Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr (Ukrainian: Жито́мир pronounced [ʒɪˈtɔmɪr], Roushie: Жито́мир, Pols: Żytomierz, Yiddish: זשיטאָמיר) is a ceety in the North o the wastren hauf o Ukraine. It is the admeenistrative centre o the Zhytomyr Oblast (province), as well as the admeenistrative centre o the surroondin Zhytomyr Raion (destrict), awtho it is no a pairt o it. Zhytomyr is locatit at aroond 50°16′N 28°40′E / 50.267°N 28.667°E, occupyin a aurie o 65 km2 (25 sq mi).
Zhytomyr Житомир | |
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 Kyivska (Kiev) street looking West toward St. Michael's Church. Photo early 1900s. | |
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  Zhytomyr Location o Zhytomyr | |
| Coordinates: 50°15′0″N 28°40′0″E / 50.25000°N 28.66667°ECoordinates: 50°15′0″N 28°40′0″E / 50.25000°N 28.66667°E | |
| Kintra |  Ukraine |
| Foondit | 9t century |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Volodymyr Deboi |
| Area | |
| • Total | 65 km2 (25 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 221 m (725 ft) |
| Population (2013) | |
| • Total | 271,172 |
| • Density | 4172/km2 (10,810/sq mi) |
| Postal code | 10000 — 10036 |
| Area code(s) | +380 412 |
| Website | Zhytomyr |
The current estimatit population is 271,172 (as o 2013).
Zhytomyr is a major transportation hub. The ceety lees on a historic route linkin the ceety o Kiev wi the wast throu Brest. The day it links Warsaw wi Kiev, Minsk wi Izmail, an several major ceeties o Ukraine. Zhytomyr wis the location o Ozerne airbase an aw, a key Cauld War strategic aircraft base located 11 km (6.8 mi) sootheast o the ceety.
Important economic activities o Zhytomyr include lumber millin, fuid processin, granite quarryin, metalwirkin, an the manufactur o muisical graith.[1]
Zhytomyr Oblast is the main centre of the Pols minority in Ukraine, an in the ceety itsel thare is a lairge Roman-Catholic Pols cemetery, foondit in 1800. It is regardit as the third biggest Pols cemetery ayont borders o Poland, ahint the Lychakivskiy Cemetery in Lviv an Rossa Cemetery in Vilnius.
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This airticle incorporates text frae a publication nou in the public domeen: Herman Rosenthal and Peter Wiernik (1901–1906). "Zhitomir (Jitomir)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Cite has empty unkent parameters: |HIDE_PARAMETER4b=,|HIDE_PARAMETER30=,|HIDE_PARAMETER5b=,|HIDE_PARAMETER3b=,|HIDE_PARAMETER2e=,|HIDE_PARAMETER3d=,|HIDE_PARAMETER1a=,|HIDE_PARAMETER3e=,|HIDE_PARAMETER33=,|HIDE_PARAMETER1b=,|HIDE_PARAMETER32=,|HIDE_PARAMETER4c=,|HIDE_PARAMETER2b=,|HIDE_PARAMETER31=,|HIDE_PARAMETER29=,|HIDE_PARAMETER3a=,|HIDE_PARAMETER1c=,|HIDE_PARAMETER1=,|HIDE_PARAMETER28=,|HIDE_PARAMETER26=,|HIDE_PARAMETER25=,|HIDE_PARAMETER4f=,|HIDE_PARAMETER4=,|HIDE_PARAMETER2=,|HIDE_PARAMETER34=,|HIDE_PARAMETER5f=,|HIDE_PARAMETER4a=,|HIDE_PARAMETER3c=,|HIDE_PARAMETER3f=,|HIDE_PARAMETER2f=,|HIDE_PARAMETER1f=,|HIDE_PARAMETER5e=,|HIDE_PARAMETER5=,|HIDE_PARAMETER4e=,|HIDE_PARAMETER5c=,|HIDE_PARAMETER5a=,|HIDE_PARAMETER5d=,|HIDE_PARAMETER4d=,|HIDE_PARAMETER1d=,|HIDE_PARAMETER2a=,|HIDE_PARAMETER2d=,|HIDE_PARAMETER1e=,|HIDE_PARAMETER6=,|HIDE_PARAMETER7a=, and|HIDE_PARAMETER2c=(help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)- Wendy Lower, Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine, 2005, University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2960-9. Introduction (online) Archived 2008-03-17 at the Wayback Machine accessed 19 July 2006.
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| Wikisource haes the text o the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica airticle Zhitomir. |
(in Inglis) Find out Zhytomyr @ Ukrainian.Travel Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Zhytomyr Journal - news, photo, map and other (in Roushie)
- hotels of Zhytomyr
- http://trindelka.com.ua/[deid airtin]
- interesniy.zhitomir.ua - a blog about history of Zhytomyr (in Roushie)
- Zhytomyr map - cafes, bars, restaurants Archived 2014-06-06 at the Wayback Machine, everything about the city (in Roushie)