Kostopil

Polesie town of Kostopol on the river. Zamchisko is located 35 km northeast of Rivne. Known since the 17th century. as the village of Ostaltsy, the property of the princes Zaslavsky. In 1783, Count L. Worzel received from King Stanislav August the right to found a city in the village of Ostaltsy, which the count named Kostopol in honor of his daughter Constance. The settlers who arrived from Warsaw were engaged in the development of industrial production and trade (among them were the ancestors of the Russian politician V. Zhirinovsky). Revitalization of life in Goroka in the 19th century. connected with the laying of the Rovno-Sarny-Luninets railway through Kostopol. From the time of the domination of the Russian Empire, the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky (1893), an example of Volyn mo ...

Polesie town of Kostopol on the river. Zamchisko is located 35 km northeast of Rivne. Known since the 17th century. as the village of Ostaltsy, the property of the princes Zaslavsky. In 1783, Count L. Worzel received from King Stanislav August the right to found a city in the village of Ostaltsy, which the count named Kostopol in honor of his daughter Constance. The settlers who arrived from Warsaw were engaged in the development of industrial production and trade (among them were the ancestors of the Russian politician V. Zhirinovsky). Revitalization of life in Goroka in the 19th century. connected with the laying of the Rovno-Sarny-Luninets railway through Kostopol. From the time of the domination of the Russian Empire, the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky (1893), an example of Volyn monumental architecture, has been preserved. In 1995 a monument to T. Shevchenko was erected.