Shumsk
Shumsk (Ukrainian: Шумськ, Polish: Szumsk, Yiddish: שומסק, romanized: Shimsk) is a city in Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Shumsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population is 5,300 (2022 estimate).[2]
Shumsk
Шумськ | |
|---|---|
 Church of Transfiguration | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Shumsk | |
| Coordinates: 50°07′22″N 26°06′52″E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Ternopil Oblast |
| Raion |  Kremenets Raion |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 5,161 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Until 18 July 2020, Shumsk was the administrative center of Shumsk Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Shumsk Raion was merged into Kremenets Raion.[3][4]
Gallery
Church of the Immaculate Conception in Shumsk
Monument to Vasyl Shyshkovskyi, demolished in 2017
Skyline of Shumsk in 1938
People from Shumsk
- Konstantin Igelström (1799–1851), Russian noble and Decembrist
- Jan Savitt (1907–1948), American bandleader.
People associated with Shumsk
- Michał Kazimierz "Rybeńko" Radziwiłł (1702–1762), Polish-Lithuanian noble, owner of Shumsk.
References
- "Шумская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
- "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
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