Sumy

on the city .

Sumy ( Sumi Ukr ) - Regional Center of the Sumy region of Ukraine. The population is about 300 thousand people. Founded in 1655.

A city river Psyol Bag (formerly Suma ) , Arrow (old bag ) in and around the town are many lakes and ponds .At a meeting of three rivers ( Bag , Purse and Psel ) built the first castle ( Detinets ) and the defensive wall (now the Cossack Val ). Noteworthy is the street with a national name Hundred , which took place from the word hundred meters ( or in honor of the hundreds of Cossacks ) , the street is very short, but it is a favorite walking place of citizens.

At the time when they decide where to build the first university in the Ukraine , Sumy considered as an alternative Kharkov , though there are still university was built in Odessa.

The name's origin .

city received its name from the rivers and Bag Purse , which washed him from two sides.Have survived a legend that the place where there are Sumi, were found hunting bag. This is reflected in the arms of the city , approved in 1781 , three black bags with gold buttons and stripes on the shield of rectangular shape.

In the middle of XVII century on the north-east of modern Ukraine in the area unusually beautiful , with traces of many ancient Slavic settlement , but then quite deserted , there was a city -fortress. Supervised the construction of the governor K.Arseniev , who wrote to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich : ... and the city , the Emperor , Sumin was on the river and Psle at the mouth of the Sumy and small rivers can extract bags and small , Your Majesty , the river fell into the river Bag bag , and Suma- river to river Psyol. They built a fortress with Russian servitors Ukrainian immigrants from the Dnieper , which have become residents of the city and surrounding settlements Possadov .It is among them and a legend was born on hunting bag , which gave the name of the city. Three bags full of gold were found in an oak forest , like a sign of blessing for the city's founding . One way or another , but on the banner of the Sumy Cossack regiment suburban , owes its inception to 1651 g was the emblem in the form of three sums, which became from 1781 g to official emblem of the city .

King of Arms Shcherbatov that actually in 1775 and developed a coat of arms as a sign to the flag of the Sumy Hussar Regiment , was guided by legend discovered in the future Sumy Cossack fortress G. Kondratiev three bags of gold , lost whether couriers Khmelnitsky , whether the royal messengers .But most likely that the city owes its name to the bag are his work hydronym ( now Case ) and bags ( now Arrow ), who long before the founding of the city had a name.

There is a perception that the coat of arms of Sumy was approved by Empress Catherine II in conjunction with the flag of the city, from which thousands of cities have been awarded such an honor only a hundred of them.The image of the flag should look in the archives of St. Petersburg. Hymn of the city at first was not, but was the regimental march of the Sumy Hussar Regiment.It is said that it was based on the melody of the Soviet era the word, so there was a very popular song : walking the streets of a big crocodile ! It was a green it ... And yet there is a legend that the name of the city still comes from the word sumuvati .Only the Cossacks in the reign of Catherine II grieved not to their former places of residence, and of beauty, which they lacked. They wrote a letter to the queen asking for help to die of boredom . And then Catherine II sent him to the most beautiful ladies. They had children of extraordinary beauty, especially girls .Since sumchanki considered the most beautiful Slav women.