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Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr is situated in the north of
Ukraine on the Teterev river.
Its total area is 6100 hectars.
The city is divided into two districts,
and its population is 292 000.
Zhytomyr was founded, according to
the local legend, in the 9th century.
It is first mentioned in the chronicles
under the year of 1240, when it was de
stroyed by the Mongols.
It became a town in 1444.
The chief architectural monuments are
the Jesuit monastery, a Roman Catholic
church (1744), the Assumption Church
(1752), the Transfiguration Cathedral
(1866—1874), the city hal .
Zaporizhia
Zaporizhia is a historic region of
Ukraine.
The centre of Ukrainian Cossacks,
Zaporizka Sech, was situated there in
the 16th—18th centuries.
It played a very important role in the
struggle of Ukrainian people for their
independence.
Zaporizhia is considered to be a city
since 1806.
The city got its present name in 1921.
Zaporizhia region
The Zaporizhia Region is an admin
istrative territory in southeastern
Ukraine.
It is washed by the Sea of Azov.
Its total area is 27 200 km2.
Its population is 2 023 800.
The region is divided into 20 districts
and 14 cities.
The capital is Zaporizhia.
Its northeastern part lies in the
Dnieper Lowland, its southern part
in the Black Sea Lowland, and its
southeastern part in the Azov Upland.
Lutsk—Centre of theVolyn region
region
Lutsk, the main city of the Volyn
Region, was founded about 1000 A. D.
by Volodymyr of Kyiv.
The old town is a place of wooden
houses and green gardens.
The central place in the old town is Lu
bart’s Castle.
It was built by the Lithuanian prince in
the 14th century.
The most interesting building here
is the Jesuits’ complex on Cathedral
Street.
It looks like a big Easter egg from
inside.
Down Cathedral street you can see
a little park and memorial to Pasha
Savelova, a World War II partisan.
Volyn region
Volyn is an integral part of the inde
pendent Ukraine.
Its area is 20 200 km2.
The population of the region is
1 075 200 people.
The region is situated in the north
western part of Ukraine.
It borders on the Republic of Poland
in the west and on the Republic of
Belarus in the north.
It also neighbours upon the Lviv and
Rivne Regions of Ukraine in the south
and east.
The Volyn Region takes a favourable
geographical position and is situated
on the crossroads of the European
trade routes.
The Volyn Region has a rich mineral
and raw materials potential such as
the coal, peat and clay fields, beds
of various building materials that are
being exploited for a long time.
Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia is a city on the Buh river and
a region centre since 1932.
The total area of the city is
6100 hectars.
Its population is 391 700.
It is divided into 4 districts.
It was first mentioned in historical
documents in 1363, as a Lithuanian
fortress.
The settlement gradually developed
from a farming village into a
manufacturing and trading centre.
It became the region’s capital in 1932.
Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia is a city on the Buh river and
a region centre since 1932.
The total area of the city is
6100 hectars.
Its population is 391 700.
It is divided into 4 districts.
It was first mentioned in historical
documents in 1363, as a Lithuanian
fortress.
The settlement gradually developed
from a farming village into a
manufacturing and trading centre.
It became the region’s capital in 1932.
Vinnytsia region
At present, the Vinnytsia Region is
one of the largest agricultural and
industrial, cultural and historical
regions of the independent state of
Ukraine.
The new region was founded on
the 27th of February in 1932 and its
territory makes up 4.5 per cent of the
territory of state.
It is situated in the central part of the
RightBank Ukraine and borders upon
seven regions of Ukraine.
Uzhhorod
Uzhhorod (formerly Ungvar) is the south
ern gateway to the Ukrainian section
of the Carpathian Mountains, and the
main town of the Transcarpathian Re
gion of Ukraine.
It lies four kilometres away from the
Slovak border and 25 kilometres away
from the Hungarian border.
Uzhhorod has existed since 903 A. D.
Transcarpathia was in Hungary and
then in Czechoslovakia.
Only at the end of the World War II
Transcarpathia with Uzhhorod as its
centre became a part of Ukraine.
The river Uzh runs from east to west
across the city.
Uzhhorod Castle in its present form
was built in the 15th—16th centuries
against the Turks.
The palace in the centre of the city
houses the Transcarpathian Museum
of Local Lore.
Transcarpathiaisa Special region
region
Transcarpathia, the youngest of the
Ukrainian regions, is situated in the
far west of the country.
Since January 22, 1946 it has been in
cluded into Ukraine as administrative
and territorial unit.
The region is multinational.
Ukrainians constitute the major part
of its population.
It is known that more than 75 nation
alities live there.
Regional economy is closely
connected with its natural resources,
first of all, with forests and timber
processing.
Transcarpathia is rich in minerals: con
structing materials, brown coal, ores
of nonferrous metals, kaolin of high
quality, rock salt and gas.
Regional industry specializes in
timber processing industry, food
industry, industry of building
materials, light industry.
Regional agricultural complex is rep
resented by 192 enterprises of public
sector and more than a thousand
farms.