Worozhba (Lebedyn)

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Worozhba (Lebedyn)
Ворожба
Coat of arms is missing
Vorozhba (Lebedyn) (Ukraine)
Worozhba (Lebedyn)
Worozhba (Lebedyn)
Basic data
Oblast : Sumy Oblast
Rajon : Lebedyn district
Height : 137 m
Area : Information is missing
Residents : 1,638 (2004)
Postcodes : 42241
Area code : +380 5445
Geographic location : 50 ° 43 '  N , 34 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '51 "  N , 34 ° 38' 2"  E
KOATUU : 5922982401
Administrative structure : 13 villages
Address: вул. Лебединська
42240 с. Ворожба
Statistical information
Worozhba (Lebedyn) (Sumy Oblast)
Worozhba (Lebedyn)
Worozhba (Lebedyn)
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Woroschba ( Ukrainian and Russian Ворожба ; Polish Worożba ) is a village in the west of the Ukrainian Sumy Oblast with about 1,600 inhabitants (2004).

The village, first mentioned in writing in 1654, is located in the northeast of Lebedyn Rajon on the banks of the 22 km long Voroschba at its confluence with the Psel . Territorial road T-19-09 runs through the village in a north-south direction . Lebedyn Rajon center is 23 km southwest and Sumy Oblast center 28 km northeast of the village.

Woroschba is the center of the district council of the same name with about 2400 inhabitants, to which the villages are added

belong.

Personalities

In the village came on December 31, 1872 July. / January 12,  1873 greg. the Ukrainian painter and architect Wassyl Krytschewskyj (1873–1952).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The village's website on the Verkhovna Rada website , accessed on January 15, 2015 (Ukrainian)