Esman ( uk, Есмань; russian: Эсмань) is an
urban-type settlement in
Shostka Raion
Shostka Raion ( uk, Шосткинський район) is a raion in Sumy Oblast in Central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Shostka. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukrain ...
,
Sumy Oblast
Sumy Oblast ( uk, Сумська́ о́бласть, translit=Sumska oblast; also referred to as Sumshchyna – uk, Су́мщина) is an oblast (province) in the northeastern part of Ukraine. Population: The oblast was created in its most r ...
,
Ukraine. It is located on the left bank of the
Esman river
Esman ( uk, Есмань, russian: Эсмань) is an urban-type settlement in Shostka Raion of Sumy Oblast in Ukraine. It is located on the left bank of the Esman river, a right tributary of the Kleven, in the drainage basin of the Dnieper. Esm ...
, a right tributary of the
Kleven, in the drainage basin of the Dnieper. Esman hosts the administration of
Esman settlement hromada, one of the
hromada
A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...
s of Ukraine.
Population:
The settlement was called Chervone () until 2016. On 19 May 2016,
Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Chervone to Esman according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.
Until 18 July 2020, Esman belonged to
Hlukhiv Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Sumy Oblast to five. The area of Hlukhiv Raion was merged into Shostka Raion.
Economy
Transportation
The settlement has access to
Highway M02 which connects it with
Kyiv and
Chernihiv, and to the north, across the Russian border, with
Oryol
Oryol ( rus, Орёл, p=ɐˈrʲɵl, lit. ''eagle''), also transliterated as Orel or Oriol, is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast situated on the Oka River, approximately south-southwest of Moscow. It is part of the Central Fed ...
and
Moscow.
Esman railway station
Esman ( uk, Есмань, russian: Эсмань) is an urban-type settlement in Shostka Raion of Sumy Oblast in Ukraine. It is located on the left bank of the Esman (river), Esman river, a right tributary of the Kleven (river), Kleven, in the drai ...
is located approximately north of the settlement. It is a terminal station of a line from
Khutir-Mykhailivskii, and there is no passenger traffic. Until the 1990s, it was a through station on a railroad connecting
Orsha
Orsha ( be, О́рша, Во́рша, Orša, Vorša; russian: О́рша ; lt, Orša, pl, Orsza) is a city in Belarus in the Vitebsk Region, on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers.
History
Orsha was first mentioned in 1067 as Rsha ...
and
Donetsk, but then the line south of Esman was demolished, since a short section of it was crossing Russia. The closest railway station with passenger traffic is Khutir-Mykhailivskii.
References
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Urban-type settlements in Shostka Raion