Shostka

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Coordinates: 51°52′N 33°29′E / 51.867°N 33.483°E / 51.867; 33.483

Shostka
Шостка
City
Flag of Shostka
Flag
Official seal of Shostka
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Shostka is located in Sumy Oblast
Shostka
Shostka
Coordinates: 51°52′N 33°29′E / 51.867°N 33.483°E / 51.867; 33.483
Country Ukraine
Oblast Sumy Oblast
RaionCity of Shostka
Founded18th century
Area
 • Total36 km2 (14 sq mi)
Elevation
171 m (561 ft)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total74,125
Websitehttp://www.shostka-rada.gov.ua/

Shostka (Ukrainian: Шостка) is a city in Sumy Oblast in the north-east of Ukraine. Shostka serves as the administrative center of Shostka Raion. It is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Population: 74,125 (2020 est.)[1]

The town lies on the , a tributary of the Desna, from which it gets its name. Shostka is an important centre of industry: in chemicals (see Svema) and in dairy, the Shostka City Milk Plant was recently acquired by the Bel Group.

History[]

Shostka started out as a village at the beginning of the 17th century for Ukrainian Cossacks which were based there. In 1739, a gunpowder factory was built there. Since that time Shostka was one of the most important gunpowder suppliers in the Russian Empire. In 1893, a branch of a nearby railroad line was built. Shostka was granted municipal rights in 1920. In 1931, a film factory was built in Shostka which was one of the main suppliers of cinema and photo film in the USSR.

Demographics[]

Shostka's population: 1926 - 8,600 inhabitants, 1959 - 39,000 inhabitants, 1970 - 64,000 inhabitants, 1979 - 80,000 inhabitants, 1984 - 84,000 inhabitants

Sports[]

Shostka is home to the Ukrainian football team .

The city is the birthplace of Lightweight Boxer Ivan Redkach.

In popular culture[]

Shostka is the hometown of the fictional Mousekewitz family in the 1986 animated film An American Tail, the opening of which depicts a Cossack (and cat) raid on the town. Although set in the 1880s when Ukraine was a part of the Russian Empire, the film's claim in text that Shostka is based in Russia, rather than Ukraine, is inaccurate.

Gallery[]

  • Nativity of Christ Church

  • Local museum on Svobody Boulevard

  • School Nr. 2

  • Sadovyi Boulevard

  • Residential buildings on Deputatska Street

References[]

  1. ^ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 September 2020.

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