Zhytomyr Oblast

Zhytomyr Oblast (, translit. Zhytomyrs’ka oblast’; also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna - ) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Zhytomyr. Population:

The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on September 22, 1937 out of territories of Vinnytsia and Kiev oblasts as well as two border okrugs of Kiev Oblast – Korosten Okrug and Novohrad-Volynsky Okrug.