Romny

Romny

Infobox City
subdivision_type = Country
settlement_type =
official_name = Romny
native_name = Ромни, Ро́мны
subdivision_name = Ukraine
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subdivision_type1 = Oblast
region_type_local = Raion
subdivision_name1 = Sumy
population_total = 49200
population_as_of = January 1, 2004
area_total_km2 = 65
established_date = 1781
established_title = City rights
elevation_m = 171
latd = 50| latm = 45
latNS = N
longd = 33
longm = 28
longEW = E
website = http://forum.romny.info/

Romny ( _uk. Ромни; _ru. Ро́мны) is a city in the northern Ukrainian Oblast of Sumy. It is located on the Romen River and is the administrative center of the Romny Raion. The villages of Lutschky (438 inhabitants), Kolisnykove (43 inhabitants) and Hrabyne belong to the Romny city administration.

History

Romny was first mentioned in documents in 1096. 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.

ights

Probably the most attractive building in Romny is the cathedral of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1735 in place of a wooden church. The four-pillared cathedral is designed in the Ukrainian Baroque style and is surmounted by three pear-shaped domes, each placed on a lofty 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.

Famous people from Romny

* Pinhas Rutenberg, prominent engineer, businessman, a Russian socialist and a Zionist leader.
* Joachim Stutschewsky, Ukraine-born Austrian and Israeli cellist, composer, and musicologist
* Abram Ioffe, a prominent Soviet/Russian physicist

External links

* [http://www.romen.org.ua Site Romen; ]
* [http://romny.info Unofficial city information site; ]


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