[citation needed] Kievan Rus' 879-1097 Principality of Kiev 1097–1240 Golden Horde 1240–1363 Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1363–1569 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1649 Cossack Hetmanate 1649-1667 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1667-1795 Russian Empire 1795–1917 Russian Republic 1917 Various Ukrainian states 1917–1920 Soviet Ukraine 1920–1922 Soviet Union 1922–1991 (Occupied by Nazi Germany between 1941-1943) Ukraine 1991–present The city was founded over a millennium ago and was the capital of the Drevlians, an ancient Slavic tribe (later incorporated into Kievan Rus′).

[4] In 945, Igor of Kiev, ruler of the Kievan Rus, was killed while collecting tribute from the Drevlians in Iskorosten.

"[5] The Primary Chronicle blames Igor’s death on his own excessive greed, indicating that he tried to collect tribute for the second time in a month.

As the Primary Chronicle tells it: “There was not a house that was not consumed, and it was impossible to extinguish the flames because all the houses caught fire at once.”[7] As the people fled the burning city, Olga ordered her soldiers to catch them, killing some of them and giving the others as slaves to her followers.

As a result of this Olga changed the system of tribute gathering (poliudie) in what may be regarded as the first legal reform recorded in Eastern Europe.

In December 1240, the Mongol invasion of Rus', led by Batu Khan, sacked and burned many cities and settlements in the region of Iskorosten.

[citation needed] From 1243, the Mongol-Tatars, in the form of the Golden Horde (the western section of the Mongol Empire), ruled.

[12] In 1586, a powerful Polish magnate, Prokop Mrzewicki, married one of Terekh's heiresses and became the owner of Iskorosten.

He managed to persuade the Polish king to grant this small walled settlement the status of a city.

After a bloody battle, the Cossacks captured Iskorosten from the Polish defenders, and the city's fortifications were completely destroyed during the assault.

In 1654, Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, as a result of the Pereyaslav Rada, signed an agreement with Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich on the transition of Ukraine to Russian jurisdiction.

[citation needed] On 10 June 1917, the Ukrainian Central Council declared its autonomy as part of the Russian Republic by its First Universal at the All-Ukrainian Military Congress.

After the proclamation of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR), its government and parliament were forced to leave Kyiv during its occupation by Bolshevik troops.

On 25 February, the Tryzub or Trident of St. Vladimir was approved as the emblem of the Ukrainian People's Republic by a resolution of the Central Rada.

[citation needed] On 7 November 1921, during the November raid, Korosten, occupied by units of the 395th Rifle Regiment of the 132nd Brigade of the 44th Rifle Division of the Moscow Troops, attempted to capture the Volyn Group commander Yuriy Tyutyunnyk of the UPR Insurgent Army.

[citation needed] Captain Volodymyr Stefanyshyn was killed during the withdrawal, however Ivan Rembolovych, Semen Khmara-Kharchenko and Mykola Tobilevych were decorated for their actions.

[1] In October 1926, with the permission of the authorities and under the supervision of the OGPU, a conference of the rabbis of the Volyn province was held in Korosten, which actually had an all-Ukrainian, and partly all-Union character; which adopted a decree on counteracting atheistic propaganda.

[19] Soviet forces initially held out on the vital railhead to Kyiv with heavy artillery.

[20] Generalfeldmarschall von Reichenau, commander of the 6th Army reported “The railway junction... was defended by Soviet forces with bitter determination, and it fell... only after hard fighting“[19] Soviet forces initially held out on the vital railhead to Kyiv with heavy artillery.

It was during the occupation that nationalists, Liked to OUN-Bandera faction of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and working under the auspices of German Security Police and the Einsatzgruppen[22] compiled lists of targets for the branch offices of the KdS and assisted with the roundups of Jewish families and other ‘Non-desirables’.

On 27 August, 238 Jews were executed, and on 10 September 1941, about a thousand Jewish men, women and children were killed.

Korosten became an administrative centre of the gebiet, a part of the larger Zhitomir general district, Reichskommissariat Ukraine.

In addition, the city's economy suffered greatly from the crisis in the first years after Ukraine's independence and the move to free-market economics.

In 2014, the Lenin statue, which stood on Main Street (and just off to the right of the city’s government building) which had survived the end of the USSR was toppled.

On 28 February, as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began, an emergency meeting was held by the city from the Department of Civil Protection to the operation of electric sirens [33] On 5 March reports suggest Russians troops were on the outskirts of Malyn (57.3 km from Korosten).

The blue colour of the field of the flag's cloth symbolizes the greatness and beauty of the ancient city.

In the blue field of the heraldic shield above the fortress wall, the name of the city is written in Cyrillic letters, "KOROSTEN".

The city is served by rail links to the national and regional capitals, as well as cross-border connections to neighbouring Belarus.

Some other roads: According to the 2001 census, the ethnic composition of Korosten is as follows: 89% — Ukrainian, 7,5% — Russian, 1,5% — Pole, 0,6% — Belarusian, 0,5% — Jews.

[38] Annually on the third Saturday of September in the city park International potato pancakes (Ukrainian: деруни, translit.