Sister cities of Korosten

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 center 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 the Drevlyans, an ancient Slavic tribe that was later incorporated into Kievan Rus′. The name may be derived from the word korost 'brushwood, bushes, shrubbery'; the form Iskorosten' sometimes found in early sources is probably based on the common repetition of prepositions in Old Russian: iz grada iz... 'from the city from...'.

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.