Sumy Raion
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Sumy Raion
Сумський район | |
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 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Raion location in Sumy Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 51°1′32.8944″N 34°51′39.7152″E / 51.025804000°N 34.861032000°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Sumy Oblast |
| Admin. center | Sumy |
| Subdivisions | 16 hromadas |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,503.7 km2 (2,511.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 434,316 |
| • Density | 66.780/km2 (172.96/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Website | http://sumy-region.gov.ua/ |
Sumy Raion (Ukrainian: Сумський район, romanized: Sumskyi raion) is a raion (district) in Sumy Oblast in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Sumy, which was formerly administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance until 2020. Population: 434,316 (2022 estimate).[1]
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Sumy Oblast was reduced to five, and the area of Sumy Raion was significantly expanded.[2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 61,836 (2020 est.).[4]
Environmental protection activities
The area of the district is 6503.7 km2.[5] Sumy Raion is located on the slopes of the Central Russian Upland.[6]
The climate is moderately continental. Winter is cool, summer is not hot. The average temperature in July is +19 °C, in January -7.5 °C. The maximum precipitation falls in the summer in the form of rain. The average annual amount is from 650 to 700 mm, changing from west to east.[7][8]
Psel, left tributary of the Dnipro flow through the Sumy Raion. The river in the floodplain has many oxbow lakes and artificial lakes.[6][9]
Sumy Raion is located in the forest-steppe natural zone. Among the trees in the forests, oaks, lindens, and maples dominate. Typical large mammals are elk, roe deer, wild boar, squirrels, beavers, hares and wolves.[8] The most common soils in the area are typical black earths, gray, meadow, and meadow-bog soils.[8]
Sumy Raion has reserves of clay, sapropel, phosphorite.[10][11]
In the Sumy Raion, the Michael's Virgin Land Nature Reserve, the Kyianytskyi Park is a monument of landscape architecture of national importance, the Banny Yar and Srednoseymsky nature reserves of national importance are located.[12] Animals and plants listed in the Red Book of Ukraine that are found in the territory of the Sumy Raion: Adonis vernalis, Pulsatilla patens, Stipa capillata, Greater blind mole-rat, Great jerboa.[13][14][15] Among the rare bird species, there are the gray magpie, Montagu's harrier, Common kestrel, and woodcock.[8]
