Iskorosten

Korosten, formerly Iskorosten, stands on the Uzh among the granite banks and forests of Polesia. It was a principal stronghold of the Drevlians, remembered in the chronicle for their resistance to Kyiv. In 945 the Drevlians killed Prince Igor while he was collecting tribute; his widow Olga subsequently besieged and burned their stronghold. The settlement survived the destruction and later formed part of the Lithuanian and Polish-Lithuanian lands. In 1589 King Sigismund III granted Iskorosten a town charter. Its position on the Uzh linked the old Drevlian centre to the waterways and wooded countryside of northern Ukraine.