Located 80 km from Kyiv. Throughout its almost three-thousand-year history, this settlement has always been within the bounds of a fortified settlement of Scythian times of the 6th-5th centuries BC. Today this area is a national archaeological monument. It was in that ancient time that our ancestors fenced off 40 hectares of land from warlike nomads with a high earthen rampart, and dug a deep moat alongside it, through which the Kyrsha River flowed all the time, falling into the Irpin. On the earthen rampart stood a pointed palisade of logs, and the fortress bridges thrown across the deep, full-flowing moat were removed when uninvited guests approached. Experts claim that this fortification in the forest wilderness could not be taken by storm even by the Tatar-Mongol hordes.
Mykola Kravchenko. A chapel grew up on an old farmstead. – Kyivska Pravda, No. 97 (22443), Friday, 11 September 2009, p. 2.
