Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Zhytomyr Oblast as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zhytomyr Raion. The city of Zhytomyr is not a part of Zhytomyr Raion the city itself is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast moreover Zhytomyr consists of two so-called raions in a city Bohunskyi Raion and Koroliovskyi Raion named in honour of Sergey Korolyov. Zhytomyr occupies an area of 65 square kilometers. Zhytomyr is a major transportation hub. The city lies on a historic route linking the city of Kiev with the west through Brest.

Today it links Warsaw with Kiev, Minsk with Izmail, and several major cities of Ukraine. Zhytomyr was also the location of Ozerne airbase, a key Cold War strategic aircraft base 11 kilometers southeast of the city. Important economic activities of Zhytomyr include lumber milling, food processing, granite quarrying, metalworking, and the manufacture of musical instruments. Legend holds that Zhytomyr was established about 884 by Zhytomyr, prince of a Slavic tribe of Drevlians.