15 Facts About Korosten

Korosten is a historic city and a large transport hub in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine.

Korosten serves as the administrative center of the Korosten Raion, though administratively it is not part of the raion and is incorporated as a city of regional significance.

Korosten then asked them for a small request: “Give me three pigeons.

Korosten managed to persuade the Polish king to grant this small walled settlement the status of a city.

In 1768, during the Zaporozhian Cossack and Uman Cossack uprising Ukrainian cossack leader or haidamak Ivan Bondarenko of Kriukivshchyna intended to storm Korosten and incorporate it into his territory the uprising was crushed and his intentions were never realized.

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In November 1917, Soviet authority was established in the city, but later Korosten was occupied by the advancing Austro-German troops The German army would remained in Ukraine until November 1918.

On 27 February 1921 The Haydamatsky Kish of the Ukrainian People's Republic led by Symon Petliura, a separate Zaporizhzhya detachment led by Konstantin Prisovsky, and a unit of Sich Riflemen led by Yevhen Konovalets passed though Korosten, heading for Kyiv, in an attempt to recapture it from Bolshevik troops.

On 7 November 1921, during the November raid, Korosten, occupied by units of the 395th Rifle Regiment of the 132nd Brigade of the 44th Rifle Division of the Moscow Troops, attempted to capture the Volyn Group commander Yuriy Tyutyunnyk of the UPR Insurgent Army.

Korosten was occupied by the German Army from 7 August 1941 to 28 December 1943.

In Korosten nationalists carried out the killings by themselves, same as reported in Sokal.

In 2006, Korosten became one of the six cities in Ukraine that received a quality certificate according to international standards ISO 9001: 2000.

Viktor Vasylchuk, a well-known Ukrainian writer, Honored Journalist of Ukraine, and editor-in-chief of the Vecherniy Korosten newspaper was born, lives, and works in Korosten.

Flag of the city of Korosten is a panel with two horizontal stripes of the same width.

New coat of arms of the city of Korosten was developed taking into account the composition of the previous coat of arms.

Korosten is an important railway junction on the Kovel-Kyiv and Kelmenzi-Kalinkawitschy railway lines.