Romny ( uk, Ромни́, ) is a city in northern

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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 ...

. It is located on the Romen River. Romny serves as the administrative centre of

Romny Raion Romny Raion ( uk, Роменський район) is a raion in Sumy Oblast in Central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Romny. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the numb ...

. It is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. The villages of Lutschky (438 inhabitants), Kolisnykove (43 inhabitants) and Hrabyne belong to the

Romny Municipality Romny ( uk, Ромни́, ) is a city in northern Ukrainian Sumy Oblast. It is located on the Romen River. Romny serves as the administrative centre of Romny Raion. It is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and doe ...

. Population:

History

The city was founded in AD 902. On September 16, 2002 the city celebrated its 1,100th anniversary. Romny was first mentioned in documents in 1096 (as Romen, ; the name, originally that of the river, is of Baltic origin, cf. Lithuanian ''romus'' 'quiet'). At various times, it passed under

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, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian rule. By 1638, the city had a population of 6,000 inhabitants, which made it by far the largest settlement in the area. In 1781, the city was granted a charter by the Tsarina

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. In Romny the first statue of Taras Shevchenko was erected on 27 October 1918 when the city was located in the newly established Ukrainian state, but it was preserved as part of the

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Ukrainization-policy's.100 years ago the first monument to Taras Shevchenko was built for the Hetmanate
Radio Svoboda (14 October 2018) The concrete statue in Romny began to decay in the 1950s, but was remade in

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and re-unveiled in 1982. The original version of the monument is located on

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's Andriyivskyy Descent. During

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, Romny was occupied by the German Army from September 10, 1941 to September 16, 1943. The Germans operated a Nazi prison in the city. In the period between 1979 and 1989, Romny's population rose from 53,016 to 57,502 inhabitants. In 2022, a series of military engagements occurred near Romny during the

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Climate

Sights

The cathedral of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1735 in place of a wooden church, is a four-pillared cathedral designed in the Ukrainian Baroque style and is surmounted by three pear-shaped domes, each placed on a tall cylinder. Although the cathedral dates back to the 1740s, the building of the nearby belfry and winter church was not undertaken until 1780. Another noteworthy building is the church of the Ascension, which also has three domes, but was constructed later, in 1795–1801, and adjoins a Baroque belfry built in 1753–63.

Local government

Beside the city itself, the city municipality also serves as government for a village Kolisnykove and a settlement Luchky. The city also has administration of the surrounding

Gallery

File:Romny - panoramio.jpg, Downtown Romny File:Romny Voznesens'ka Tserkva 04 Soborna (Lenina) (YDS 6646).JPG, Ascension Church in Romny File:Romny Budynok Konferentsiy 02 bul.Shevchenka 7 (YDS 4630).JPG, Conference building File:Romny Duhovne Uchylysche 01 Schuchky 8 (YDS 6628).JPG, Former seminary File:Romny Kostel 01 Gor'kogo 246 (YDS 6708).JPG, Roman Catholic church in Romny File:Romny Kupets'kiy Torgivel'niy Budynok 01 Svobody (Zhovt.Revolut.) b-r 28 (YDS 6683).JPG, Former trading house File:Romny Mis'ke Uchylysche 01 Soborna (Lenina) 43 (YDS 4555).JPG, Historical school building File:Romny Mistse Provedennya Illins'kogo Yarmarku 01 Bazarna Ploscha (YDS 4636).JPG, Market Square in Romny File:Romny Pam'yatnyk T.Shevchenku 00 1 bul.Shevchenka (YDS 6674).JPG, Taras Shevchenko monument File:Romny Paroviy Mlyn Rubinchyka 01 Gor'kogo 106 (YDS 6698).JPG, Steam mill in Romny File:Romny Povitoviy Shpytal' Golovniy Korpus 01 Moskovs'kiy b-r 29 (YDS 4720).JPG, District hospital building File:Romny Real'ne Uchylysche 00 1 Soborna (Lenina) 33 (YDS 6634).JPG, High school building File:Romny Vsihsvyats'ka Tserkva 05 Dudina 4 (YDS 6721).JPG, Church of All Saints in Romny File:Romny Zems'ka Likarnya 01 Moskovs'kiy b-r 24 (YDS 6691).JPG, Historic hospital building File:Bus station in Romny.JPG, Bus station in Romny

Notable people

Yevhen Adamtsevych Yevhen Oleksandrovych Adamtsevych (19 December 19041 January 1972) was a prominent blind Ukrainian bandurist. Biography Yevhen Oleksandrovych Adamtsevych was born in the village of Solonytsia on 1 January 1904, not far from the town of Lubny, in ...

(1904-1972), prominent blind Ukrainian bandurist * Haim Arlosoroff (1899–1933), notable Socialist Zionist leader *

Maksym Biletskyi Maksym Andriyovych Biletskyi ( uk, Максим Андрійович Білецький; born 7 January 1980) is a retired Ukrainian football midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may p ...

(born 1980), Ukrainian footballer * Larisa Netšeporuk (born 1970), heptathlete who represented Ukraine and Estonia *

Pinhas Rutenberg Pinhas Rutenberg (russian: Пётр Моисеевич Рутенберг, Pyotr Moiseyevich Rutenberg; he, פנחס רוטנברג: 5 February 1879 – 3 January 1942) was a Russian Jewish engineer, businessman, and political activist. He pla ...

(1879–1942), Russian socialist revolutionary and Zionist leader in Palestine, prominent engineer and businessman * Isaac Schwartz (1923–2009), Soviet composer * Grigory Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant; 1888–1939), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician * Joachim Stutschewsky (1891–1982), Ukraine-born Austrian and Israeli cellist, composer, and musicologist *

Abram Ioffe Abram Fedorovich Ioffe ( rus, Абра́м Фёдорович Ио́ффе, p=ɐˈbram ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈofɛ; – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (p ...

(1880–1960), prominent Russian/Soviet physicist * Several of the founding members (1909-10) of Degania, the first kibbutz settlement in Palestine

References

External links

Unofficial information Site Romny

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