Sumy

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Sumy (Ukrainian: Суми, Russian: ) is a city on the Psel River in the Ukraine, and the capital of the Sumy Oblast. Sumy is a twin town of Celle, Germany since January 17, 1990. As of 2004, the city's population is 283,700.

Contents

1 History
2 Demographics

2.1 Population by year
2.2 Nationality Census

3 Famous people from Sumy
4 External links

History

Sumy was founded in 1652 at the river Psel (a left tributary of the Dnieper) as fortress. At the time, Sumy was always in the threat of attack from Crimean Tatars. Starting from the end of the 18th Century, the city an important economical center. During the German occupation of Ukraine during World War II (1941 - 1943), Sumy was heavily damaged. However a church was spared destruction. After the end of WWII the destroyed parts of the city were rebuilt anew.

Demographics

Population by year

Sumy's population: 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

Nationality Census

1897 - 70,53% Ukrainians, 24,1% Russians 2,6% Jews
1926 - 80,7% Ukrainians, 11,8% Russians 5,5% Jews
1959 - 79% Ukrainians, 20% Russians

Famous people from Sumy

Lev Yefimovitch Kerbel, Soviet sculptor

External links

() [Independent regional Web-portal] - news, features, entertainment & tourism info
[Sumy NGO Network for Internet Education] - the program of the NGO is to train educators in the basics of computer and Internet technology through conducting thematic classes. List of seminars: on-line educational presentations, distance education. Conferences: the informational environment of an educational establishment, on-line means of education in schools. Informational projects on European Union

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	Subdivisions of Sumy Oblast, Ukraine

	Raions:	Bilopilskyy Raion \| Burynskyy Raion \| Belykopysarivskyy Raion \| Hlukhiv City \| Hlykhivskyy Raion \| Konotop City \| Konotopskyy Raion \| Krasnopilskyy Raion \| Korolevskyy Raion \| Lebedyn City \| Lebedynskyy Raion \| Lypovodolynskyy Raion \| Nedryhaylivskyy Raion \| Okhtyrka City \| Okhtyrskyy Raion \| Putyvlskyy Raion \| Romenskyy Raion \| Romny City \| Seredyno-Budskyy Raion \| Sumskyy Raion \| Sumy City \| Trostyanetskyy Raion \| Shostka City \| Shostkynskyy Raion \| Yampilskyy Raion
	Cities:	Hlukhiv \| Konotop \| Lebedyn \| Okhtyrka \| Romny \| Shostka \| Sumy
	Towns:	Bilopillya \| Buryn \| Druzhba \| Krolevets \| Putyvl \| Seredyna-Buda \| Trostyanets \| Vorozhba

	Ukraine
	Subdivisions of Ukraine: Cherkasy Oblast \| Chernihiv Oblast \| Chernivtsi Oblast \| Autonomous Republic of Crimea \| Dnipropetrovsk Oblast \| Donetsk Oblast \| Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast \| Kharkiv Oblast \| Kherson Oblast \| Khmelnytskyi Oblast \| Kiev City \| Kiev Oblast \| Kirovohrad Oblast \| Luhansk Oblast \| Lviv Oblast \| Mykolaiv Oblast \| Odessa Oblast \| Poltava Oblast \| Rivne Oblast \| Sevastopol City \| Sumy Oblast \| Ternopil Oblast \| Vinnytsia Oblast \| Volyn Oblast \| Zakarpattia Oblast \| Zaporizhia Oblast \| Zhytomyr Oblast
	Administrative centers of subdivision units: Cherkasy \| Chernihiv \| Chernivtsi \| Dnipropetrovsk \| Donetsk \| Ivano-Frankivsk \| Kharkiv \| Kherson \| Khmelnytskyi \| Kiev \| Kirovohrad \| Luhansk \| Lutsk \| Lviv \| Mykolaiv \| Odessa \| Poltava \| Rivne \| Sevastopol \| Simferopol \| Sumy \| Ternopil \| Uzhhorod \| Vinnytsia \| Zaporizhia \| Zhytomyr