Romny

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Romny (disambiguation) .

Romny
Ромни
	Romny
Basic data
Oblast :	Sumy Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	171 m
Area :	29 km²
Residents :	40,681 (2016)
Population density :	1,403 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	42000
Area code :	+380 5448
Geographic location :	50 ° 45 ′  N , 33 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 40 ″  N , 33 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
KOATUU :	5924100000
Administrative structure :	1 city, 2 villages, 1 settlement
Mayor :	Viktor Perewarucha
Address:	бул. Свободи, буд. 1 42000 м. Ромни
Website :	City Council website
Statistical information
Romny

Romny ( Ukrainian Ромни ; Russian Ромны ) is a city in Sumy Oblast in northeast Ukraine . Romny is the center of the Rajons of the same name and has 40,000 inhabitants (2016).

geography

The city is located 105 km west of the Sumy Oblast center on the bank of the Sula River , a tributary of the Dnieper into which the Romen River flows. The city also includes the settlement Lutschky (Ukrainian Лучки , 438 inhabitants) and the villages Kolisnykowe (Ukrainian Колісникове , 43 inhabitants) and Hrabyne (Ukrainian Грабине ).

history

Romny was first mentioned in 1096 . In 1638 6,000 inhabitants lived in the city, making it the largest settlement in the wide area. In 1781 she was granted city rights by the Russian Tsarina Catherine the Great . After the population had increased from 52,529 to 57,051 between 1979 and 1989, it has fallen by more than 10% since then.

Economy and Transport

Romny is located on the regional road P-01 ( Kiev - Pryluky - Romny - Sumy - Kursk ) and on the railway line Homel - Bachmatsch - Romodan - Kremenchuk .

Population development

1897	1923	1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2010	2016
22,510	24.205	25.174	25,962	40,027	48.040	52,529	57.051	50,448	44,429	40,681

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sons and daughters of the town

• Chaim Arlosoroff (1899–1933), Zionist politician
• Borys Antonenko-Dawydowytsch (1899–1984), Ukrainian writer, translator and linguist
• Abram Joffe (1880–1960), physicist
• Dawid Kritschewski (1894–1942), Ukrainian-Russian architect
• Tetjana Markus (1921–1943), Ukrainian resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Petro Redkin (1808–1891), Ukrainian-Russian lawyer, historian of philosophy, professor and university rector
• Isaak Schwarz (1923–2009), composer (including film music)
• Grigory Sokolnikow (1888–1939), Soviet politician

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  Church of the Ascension in Romny

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  Previous seminar

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  All Saints Church in Romny

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  Historic hospital

Web links

Commons : Romny  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Romny . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 9 : Poźajście – Ruksze . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1888, p. 736 (Polish, edu.pl ).
• A page about Romny (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Population figures on pop-stat.mashke.org