs where climbers ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sokolovskyi Quarry is one of the most striking locations in Zhytomyr. It is not a natural lake, but a former granite quarry on the northern outskirts of the city, near Kroshnia, that was flooded by gr...
There are places people travel to not because they "must see" them, but because they want to return again and again. The Korostyshiv Canyon is precisely such a place. An artificial lake on the site of...
There are places where man is a guest. Where the silence of the forest is not measured by the absence of sounds, but quite the contrary — by the thick chatter of birds, the crunch of branches under an...
The Lyznyky quarry, located near the village of Lyznyk and the settlement of Chervonohranitne in the Zhytomyr region (Horoshiv hromada), is one of the largest and most famous granite deposits in Ukrai...
After the release of the music video for the song "12 obezian" by Serhiy Mikhatok and the Brutto band, filmed in a fisherman's cottage on an island in Staryi Solotvyn, this place unexpectedly got a ne...
