The capital city of Zhitomir oblast: Zhitomir.
Zhitomir oblast (also spelled Zhytomyr) is located in the central part of the East European plain, north of right bank Ukraine. Zhitomir region area is 4,9% of the territory of Ukraine. Zhitomir oblast area is one of the largest in Ukraine, fifth among all oblasts. The capital city is Zhitomir.
Zhitomir oblast population is about 1,283,000 (2010); land area is 29,800 sq. km.
Zhitomir oblast borders on the Republic of Belarus in the north, Khmelnitsky and Rivne oblasts in the west, Vinnitsa oblast in the south and Kiev oblast in the east. In its current borders, Zhitomir region was created in 1937. About 56% of Zhitomir oblast population is urban.
A combination of such factors as economic and geographical location, soil and climatic conditions, availability of minerals, raw materials, forestry and water resources creates favorable conditions for the development of agriculture and industry in Zhitomir oblast of Ukraine.
Zhitomir oblast includes 23 administrative districts, 4 cities, 5 towns and 978 villages.
Zhitomir is believed to date from the 9th century, but the first record is from 1240, when it was sacked by the Tatars.
For long a major trade focus and a seat of provincial government, Zhitomir region today is an important junction where the main rail and road routes westward from Kiev are crossed by north-south routes.
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Zhitomir oblast, Ukraine nature
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Zhitomir oblast industry: food-processing, machine-building, wood-working, building materials production and consumer goods industry; major national producers of porcelain, linen fabrics and hostelry.
Zhitomir oblast agriculture: all major agricultural cultures (grains, vegetables, potatoes, sugar beets) are being grown; the oblast is the national leader in hops and flax production.
Zhitomir oblast light industries chiefly process wood for furniture and flax for linen. Synthetic fibres are a recent extension of Zhitomir region textile industry.
Musical instruments, notably accordions, are a specialty of Zhitomir oblast of Ukraine.
Zhitomir oblast is a birthplace of an academician Sergey Korolyov, a poet Lesya Ukrainka, world-known writers Vladimir Korolenko, Josef Konrad, a pianist Svyatoslav Rikhter, a Ukrainian music classic Boris Lyatoshinsky.
It is a place where outstanding personalities lived and worked: writers Honore de Balzac, Mikhail Kotsyubinsky and Alexander Kuprin, a play writer Ivan Kocherga and producers Alexander Dovzhenko, Timofey Levchuk, an outstanding Ukrainian poet and translator Boris Ten.
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Zhitomir oblast scenery
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Zhitomir oblast, Ukraine church
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Zhitomir oblast church
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