Category:Ромни, Україна

Ромни, Україна, 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, Kolisnykove and Hrabyne belong to the Romny Municipality.

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 Romny the first statue of Taras Shevchenko was erected on 27 October 1918 when the city was located in the Ukrainian state, but it was preserved as part of the Soviet Union Ukrainization-policy's. The concrete statue in Romny began to decay in the 1950s, but was remade in bronze and re-unveiled in 1982. The original version of the monument is located on Kiev's Andriyivskyy Descent.

During World War II, Romny was occupied by the German Army from September 10, 1941 to September 16, 1943.

Hiking

At this page you would find hikes in this place.

External link

• Ромни, Україна at Wikipedia (english)