Stolin
Stolin is an old city, that grew up at the heart of
Palyessye on the river Horyn (Goryn), at the intersection of three roads, one leading northwards to Pinsk, two others eastwards to Davyd-Gorodok and
Turaw, that are now in
Belarus, southwards to Sarny and
Kiev, that are now in the
Ukraine.
Nowadays Stolin is the capital of the largest district in
Brest voblast. Population of Stolin is 12.5 thousand people (2002). The Belarusian-Ukrainian border is about 15 km away, actually Stolin is now a border city that hosts a lot of Ukrainians on the market days.
Russian speech is common here, but villagers prefer their dialects that are numerous and akin partly to the
Belarusian language, partly the
Ukrainian language.