Sumskaya oblast

Sumy region , a small border area , located on the north- east of Ukraine. The length of the state border with Russia is 498 km . Founded January 10, 1939 Its area is 23.8 thousand square meters. km . (3.9 % of the Ukraine). A resident in the area of ​​1354.5 thousandpeople ( 2.7% of Ukrainian population ) Population density - 57.6 persons. on the square. km .

The area consists of 18 districts, 15 cities ( including 7 - regional subordination ), 20 townships and 1,500 villages.

The administrative center - the city of Sumy was founded in 1655 now live in the city 297.6 thousand people.

Most of the Sumy region is within the Dnieper-Donets Depression, and its northern part is located within the Voronezh massif. Mineral resources include oil and natural gas ( Akhtyrskaya , Romensk and Lebedinsky areas) , which focuses one-third of hydrocarbon reserves in Ukraine.There are considerable reserves of peat and mineral building materials, phosphorite, rock and potassium salts , and gypsum.

In IX  X centuries the territory of modern Sumy region was part of Kievan Rus , to XI - XIII centuries - in the Chernigov and Seversky principalities , in XIII - XIV centuries - under the power of the Golden Horde, and in the 60 years of the XIV century the south- western part was annexed by Lithuania. From XVII to the XVIII century the area was part of Sloboda Ukraine .It was at this time or have started to develop many of the city, including Sumi ( founded as a fortress in 1655 ).

The construction of the railway Kharkov - Vorozhba especially rapidly at the end of the XIX century evolved Sumy.

Today the area is developed in industrialized regions .Here, the development of fuel and closely related to her chemical and petrochemical industries . Another branch of specialization is mechanical engineering , most businesses that makes equipment that is used either during production or processing of oil and gas.Another feature of this branch in Sumy Region is specialized in metal- profile manufacturing ( steel products, iron and aluminum), equipment for the metallurgical and mining industries oriented to the Donetsk coal basin.

The main attraction is the house- museum of APChekhov in Sumy State Historical and Cultural Reserve in Glukhov ( in the XVIII century. Hetman Capital ).

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