Mezhyrychi

Yemilchyne stands on the Ubort in the forests of Polesia. Burial mounds nearby recall habitation in the time of Kyivan Rus'. The settlement appears in records of 1585 under the name Mezhyrichka, when it belonged to the Ostrogski princes; in the seventeenth century it was held by the Lubomirski family. The Ubort flows north through the wooded lowlands towards the Pripyat.