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Sumy
Sumy is a city in north-eastern Ukraine and the centre of Sumy Oblast, on the Psel river close to the Russian border. It was founded in the 1650s by Cossack settlers from right-bank Ukraine under Herasym Kondratiev and became the seat of the Sumy Cossack regiment of Sloboda Ukraine. In the 19th century it grew into a centre of the sugar industry.
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