Sumy Oblast
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| Sums'ka Oblast' Сумська область | |
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| Population Total (2004) Density Urban | 1,255,866 53/km² 65.3% |
| Area | 23,800 km² |
| Raions | 18 |
| Cities | 15 |
| City districts | 2 |
| Urban localities | 20 |
| Villages | 1,492 |
Important cities within the oblast include: Sumy, Konotop, Okhtyrka, Romny, and Shostka.
As of 2004-05-01, the population is 1,255,866, which includes 886,100 city/town-dwellers, and 483,700 villagers.
Geography
The Sumy Oblast is situated in the northeastern part of Ukraine. The area of the oblast' (23,800 km²), comprises about 3,95 % of the total area of the country.
The obalst' borders the Bryansk Oblast (Russia) on the northeast, the Kursk Oblast (Russia) on the east, the Poltava on the southwest, the Kharkiv Oblasts on the south, and the Chernihiv Oblast on the west.
Administrative Sudivisions
The Sumy Oblast was established on December 10, 1939. Today it is comprised of 18 raions (districts), 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:
- Administrative Center - 1 (Sumy)
- Raions — 18;
- City raions — 2;
- Settlements — 1526, including:
- * Villages — 1491;
- * Cities/Towns — 35, including:
- ** Urban-type settlement — 20;
- ** Cities — 15, including:
- *** Cities of oblast' subordinance — 7;
- *** Cities of raion subordinance — 8;
- Selsovets — 384.
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.
Economy
Industry
The main industrial activites 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 (See: Svema), 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'.Famous people from Sumy Oblast
- Viktor Yushchenko - 3rd President of Ukraine (2005-Present); Khoruzhivka village
- Sydir Kovpak - a prominent Soviet partisan leader in Ukraine;
See also
External links
- () [Information Card of the Region] - official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
- () [State Administration of Sumy Oblast] - official site
- () [Independent regional Web-portal] - news, features, entertainment & tourism info
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| Subdivisions of Sumy Oblast, Ukraine |
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| 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
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| Cities: | Hlukhiv | Konotop | Lebedyn | Okhtyrka | Romny | Shostka | Sumy
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| Towns: | Bilopillya | Buryn | Druzhba | Krolevets | Putyvl | Seredyna-Buda | Trostyanets | Vorozhba | ||
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