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About Sumy
For informational assistance and distant interpreter call: +38-050-688-31-95
Ukraine Country Code: +38 (must be dialed from outside Ukraine)
City Code: 054(2) (must be dialed from other regions of Ukraine or when using a cell phone)
Telephone numbers shown below are local numbers and can be dialed as shown when in the local area.
About Sumy
The Sumy Oblast is situated in the northeastern part of Ukraine. The area of the oblast' (23,800 km²), comprises about 3,95% of the total area of the country. The Sumy Oblast was established in 1939.
Industry
The main industrial activities of the oblast' are: chemical mechanical engineering, pumping and energy mechanical engineering, agricultural machine-construction, instrument-making industry and radio electronics, technical equipment production for processing fields of agro-industrial complexes, mining and iron ore production industry, polygraph industry and medicine production, oil and gas processing, chemical production, film and photo material production Svema, and chemical fertilizer production. In general, there are 273 large industry enterprises and 327 small industry enterprises.
Agriculture
In 1999, the gross grain yield was about 446,000 tons, sugar beets – 664,000 tons, sunflower seeds – 27,700 tons, potatoes – 343,600 tons. The region also produced 108,700 tons of meat, 517,800 tons of milk and 295,300,000 eggs. At the beginning of 1999, there were 781 registered farms in the oblast'.
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