Sumy Oblast


Sumy Oblast is an oblast in the northeastern part of Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Sumy. Population:
Other important cities within the oblast include Konotop, Okhtyrka, Romny, and Shostka.

Geography

The Sumy Oblast is situated in the northeastern part of Ukraine. It is situated on a border of two historical regions of Ukraine — Cossack Hetmanate and Sloboda Ukraine. Elevation is 110–240m above sea level.
The area of the oblast, comprises about 3.95% of the total area of the country.
The oblast borders Bryansk Oblast on the northeast, Belgorod Oblast and Kursk Oblast on the east, Poltava Oblast on the southwest, Kharkiv Oblast on the south, and the Chernihiv Oblast on the west.
Seven main rivers flow through the oblast, with the Desna River the largest.

History

The region was created on the ukase of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union on 10 January 1939 as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The newly created Sumy Oblast included 12 former raions of Kharkiv Oblast, 17 former raions of Chernihiv Oblast, and 2 former raions of Poltava Oblast.
During the World War II in 1941–43, it was occupied by the Nazi Germany under administration of the German Wehrmacht. After the German forces were driven out the Soviet Union regained control of the region under jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1965 one of former Chernihiv Oblast raions was returned to Chernihiv Oblast.

Points of interest

The following historic-cultural sited were nominated for the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.
It comprises 18 raions, 15 cities, 7 city municipalities, 20 urban-type settlements, 384 village councils, and 1500 villages.
The following data incorporates the number of each type of administrative divisions of the Sumy Oblast:
The local administration of the oblast is controlled by the Sumy Oblast council. The governor of the oblast is appointed by the President of Ukraine.
NameUkrainian nameArea
Population
census 2015		Admin.centerUrban Population Only
SumyСуми 145270,870Sumy 267,944
HlukhivГлухів 8434,039Hlukhiv 33,828
KonotopКонотоп 10392,069Konotop 87,916
LebedynЛебедин 1026,274Lebedyn 25,637
OkhtyrkaОхтирка 3048,850Okhtyrka 48,657
RomnyРомни 6541,224Romny 40,800
ShostkaШостка 3677,232Shostka 77,232
Bilopilskyi RaionБілопільський район1,50050,713Bilopillia30,284
Burynskyi RaionБуринський район1,10025,129Buryn8,836
Hlukhivskyi RaionГлухівський район1,70023,223Hlukhiv N/A *
Konotopskyi RaionКонотопський район1,70029,145Konotop N/A *
Krasnopilskyi RaionКраснопільський район1,35028,670Krasnopillia10,339
Krolevetskyi RaionКролевецький район1,30038,496Krolevets23,339
Lebedynskyi RaionЛебединський район1,70019,864Lebedyn N/A *
Lypovodolynskyi RaionЛиповодолинський район90018,851Lypova Dolyna5,191
Nedryhailivskyi RaionНедригайлівський район1,02524,614Nedryhailiv8,680
Okhtyrskyi RaionОхтирський район1,28426,566Okhtyrka N/A*
Putyvlskyi RaionПутивльський район1,10027,913Putyvl15,888
Romenskyi RaionРоменський район1,90033,297Romny N/A*
Seredyno-Buds'kyi RaionСередино-Будський район1,10016,503Seredyna-Buda9,040
Sums'kyi RaionСумський район1,80062,452Sumy N/A*
Trostianetskyi RaionТростянецький район1,06535,246Trostianets20,772
Shostkynskyi RaionШосткинський район1,21120,684Shostka N/A*
Velyko-Pysarivskyi RaionВеликописарівський район83019,210Velyka Pysarivka7,331
Yampilskyi RaionЯмпільський район94423,917Yampil16,109

Note: Asterisks Though the administrative center of the rayon is housed in the city/town that it is named after, cities do not answer to the rayon authorities only towns do; instead they are directly subordinated to the oblast government and therefore are not counted as part of rayon statistics.

Age structure

Median age

Environment

The Sumy Oblast contains 168 objects and territories of natural reserve. The oblast is rich in picturesque banks of numerous rivers, and sources of mineral waters.
Major environmental problems are: soil erosion, pesticide pollution, air and water pollution. The city has a problem of garbage utilization.
The only place for pesticide utilization in Ukraine is Shostka, Sumy region.

Economy

Industry

The main industrial activities of the oblast are: chemical mechanical engineering, pumping and energy mechanical engineering, agricultural machine-construction, instrument-making industry and radio electronics, technical equipment production for processing fields of agro-industrial complexes, mining and iron ore production industry, polygraph industry and medicine production, oil and gas processing, chemical production, film and photo material production , and chemical fertilizer production. In general, there are 273 large industry enterprises and 327 small industry enterprises.

Agriculture

In 1999, the gross grain yield was about 446,000 tons, sugar beets – 664,000 tons, sunflower seeds – 27,700 tons, potatoes – 343,600 tons. The region also produced 108,700 tons of meat, 517,800 tons of milk and 295,300,000 eggs. At the beginning of 1999, there were 781 registered farms in the oblast.

Notable people from Sumy Oblast

Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially referred to as "oblast centers". The name of each oblast is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city: Sumy is the center of the Sums’ka oblast. Most oblasts are also sometimes referred to in a feminine noun form, following the convention of traditional regional place names, ending with the suffix "-shchyna", as is the case with the Sumy Oblast, Sumshchyna.