Esman

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Esman
Эсмань
Urban-type settlement
Esman is located in Sumy Oblast
Esman
Esman
Location in Sumy Oblast
Coordinates: Coordinates: 51°46′06″N 34°02′58″E / 51.76833°N 34.04944°E / 51.76833; 34.04944
CountryUkraine
OblastSumy Oblast
RaionShostka Raion
Population
 (2021)
 • Total1,328
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Esman (Ukrainian: Есмань, Russian: Эсмань) is an urban-type settlement in Shostka Raion of Sumy Oblast in Ukraine. It is located on the left bank of the , a right tributary of the , in the drainage basin of the Dnieper. Esman hosts the administration of , one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 1,328 (2021 est.)[2]

The settlement was called Chervone, which means Red, until 2016. On 19 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Chervone to Esman according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.[3]

Until 18 July 2020, Esman belonged to Hlukhiv Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Sumy Oblast to five. The area of Hlukhiv Raion was merged into Shostka Raion.[4][5]

Economy[]

Transportation[]

The settlement has access to Highway M02 which connects it with Kyiv and Chernihiv, and to the north, across the Russian border, with Oryol and Moscow.

is located approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the settlement. It is a terminal station of a line from , and there is no passenger traffic. Until the 1990s, it was a through station on a railroad connecting Orsha and Donetsk, but then the line south of Esman was demolished, since a short section of it was crossing Russia. The closest railway station with passenfer traffic is Khutir-Mykhailivskii.

References[]

  1. ^ "Эсманская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  3. ^ Скакун, Сергей (19 May 2016). "Верховна Рада переименовала 20 сел на Сумщине". Данкор онлайн (in Russian).
  4. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  5. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
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