Korosten (Ukrainian: Коростень, translit. Korosten’) is a historic city in the Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Korosten Raion (district), the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is located on the Uzh River.
The city was founded over a millennium ago and was the capital of an ancient Slavic state that was later incorporated into Kievan Rus′. Originally, it was called as Iskorosten which later was simplified. Remarkably, not far from Korosten there is another city with a similar name, Korostyshiv, which is next to Zhytomyr.
Currently the city is relatively small, mainly because of the fact that it is located very close to Chernobyl. After the nuclear incident, the area around the city was declared a zone of a voluntary evacuation.
Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev (Kyiv) is both the capital and the largest city of Ukraine.
