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Zhitomir Region Overview

Zhytomyr Oblast is an oblast of northern Ukraine. Its capital is Zhytomyr. Historically, the province is a part of Ukrainian Polissya.

The area of the region is 29,832 km?. Its population (as of 1 May 2004) is 1.342 million.

The economy of Zhytomyrs'ka oblast' mostly deals with mining of granite and other construction stone, forestry, agriculture and various machinery manufacturing.

The northern part of the province is highly affected by the Chernobyl accident: some of the towns and raions are devastated and included in the Chornobyl' zone, others prohibited from agriculture.

Important cities of Zhytomyrs'ka oblast' include:

• Baranivka
• Berdychiv
• Korosten'
• Malyn
• Novohrad-Volyns'kyi
• Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr (Ukrainian, Russian Житомир, Polish: Zytomierz) is the capital of the Zhytomyrs'ka oblast' in Ukraine. Geographical location 50°16? N 28°40? E. It has about 271,200 inhabitants (2004), and occupies an area of 65 km?.

Zhytomyr is a major transportation hub. The city lies on a historic route linking Kiev with the west through Brest. Today it links Warsaw with Kiev, Minsk with Izmail, and several major cities of Ukraine.

History
 
Zhytomyr was allegedly established in the 8th century by Zhytomyr, prince of slavic tribe of derevlians. The exact date of first mentioning, 988, is cut in the large stone of the ice age times, standing on the hill where Zhytomyr was founded. However the first records of the town date from 1240 when it was sacked by the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan. In 1320 Zhytomyr was captured by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and received Magdeburg rights in 1444. After the Union of Lublin the city was incorporated into the Crown of the Polish Kingdom. In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 it passed to imperial Russia. During a brief period of Ukrainian independence the city was for a few weeks in 1918 the national capital. From 1920 the city was under Soviet rule, and from 1991 is in the independent republic of Ukraine.

Natural Setting

Zhytomyr lies in a unique natural setting; all sides of the city are surrounded by ancient forests through which flow the Teterev, the Kamyanka, the Yaroshenka and the Putyatinka. The city is rich in parks and public squares

Mentions in Media

This city was mentioned in NBC police drama series Law & Order briefly in 2004, when a lawyer was forced to give out the identity of an internet chatroom user who was assumed to have information about a murder case, it was eventually revealed to be a red herring.

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