Zhytomyr ... It would seem that there may be special?Yes, these parts are born brilliant designer, Sergei Korolev and a great writer Lesya Ukrainka.Another Zhytomyr region is famous for agriculture and granites.Someone heard of Berdichev, its famous church of the Discalced Carmelites.However, those who visited these parts, will not lie: Zhytomyr region - especially.It is necessary to lift the inconspicuous door ...
Geography
the region located in the central part of the East European Plain, in the north-west of Ukraine.It is bordered on the south by the Vinnitsa in the west - with the Khmelnytsky and Rivne, in the east - with the Kiev region and in the north - with the Republic of Belarus.Map of Zhytomyr region contained in the article, it clearly demonstrates.This region is an ancient Slavic land, which is called the Polissya.In its area, it ranks fifth in Ukraine - 29 900 square kilometers.Its length from north to south is 320, and from west to east - 170 km.The climate is temperate continental with warm, humid summers and mild cloudy winters with frequent thaws.The average temperature in the summer - plus 18.5 degrees Celsius in the winter - minus 5.5 degrees.Average annual rainfall is 753 millimeters.On the territory of the Zhytomyr region takes more than 220 rivers, they all belong to the basin of the Dnieper.The biggest of them - it Irsha, Irpen, case and black grouse.In addition, there are a lot of lakes.The territory is characterized by zones of forest and mixed forests.In the southern part of the region is dominated by black soil and in Woodlands - gray forest, marsh and sod-podzolic soils.The region ranks second in the country of forest plantations, forests (mainly conifers) are occupy 30 percent of the territory.
Zhytomyr region: districts, towns
administrative center is the city of Zhitomir.The region is represented by 23 districts: Andrushёvskim, Baranovsky, Berdichevsky, Brusilovsky, Volodarsky-Volyn, Emilchinsky, Zhytomyr, Korosten, Korostyshevsky, Luginskim, Lyubarskii, Malin, Narodichi Novograd Volyn, Ovruch, Olevskii, Popelnyanskim, Radomyshlsky, Romanovsky, Ruzhyn, Chervonoarmejsk, Chernyakhovsky, Chudnovsky.Zhitomir, Berdichev, Korosten, Malich, Novograd-Volyn, Andrushevka, Baranovka, Korostyshev, Radomyshl, Ovruch, Olevsk - the city of Zhytomyr region.In the whole region there are 1667 settlements.Of these five cities of regional importance, the six districts, 43 urban-type settlement.The number of rural councils is 579. That's just such administrative division represented Zhytomyr region.Villages account for most of human settlements in the region - 1613.
Economy
Since the Zhytomyr region is rich in forest and land resources, it determined its specialization - agricultural raw materials.The basis of the economy of the region is agriculture and agro-processing.In addition, it is making a considerable contribution to the construction industry, which is based on local raw material reserves.As the pace of growth of the main social and economic indicators, Zhytomyr region ranks fifth in Ukraine.
Industry
leading role in the regional economy play food industry, machine building and metalworking, light industry, timber and construction materials industry.Home metal products and mechanical engineering - Woodworking and metalworking equipment for the chemical industry, for feed and livestock, road equipment and machinery, spare parts for tractors, cryogenic equipment, tools and automation devices, electrical products and appliances intended for processing enterprises of agriculturecomplex.Light industry is represented mainly clothing, footwear, knitwear factories and production of linen fabric.Food industry represent more than 120 bakery, confectionery, up soft drinks, meat and dairy, sugar, flour, alcoholic beverage companies.Zhytomyr region has more than 60 plants for the production of building materials.
Agriculture
Zhytomyr region is one of three in Ukraine (together with the Chernihiv and Transcarpathian), which in the period of independence in the 90s of the last century there was almost no decline in agricultural production.In the agricultural sector in the region and the company employs 721 638 farmers, as well as seven thousand individual farms and more than 340 thousand private farms.Among agricultural noticed a slight superiority in the crop - 53 percent, respectively, the proportion of livestock was 47 percent.Crop represented grain and sugar beet area in the forest-steppe zone and corn-potato in Polesie.A significant proportion of industrial crops occupied the sugar beets, hops and flax.Livestock specializes in meat and dairy, in addition, sufficiently developed poultry farming, pig farming, sheep farming and beekeeping.
population
In the home to more than 1 million 266 thousand people.The urban population of the region is 56 percent, and agriculture - 44 per cent.The highest density of its accounts for the southern districts of the region, and Zhitomir and Berdichev.The region is home to 85 nationalities.The share of Ukrainians is 85 percent, about 8 percent of Russian.
Ukraine, Zhytomyr region: famous people
In the following famous people were born:
- Vladimir Korolenko Galaktionovich - Ukrainian and Russian writer.
- Lesia Ukrainka - the great poet of Ukraine.
- Lyatoshinsky Boris - a teacher, composer and conductor.It is one of the founders of modern directions of Ukrainian music.
- Olena Pchilka - Ukrainian writer, publicist, playwright.
- Sviatoslav Richter Theofilovich - known pianist.
- Joseph Conrad - the world-famous English writer.
- Maclay Nikolai - a writer, anthropologist and ethnographer, philosopher, geographer.
- Ogienko Ivan - Metropolitan, cultural scientist, linguist.
- Sergei Pavlovich Korolev - Designer, Academician.
It is interesting to know
1. In the town of Berdichev in the church of St. Barbara March 14, 1860 married Honore de Balzac and Evelina Hanska.
2. In the city of Berdichev in the church of the Discalced Carmelites is the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, who healed the Pope John Paul II.
3. In Berdichev, according to many, the mystical city that stood at the crossroads of time, there is an important Jewish shrine - the tomb of the leader of Hasidism tzaddik Levi Yitzhak Ben Meier, who was called Levi Yitzchak Berdichesky.This year comes to three thousand Jewish pilgrims from all over the world.
4. The region, near the village of Rudnya Zamyslovetskaya is a geological reserve, which is called "Stone Village".It is a jumble of huge boulders (glacial origin) among the forest that resemble petrified farmhouses.The stones are arranged in rows, like streets.This lost corner of the Polesie is a part of the "Seven Natural Wonders of Ukraine".
