Sumy

Sumy
Суми
	Sumy
Basic data
Oblast :	Sumy Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	166 m
Area :	95.3858 km²
Residents :	269,444 (March 1, 2012)
Population density :	2,825 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	40000-40489
Area code :	+380 542
Geographic location :	50 ° 55 '  N , 34 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '11 "  N , 34 ° 46' 55"  E
KOATUU :	5910100000
Administrative structure :	2 Rajons , 6 villages
Mayor :	Hennadij Minajew
Address:	пл. Незалежності 2 40030 м. Суми
Website :	http://www.sumy.net.ua/
Statistical information
Sumy

Sumy ( Ukrainian Суми ; Russian Сумы ) is a city in Sumy Oblast in northeast Ukraine . The city has 269,444 inhabitants (2012) and is the administrative seat of the Oblast and the surrounding Sumy Rajon (administratively not part of the same).

View of downtown Sumy

geography

Sumy divided into two Stadtrajone Saritschtschja and Kovpak and the six villages Verkhnye Pischane ( Верхнє Піщане ) Schytejske ( Житейське ) Sahirske ( Загірське ) Kyryjakiwschtschyna ( Кирияківщина ) Pischane ( Піщане ) and Trochymenkowe ( Трохименкове ). After exchanging space with the surrounding Sumy Rajon, the area has been around 95 square kilometers since September 2015.

Trinity Cathedral

Chekhov Museum

history

The city was founded as a fortress in 1652 on the Psel River , a left tributary of the Dnieper . Sumy has often been the target of Crimean Tatar raids . From the end of the 18th century the city became an important economic center. In the 19th century, the city was the administrative center of the Ujesd Sumy in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire .

During the German occupation from 1941 to 1943 Sumy was badly affected, but the Church of the Resurrection and the Church of the Transfiguration remained intact. The destroyed parts of the city were rebuilt after the Second World War .

The Soviet POW camp 134 for German POWs of the Second World War was in Sumy .

Population data

• 1850 - 11,500 inhabitants
• 1897 - 27,564 inhabitants
• 1913 - 50,400 inhabitants
• 1926 - 44,000 inhabitants
• 1939 - 69,000 inhabitants
• 1959 - 98,000 inhabitants
• 1970 - 159,000 inhabitants
• 1979 - 231,558 inhabitants
• 1989 - 293,706 inhabitants
• 2001 - 295,847 inhabitants
• 2004 - 288,200 inhabitants

National composition

• 1897 - 70.53% Ukrainians, 24.1% Russians
• 1926 - 80.7% Ukrainians, 11.8% Russians
• 1959 - 79.0% Ukrainians, 20.0% Russians

Economy and Transport

Today products of light industry (shoes) are manufactured in Sumy, there are also heavy industry and apparatus engineering (electron microscopes).

The city is located on the regional road P-01 (Kiev - Pryluky - Romny - Kursk ) and is the end of the regional road P-17 ( Oleksandrija - Kremenchuk - Poltava - Ochtyrka - Sumy). The city is also an important rail hub. Connections exist in the direction of Belgorod, Kharkiv and Konotop / Kiev .

Culture and sights

There is a Chekhov Museum in the Luka district at 79 Chekhov Street. The writer stayed in the house from May 1888 to August 1894 occasionally.

Personalities

• Oleksij Altschewskyj (1835–1901), mining engineer, industrialist, banker and philanthropist
• Mykola Hrunskyj (1872–1951), philologist and university rector
• Yekaterina Peschkowa (1876–1965), Russian human rights activist and Maxim Gorky's first wife
• Pavlo Sajzew (1886–1965), philologist, literary critic, Shevchenko biographer and politician
• Lew Kerbel (1917–2003), Soviet sculptor
• Volodymyr Holubnytschyj (* 1936), sports enthusiast
• Oleksandr Uschkalenko (* 1964), cross-country skier
• Ruslan Lyssenko (* 1976), biathlete
• Oleksandr Bilanenko (* 1978), biathlete
• Artyom Besrodny (1979-2016), football player
• Kateryna Burmistrowa (* 1979), world champion and European champion in wrestling
• Dmytro Kuleba (* 1981), diplomat and minister
• Oleh Husjew (* 1983), football player
• Oleh Bereschnyj (* 1984), biathlete
• Anton Schynder (* 1987), soccer player
• Inna Kaschyna (* 1991), walker
• Waleryj Samodai (* 1991), beach volleyball player
• Julija Schurawok (* 1994), biathlete
• Anastassija Merkuschyna (* 1995), biathlete

Town twinning

Sumy seal as a granite work of art in the twin town of Celle

Sumy lists seven twin cities :

city	country	since
Belgorod	Russia
Celle	Germany	1990
Gorzów Wielkopolski	Poland	2006
Kursk	Russia	2007
Lublin	Poland	2002
Nitra	Slovakia
Ostrava	Czech Republic
Severodvinsk	Russia	2001
Wraza	Bulgaria	1966
Zamość	Poland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова, План від 15.09.2015 № 681-VIII Про зміну і встановлення меж міста Суми і Сумського району Сумсьластібу Сум
2. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
3. ↑ Города-побратимы . Retrieved February 27, 2015.
4. ↑ місто Суми - vacation dates . Retrieved February 27, 2015.
5. ↑ ^{a b} місто Суми - May 19 - Europe Day . Retrieved February 27, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Sumy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sumy . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 11 : Sochaczew – Szlubowska Wola . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1890, p. 588 (Polish, edu.pl ).
• Sumy University
• Independent Sumy portal