Korosten, Ukraine - Zhytomyr Oblast T-Shirt

Korosten (Ukrainian: Ко́ростень, Russian: Ко́ростень) is a historic city and a large railway node in the Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative centre of the Korosten Raion (district), the city 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′. 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.