Romny

Romny is a town 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 town of oblast importance and does now not belong to the raion. The villages of Lutschky, Kolisnykove and Hrabyne belong to the Romny Municipality population 40,681. The town turned into based in 902 AD. On September 16, 2002 the city celebrated its 1100th anniversary. Romny become first mentioned in documents in 1096. By 1638, the city had a population of 6,000 inhabitants, which made it through a long way the largest agreement within the place. In 1781, the town became granted a constitution through the Tsarina Catherine II.

In Romny the first statue of Taras Shevchenko was erected on 27 October 1918 when the city became placed within the Ukrainian kingdom, however it became preserved as part of the Soviet Union Ukrainization rules. The concrete statue in Romny started out to decay in the 1950's, however became remade in bronze and re-unveiled in 1982. The original model of the monument is positioned on Kiev's Andriyivskyy Descent. During World War II, Romny was occupied by means of the German Army from September 10, 1941 to September 16, 1943.