Uzhomyr

Uzhomyr
Ушомир
	Uzhomyr
Basic data
Oblast :	Zhytomyr Oblast
Rajon :	Korosten district
Height :	187 m
Area :	2.979 km²
Residents :	1,323 (2004)
Population density :	444 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	11571
Area code :	+380 4142
Geographic location :	50 ° 52 '  N , 28 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '38 "  N , 28 ° 28' 3"  E
KOATUU :	1822386001
Administrative structure :	9 villages
Mayor :	Lyudmyla Rafajiliwna Mala
Address:	вул. Березюка 17 11571 с. Ушомир
Statistical information
Uzhomyr

Uschomyr ( Ukrainian Ушомир ; Russian Ушомир Uschomir , Polish Uszomierz ) is a village in the Ukrainian Oblast of Zhytomyr with around 1300 inhabitants (2004).

Ushomyr is located in Korosten district on the bank of the Ush , a right tributary of the Pripyat . The district center of Korosten is 18 km northeast and the Oblast center Zhytomyr 84 km south of the village. There is an animal park in the village.

Church in the village

The village, first mentioned in 1683, is the center of the 9.61 km² district council of the same name with almost 3000 inhabitants, to which the villages:

• Beresnewe ( Березневе ⊙ ) with a population of about 220
• Saritschtschja ( Заріччя ⊙ ) with about 220 inhabitants
• Kovbaschtschyna ( Ковбащина ⊙ ) with about 400 inhabitants
• Puhachivka ( Пугачівка ⊙ ) with about 190 inhabitants
• Rudnja-Uschomyrska ( Рудня-Ушомирська ⊙ ) with about 220 inhabitants
• Sadybne ( Садибне ⊙ ) with about 50 inhabitants
• Santarka ( Сантарка ⊙ ) with about 260 inhabitants
• Strumok ( Струмок ⊙ ) with about 30 inhabitants belong.

Personalities

• Menachem Kipnis (1878–1942), Polish artist and journalist
• Levin Kipnis (1894–1990), Israeli children's author
• Viktor Trochymchuk ( Віктор Васильович Трохимчук ; * 1955), Ukrainian pharmaceutical scientist

Web links

Commons : Uschomyr  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ The village's website on the Verkhovna Rada website , accessed on November 14, 2015