Shostka (, ) is a city in Sumy Oblast, northeastern Ukraine. Shostka serves as the administrative center of Shostka Raion. Population:
The city 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, acquired by the Bel Group.
History In 1739, a gunpowder factory (now ) 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.
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Shostka was besieged by Russian troops on February 24. and may have been partially occupied. During the withdrawal from the Chernihiv Oblast and Sumy Oblast, Russian troops left Shostka.
Demographics Shostka's population: 1926 — 8,600 inhabitants, 1959 — 39,000 inhabitants, 1970 — 64,000 inhabitants, 1979 — 80,000 inhabitants, 1984 — 84,000 inhabitants. In 2001, Shostka had a population of 87,200 inhabitants. The ethnic and linguitsic composition was as follows:
Sports Shostka has the football team .
In popular culture Shostka is the hometown of the fictional Mousekewitz mice family in the 1986 animated film An American Tail, the opening of which depicts Cossack and Cossacks' cats raiding the town.
Notable people Dmitry Chechulin (1901, Shostka – 1981, Moscow), Soviet Stalinist architect Vitalii Huliaiev, soldier ; lived in Shostka in his early years Ihor Molotok, politician Iryna Novozhylova, sportswoman Vyacheslav Serdyuk, sportsman Oleksandr Sorokalet (volleyball) Olena Zubrilova, sportswoman Masha Kondratenko, singer
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