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One of the main temples of the city
A two-tiered cathedral was erected in the city center, on the site of a wooden church. The first architect who designed the temple is unknown. From 1882 to 1892, under the leadership of Mikhail Lovtsov, a major reconstruction of the church was carried out.
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8 years ago
The whole world is theater. It has women, men - all actors (c)
The Sumy Theater of Drama and Musical Comedy was founded in Lubny in 1933 on the basis of the Kharkov Mobile Theatre. In 1939, together with the creation of the Sumy region, the theater was transferred to Sumy.
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"Sweet" monument
The sculpture "Sweet Tooth Babies" was installed in 2007 in memory of the Kharitonenko family's sugar industry, which ensured the prosperity of the city in the 19th century.
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8 years ago
A temple with a difficult history
Pavel Kharitonenko, the son of Sumy sugar producer Ivan Kharitonenko, who continued to build his father's sugar empire, ordered the construction of the church as his own tomb.
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Venue for football games, mass concerts and events
Jubilee Stadium was built on the site of Spartak Stadium, which housed 12.000. spectators and was demolished to make way for his heir. The project of the new stadium was developed by architects Vladimir Bykov and Ivan Lukash, based on the Yerevan Hrazdan Stadium.
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8 years ago
The main fountain of the city
In fact, the Sadko Fountain* was built in 1985, but the central bronze sculpture was made back in 1975 by the Kyiv artist Yevgeny Kulikov. Designing his work, Kulikov took the epic about Sadko as a basis.
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It is not given to us to predict how our word will respond (c)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, having spent three summers at the Lintvarevs' estate on Luka, described his impressions of his stay in Sumy with a short but capacious phrase “..
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Favorite place of citizens for rest and promenade
The Kozhedub Park of Culture and Recreation is popularly called an "adult" as opposed to the "children's" park Skazka. The total area of the park is about 58 hectares.
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One of the small and cozy places to stay
The first monument to the Kobzar was erected in Shevchenko Square in 1926. The monument by Ivan Kavaleridze was made in the style of constructivism. But soon the artist fell out of favor, first with Stalin, then with Khrushchev, and his work was declared "harmful.
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Sobornaya Street, aka Hundred
Why the central promenade of the city is popularly called the Hundred is not known for certain. The most popular version says that this is due to the street length of a hundred meters.
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Resting place for families with children
Skazka Children's Park was founded in 1985. It was a unique park for that time. A sort of "Disneyland" in Sumy - there were numerous attractions and a children's cafe, there were ancient castles and a wooden fortress, and at the entrance everyone was met by a bowing cat in boots.
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8 years ago
Monument to standard Soviet buildings
The square was designed in 1968 and bore the name of Lenin, typical for that time. On the right is the hotel "Sumy" (now closed), on the left - the regional administration.
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Modern contact monument
Why was the monument dedicated to the bag? Because according to one of the versions, the name of the city comes from three bags of gold, which were found at the site of the founding of Sumy.
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An example of Cossack Baroque
The first construction of the Holy Resurrection Cathedral dates back to 1702. Later, the church was completed and rebuilt several times. The temple was built at the expense of Sumy colonels Gerasim and Andrey Kondratiev.
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8 years ago
Center of cultural life of the city
Sumy Municipal Gallery (aka SMuga) is a place of creative meetings, poetry readings, small concerts, exhibitions of traditional and contemporary art. The exposition space of the gallery consists of two halls with a total area of .
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8 years ago
For lovers of murals and other informal art
As part of the urban street art festival "Colored City", young artists from all over Ukraine painted the walls of houses (in total, about 15 facades were painted). The theme of the project is "Classics".
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For lovers of contact sculptures
The monument was opened on September 1.2012. Bogdan Lyuklyan from Sumy became the author of the project. The height of the sculpture is 1.8 m. The monument is made of bronze using the wax casting method by Kharkov craftsmen.
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8 years ago
Business card Sumy
An open wooden gazebo and a symbol of the city. It belongs to the rarest direction of architecture in local development - historicism and is an example of small architectural structures.
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8 years ago
Kharitonenko is a capitalist - a philanthropist / Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron /
Kharitonenko Ivan Gerasimovich The largest entrepreneur of the Kharkov province of his time. Benefactor. Maecenas. The person to whom the city of Sumy owes its development.
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8 years ago
A place with a complicated history
Today's Pokrovskaya Square is a cozy and peaceful place to relax, which in no way reminds of its stormy "youth". In the 30s of the 20th century, after the Bolsheviks blew up the church that stood here, the square began to be used for executions.
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8 years ago
Church is a ghost
The church, consecrated in the name of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, became the first church built outside the Sumy fortress. It had the status of a regimental temple, opposite it was the first city cemetery.
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8 years ago
Two-storey house of the palace type
The estate was built in 1895 by a Sumy merchant of the 2nd guild, Nikolai Alekseevich Sukhanov (nephew of the Sukhanovs, local merchants and industrialists). At that time, the complex consisted of three buildings - the main residential two-story building with architectural decorations (now the Insti...
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Amazing work of French sculptor Aristide Croisy
The monument is made of white Italian marble and installed on the grave of Zinaida, the granddaughter of Sumy sugar factory and philanthropist Kharitonenko. As the entry in the metric book of the Trinity Church for 1889 says, Zinaida died on May 7 and was buried on May 8 at the age of 8 years.
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The only temple in Ukraine built in honor of Saint Valentine
St. Valentine's Church is unique in that this typical church was erected on the territory of a higher educational institution - the Sumy National Agrarian University. The project of the temple (more than 27 meters high) was developed by local architects V.
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8 years ago
Beach in bad weather
Playa de Langosteira has almost 2 kilometers of coastline, characterized by calm, clear water and quality sand. Well protected from waves and winds. But! This is all in good weather.
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9 years ago