Talk:Zhytomyr

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 * If you can read Russian, Ukrainian or German, please add more information to the English language version from those versions.

Anyone know anything about the 19th-century rabbinical school in Zhytomyr? Apparently it was government-subsidized; Abraham Goldfaden attended it. - Jmabel | Talk 06:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Found something, added it. - Jmabel | Talk 00:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Purge of Poles around Zhytomyr in 1937.--Revery (talk) 18:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Sergei Korolev
During my stay in Zhytomyr I recall visiting some kind of a museum of Soviet space project, in rememberence of Sergei Korolev. I think that some info about it could be valuable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.45.198 (talk) 20:57, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I second that, Korolev was born in Zhitomir. DonPMitchell (talk) 02:56, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Holohoax
I am jewish 100%, all my family is from Korosten, starting from both mother, father, and all of their ancestors, as far back as I can trace, all Jews from Zhytomir area. Now, I have never heard of a single person in my family dying n the so-called holocost - just relatives who died in the war. As a matter of fact, we didn't know the word holocost before arriving to North America in late 1980's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.20.242.81 (talk) 05:08, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Probably, either your family was lucky to find itself in some unique circumstances, or you write something wrong. This page is to discuss content of the article. Do you propose to change something? Information must be justified by reliable sources. --D.M. from Ukraine (talk) 19:34, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, or it simply didn't happen as alleged. The article states "1000s were brutally (POV) murdered". Can you show us the mass graves, please? What evidence exists? Or is the source perhaps Soviet-Style agitprop? 105.4.5.253 (talk) 17:23, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

John Lankenau
I have started to correspond with a very special lady who lives in Zhytomir (V.M) so I am translating the Russian sections into English so I can learn about her city. — Preceding unsigned comment added by John.lankenau (talk • contribs) 06:57, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Zhitomir vs. Zhytomyr
Just out of curiosity, why is the name transliterated into "Zhyutomyr"? That's not at all a standard way to convert the Russian (or Ukranian) spelling into the latin alphabet. Shouldn't it be "Zhitomir"? That's what I've read in history books, and it even appears to be a more popular spelling according to Google search. DonPMitchell (talk) 02:59, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * The spelling "Zhitomir" is based on the Russian name of this city, but according to its Ukrainian name it should be spelled "Zhytomyr". Graphically the both Russian and Ukrainian names look identically: "Житомир". But a letter "и" in Ukrainian sounds as "ы" in Russian and should be transliterated as "y" (while Russian "и" sounds as Ukrainian "і", and their transliteration is "i"). --D.M. from Ukraine (talk) 23:22, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

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Unclear reference
What does it mean in the references (now it is [3]): "Lower, 2005, introduction."? --D.M. from Ukraine (talk) 21:47, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

UPA fighting Nazis?
UPA was aligned with the nazis in a bid to gain independence and fought with nazis against the soviets. See Stefan Banderas. 2601:42:C102:A2B0:9164:790D:77EB:766B (talk) 08:04, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Name in six languages ?
Do we really need the name of the city in six (sic) different languages, some of them with an additional romanization? MOS:FIRST: Be wary of cluttering the first sentence with a long parenthesis containing alternative spellings, pronunciations, etc., which can make the sentence difficult to actually read; this information should be placed elsewhere. The German minority is mentioned once in the article, does this really merit a German name in the first sentence ? Cf. e.g. New York City: There is large Spanish-speaking community, but giving the Spanish name (es:Nueva York) would seem like a strange idea, at least to me. Rsk6400 (talk) 18:14, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * No, maybe not, I don't know, but what I was seeing was an editor who did not sufficiently explain their edits and seemed to editing from a specific POV. I am not the enemy here, : I have blocked editors who insisted on reinserting Russian spellings in similar articles for obvious POV reasons--I know it is a thing among Russophiles. What the user needs to do is explain properly, so that they won't be reverted. Drmies (talk) 22:11, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I don't care if you revert me, as long as you provide a decent edit summary. Drmies (talk) 22:12, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 January 2024: Ukrainian and Polish audio pronunciation
I would add it for the other languages too, but these are the only pronunciation files that exist on Commons. Change the beginning of the lede from:



to



This will display as:


 * Zhytomyr

70.181.1.68 (talk) 16:39, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 16:42, 24 January 2024 (UTC)