Sumy municipal council

Welcome to official site of Sumy municipal council!

Sumy is a pearl of Slobozhanshchyna, it is one of 25 regional centres of Ukraine that has a considerable economic, scientific and cultural potential.

Nowadays it is a modern Ukrainian city with a great 350-years-old history, cultural heritage and numerous architectural landmarks. Dynasties of Maecenas such as the Sukhanovs and the Kharytonenkos placed themselves on record; this was place of living and inspiration for Skovoroda and Volkonskyy, Makovskyy and Trutovskyy, Petrashevych-Pleshcheyev and Korolenko, Chekhov and Kuprin, Chaykovskyy and Shchepkin.

The city is inhabited with 300 thousand people. About 100 thousand people work at 48 industrial enterprises. The most developed branches are machine-building, chemical and food industries. Products of PJSC “SMBPU named after M.V.Frunze”, PJSC “Sumykhimprom”, JSC “Nasosenergomash”, PJSC “Tsentrolit”, PJSC “Selmi”, LTD “Horobyna”, CJSC “Porcelain works” are well known not only in Ukraine but beyond its borders as well.

Sumy is a city of students. More than 30 thousand students get education at three universities – State University, which also includes Institute of Rocket Forces and Artillery, National Agrarian University, State Teachers' Training University – and only one in Ukraine Academy of Banking, two branches of Kyiv higher educational establishments.

Recently built stadium “Yuvileynyy”, track and field manege, hippodrome, biathlon track have made the regional centre a capital of sport. We are happy to have a possibility to organize any world class competitions. All these factors make our city attractive for investments and business partnership.

We hope that our site will be informative and interesting. You will get convinced in that after having looked through its pages.

So we invite you to our city on Psel!