Title: Chudniv city Status: Administrative center of the Chudniv territorial community of the Zhytomyr district of the Zhytomyr region. Location: Located 54 km. in the south-west of Zhytomyr. Population: 5800 thousand people Area: 10 square meters. km. Waterways: River Teteriv Founded: 1416 Historical note: The first documented mention of Chudniv refers to 1416, which mentions that the inhabitants from the land yield Chudniv Dedkovichiny three buckets of honey in Kyiv St. Sophia Cathedral. At that time Chudniv a castle and the city, which met yearly fair on the feast of St. Peter. In 1507 the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund I gave all Chudniv parish in hereditary possession of the Lithuanian Grand Duke hetman Konstantin Ostrozhskyi. Later Chudniv often changed owners. In 1792 Chudniv became a district town established when Iziaslav province, and in 1795 the county was attached to the Volyn province, and in 1800 abolished. Now in Chudniv have a small food processing, furniture factory, a peat company. Sightseeing: Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Peter and Paul Church.