The towns of Sumy region.

Glukhiv is a district town known since 1152 as a town of the Chernihiv Principality. The name comes from " glukhyi" lonely, remote. It is the hometown of Ukrainian painters Anton Losenko /1737-1773/, Kostiantyn Lomykin and Mykola Murashko /1844-1909/; composers Maksym Berezovs'kyi /1745-1777/ and Dmytro Bortnians'kyi /1751-1825/. In 1738 the first in Ukraine school of singers was open in Glukhiv.

Konotop is a district town known since 1638. Once it was a Polish fortification near the ford of

the Yezuch River where horses used to stick.

Krolevets is a district town known since 1601. It is believed to be named after the Polish king Sigismund III /1566-1632/who took advantage of Russia's weakness after the death of Boris Godunov and invaded Moscow in 1610-12/

Lebedyn is a district town on the Vilshanka River. In 1652, saving themselves from the oppression

of the Polish magnates, the settlers from the Right-Bank Ukraine settled on the Left-Bank of the

Dnieper where there were many swans /lebid" in Ukrainian/. It has a monument of the wooden architecture - the Church of Ressurection built in 1748.

Okhtyrka is a district town on the Vorskla River. It was founded in 1641 by the peasants and

Cossacks from the Right-Bank Ukraine. The name comes from the Turkic " ak tura" - A White Fortress. The Okhtyrka Cossack regiment /1655-1765/ was dislocated here to defend the southern borders. In 1765 it was reorganized in the Hussar regiment and the Cossack became " military residents".

Putyvl is a district town on the Seim River. It was founded in 1146. The town stands at the crossing of the roads /put' is a way in Ukrainian/. It boasts of the Transfiguration Cathedral /17 c/, the church of Cossack Nicholas /18 c/. There are monuments to S. Rudnev, S. Kovpak and Yarostavna.

Romny is a district town on the Sula River. It is known since 1096 and is mentioned as Rym in the " Lay of Ihor's Host". It was a fortress of Kyivan Rus at the site where the Romen River empties into the Sula.

Trostianets is a district town on the Boromlia River. It was founded by the settlers from Vinnytsia

area of the Trostianytsia River in 1660. The name of the river comes from a cane /cane is " trostyna" in Ukrainian/. It boasts of the museum of outstanding composer P.I. Chaikovs'kyi /1840-1893/ who visited Ukraine every year and composed opera " Mazepa" /1883/.

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