Okhtyrka

Okhtyrka is a small metropolis in Sumy Oblast in Ukraine. Okhtyrka serves in view that 1975 as the workplace of Okhtyrka Raion. It is administratively integrated as a town of oblast significance and does now not belong to the raion. Okhtyrka is a city of Hussar and Cossack Fame. It turned into additionally as soon as a local seat of Sloboda Ukraine and the Ukrainian SSR. Since the invention of oil and gas in 1961 Okhtyrka has become an oil capital of Ukraine. It is domestic to Okhtyrka air base, ancient and non secular places of interest.

The villages of Velyke Osero Saluschany, Prystan and Kosyatyn belong to the Okhtyrka city administration that's distinctive right into a separate subdivision of the Sumy Oblast. Okhtyrka became first established by means of former Ruthenians of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth who had been escaping Polonization moving from the Right bank Ukraine to Sloboda Ukraine. Next to the new agreement Polish government installed a border outpost against the Muscovite Belgorod Border Line.