It is an ancient, beautiful, green city with a rich history and hospitable people on the Teteriv River, a tributary of the Dnipro. The city is situated not far from the capital of our country, the city of Kiev.

An old city on the trade route from Scandinavia to Constantinople, Zhytomyr was known in 1240. It was part of Kievan Rus and later passed to Lithuania (1320) and Poland (1569). Awarded to Russia in the second partition of Poland (1793), it became an important provincial and trade center before the Bolshevik Revolution.

The region's potential of minerals and raw materials is represented by 278 deposits with 20 kinds of minerals. The mining industry here is extracting titanium ores, Dinas quarzites, and building and facing stones.

The region embodies one fifth of the country's reserve of rubble and crushed stone processed by a number of powerful companies. Decorative and facing stones - labradorite, granite, gabbro - are found in unlimited quantities.

Development of the deposit of easily polished marble with a marvelous pattern and extraction of semiprecious stones - beryl, topaz, quartz - are under way. Piezoelectric quartz crystal, a widely used component of any electronic device, is also available in this area.

The geographical position of the city is very favorable, because you can easily and quickly get to any part of Ukraine from here.

In this city you can find a lot of beautiful churches, buildings of historical value, interesting museums and green parks.