Romny

Coordinates: 50°45′N 33°28′E / 50.750°N 33.467°E / 50.750; 33.467

Romny Ромни, Ромны
Former bank building in Romny
Flag Seal
Coordinates: 50°45′N 33°28′E / 50.750°N 33.467°E / 50.750; 33.467
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Sumy
City rights	1781
Area
• Total	65 km2 (25 sq mi)
Elevation	171 m (561 ft)
Population (2015)
• Total	40, 681
Website	http://forum.romny.info/

Soviet coat of arms

2001-2015 flag

Romny (Ukrainian: Ромни́; Russian: Ромны́) is a city in northern Ukrainian Sumy Oblast. It is located on the Romen River. Romny serves as the administrative center of Romny Raion. It is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. The villages of Lutschky (438 inhabitants), Kolisnykove (43 inhabitants) and Hrabyne belong to the Romny Municipality. Population: 40,681 (2015 est.)^[1]

History

The city was founded in 902 AD. On September 16, 2002 the city celebrated its 1,100th anniversary. Romny was first mentioned in documents in 1096 (as Romen; the name, originally that of the river, is of Baltic origin, cf. Lithuanian romus 'quiet'^[2]). By 1638, the city had a population of 6,000 inhabitants, which made it by far the largest settlement in the area. In 1781, the city was granted a charter by the Tsarina Catherine II. In the period between 1979 and 1989, the population rose from 53,016 to 57,502 inhabitants. During World War II, Romny was occupied by the German Army from September 10, 1941 to September 16, 1943.

Sights

The cathedral of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1735 in place of a wooden church, is a four-pillared cathedral designed in the Ukrainian Baroque style and is surmounted by three pear-shaped domes, each placed on a tall cylinder. Although the cathedral dates back to the 1740s, the building of the nearby belfry and winter church was not undertaken until 1780.

Another noteworthy building is the church of the Ascension, which also has three domes, but was constructed later, in 1795-1801, and adjoins a Baroque belfry built in 1753-63.

Gallery

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  Downtown Romny
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  Ascension Church in Romny
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  Conference building
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  Former seminary
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  Roman Catholic church in Romny
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  Former trading house
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  Historical school building
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  Market Square in Romny
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  Taras Shevchenko monument
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  Steam mill in Romny
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  District hospital building
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  High school building
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  Church of All Saints in Romny
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  Historic hospital building
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  Bus station in Romny

Famous people from Romny

• Yevhen Adamtsevych
• Haim Arlosoroff, a notable Zionist leader
• Maksym Biletskyi
• Larisa Netšeporuk
• Pinhas Rutenberg, prominent engineer, businessman, a Russian socialist and a Zionist leader
• Isaac Schwartz, Soviet composer
• Grigory Sokolnikov, Soviet politician
• Joachim Stutschewsky, Ukraine-born Austrian and Israeli cellist, composer, and musicologist
• Abram Ioffe, a prominent Soviet/Russian physicist
• Several of the founding members of Degania, the first kibbutz settlement in Palestine (1910)

References

External links

• Unofficial information Site Romny;
• Site Romen;