| Zhytomyr (also known as Zhitomir) city is the | | | | available in this area. |
| capital of Zhitomir region, central Ukraine, on the | | | | There are also deposits of high quality pyrophyllite. |
| Teteriv River, a tributary of the Dnieper. It is a | | | | The oblast is interested in mobilizing investments |
| road and rail junction in an agricultural area. | | | | and finding partners for pyrophyllite extraction and |
| Industries include lumber milling, food processing, | | | | development. Among other deposits requiring |
| granite quarrying, metalworking, and the | | | | funding by investors, there is a unique quartzite |
| manufacture of musical instruments. An old city | | | | deposit. It contains about 84% of the country's |
| on the trade route from Scandinavia to | | | | quartzite reserves. These raw materials are used |
| Constantinople, Zhitomir was known in 1240. It | | | | for lining blast furnaces and preparation of |
| was part of Kievan Rus and later passed to | | | | ferroalloys. |
| Lithuania (1320) and Poland (1569). Awarded to | | | | A combination of such factors as economic and |
| Russia in the second partition of Poland (1793), it | | | | geographical location, soil and climatic conditions, |
| became an important provincial and trade center | | | | availability of minerals, raw materials, forestry and |
| before the Bolshevik Revolution. | | | | water resources creates favorable conditions for |
| Zhitomir region. Area - 29,900 sq. km. Population - | | | | the development of agriculture and industry |
| 1,460,000 | | | | The list of Ukraine Airway Companies: Ukraine |
| Zhitomir region is located in the central part of the | | | | International Airlines, Volare Airways, Air Travel, |
| East European plain, north of right bank Ukraine. | | | | Lvov Airways, Niclolayev Airways, Crimea |
| Its area is 4,9% of the territory of Ukraine. The | | | | Airways, Aerostar, Donbas Airways, Aerosvit, |
| Zhitomir oblast's area is one of the largest in | | | | Ukrainian Cargo Airways, Ukrcopter Airways. |
| Ukraine, fifth among all oblasts. The oblast borders | | | | The list of Ukraine Airports: Berdyansk Airport, |
| on the Republic of Belarus in the north, | | | | Borispol International Airport (Kiev), Vinnitsa |
| Khmelnitsky and Rivne oblasts in the west, | | | | Airport, Dnepropetrovsk Airport, Donetsk Airport, |
| Vinnitsa oblast in the south and Kyiv oblast in the | | | | Zaporozhzhye Airport, Ivano-Frankovsk Airport, |
| east. In its current borders, the oblast was | | | | Izmail Airport, Kerch Airport, Zulyany Airport |
| created in 1937. Now the oblast comprises 23 | | | | (Kiev), Kirovograd Airport, Kramatorsk Airport, |
| administrative districts, 9 cities and towns. 56% of | | | | Kryvyy Rih Airport, Lugansk Airport, Lvov |
| the oblast's population is urban. 85% of the | | | | Airport, Mariupol Airport, Nikolayev International |
| population is Ukrainians. | | | | Airport, Odessa International Airport, Poltava |
| The region's potential of minerals and raw | | | | Airport, Rovno Airport, Severdonoetsk Airport, |
| materials is represented by 278 deposits with 20 | | | | Simferopol International Airport, Sumy Airport, |
| kinds of minerals. The mining industry here is | | | | Ternopol Airport, Uzgorod Airport, Kharkov |
| extracting titanium ores, Dinas quarzites, and | | | | Airport, Kherson Airport, Cherkassy Airport, |
| building and facing stones. | | | | Chernovtsy Airport, Chernigov Airport |
| The region embodies one fifth of the country's | | | | The list of the main Ukraine bus and railway |
| reserve of rubble and crushed stone processed | | | | directions: Lugansk, Donetsk, Sumy, Nikolayev, |
| by a number of powerful companies. Decorative | | | | Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Kerch, Zaporozhe, |
| and facing stones - labradorite, granite, and | | | | Kherson, Kirovograd, Cherkassy, Kiev, Chernigov, |
| gabbro - are found in unlimited quantities. | | | | Odessa, Vinnitsa, Zhitomir, Chernovtsy, |
| Development of the deposit of easily polished | | | | Khmelnitsky, Rovno, Ivano - Frankovsk, Ternopol, |
| marble with a marvelous pattern and extraction | | | | Lutsk, Lvov, Uzhgorod, Melitopol. Crimea: |
| of semiprecious stones - beryl, topaz, quartz - are | | | | Simferopol, Sevastopol, Sudak, Evpatoria, |
| under way. Piezoelectric quartz crystal, a widely | | | | Feodosia, Yalta, Bakhchisarai, Alupka, Alushta, |
| used component of any electronic device, is also | | | | Jankoi, Kharkov. |