Shostka

Shostka is a metropolis in Sumy Oblast in the north east of Ukraine. Shostka serves because the place of work of Shostka Raion. It is administratively integrated as a metropolis of oblast importance and does now not belong to the raion population 77,134. The city lies on the Shostka River, a tributary of the Desna, from which it gets its name. Shostka is a critical centre of industry in chemical compounds and in dairy the Shostka City Milk Plant become lately obtained with the aid of the Bel Group. Shostka started out as a village at the start of the 17^th century for Ukrainian Cossacks which have been based totally there.

In 1739, a gunpowder manufacturing unit changed into built there. Since that point Shostka became one of the most essential gunpowder providers inside the Russian Empire. In 1893, a department of a close by railroad line becomes constructed. Shostka become granted municipal rights in 1920. In 1931, a film manufacturing facility become constructed in Shostka which was one of the predominant providers of cinema and photograph film in the USSR.