Region
Covered with forests and swamps, Polissia is a relatively sparsely populated historical region bordering Belarus and Poland in the north of Ukraine. Due to natural conditions and low-level urbanisation, traditional culture and folk crafts have been perfectly preserved in this area. For example, bortnytstvo (wild-honey farming) is still practiced here. In the place of free lands and abandoned hamlets, eco-farms appear in Polissia. The thirty-kilometre-long Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, where one of the biggest environmental disasters in the history of humanity occurred more than 30 years ago, is located in the region.
