Vystupovychi (Ukrainian: Виступовичі) is a rural-type settlement in the

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in central

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. As of 2001, according to the

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conducted, the population was 80 people.

Geography

The settlement is near the border with

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's Homiel Oblast. The Rakusha river originates in the village. The elevation is 130 meters above sea level.

History

Vystupovychi was first mentioned in the act of 1545 as the property of Soltan Stetskovych. There were "eight houses, two services, tributes of which 5 cadets of honey, and four copes of money." During the Russian Empire era, the village was part of the Kovel governorate. In 1923-97 it was the administrative center of Vystupovychi village council of

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. In 1972 Vystupovychi had 447 yards and 1322 inhabitants. In the village, there was a subsidiary farm of the Ovruch forestry enterprise, a turpentine factory, and a timber warehouse. There was a school with 300 students, a club for 400 seats, and a library. There was a paramedic and obstetric station, nurseries, and a post office. As a result of the

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of 1986, the village belongs to the

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of unconditional (mandatory) resettlement. Most of the villagers were resettled, and the school, club, post office, shops, and paramedic station stopped working. On June 28, 1997, the village council was liquidated. Some residents of Vystupovychi were resettled and accommodated in the

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. In 2020, the territory and settlements of Rudnyansky village council of Ovruch raion, according to the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 711-p of June 12, 2020 "On the definition of administrative centers and approval of territories of territorial communities of Zhytomyr oblast", were included in the Ovruch city territorial community of Korosten raion of Zhytomyr oblast. The raion was annexed into the Korosten Raion. According to the head of the

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territorial community, during the

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, Russian troops did not attempt to cross the

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at the Vystupovychi border crossing.

Population

According to the 1989 Ukrainian SSR census, the population of the village was 863, of which 385 were men and 478 were women. According to the

2001 Ukrainian census The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.

Language

Distribution of the population by mother tongue according to the 2001 census:

References

{{Zhytomyr Oblast Villages in Korosten Raion