A two-tiered cathedral was erected in the city center, on the site of a wooden church. The first architect who designed the temple is unknown. From 1882 to 1892, under the leadership of Mikhail Lovtsov, a major reconstruction of the church was carried out.
The Sumy Theater of Drama and Musical Comedy was founded in Lubny in 1933 on the basis of the Kharkov Mobile Theatre. In 1939, together with the creation of the Sumy region, the theater was transferred to Sumy.
The sculpture "Sweet Tooth Babies" was installed in 2007 in memory of the Kharitonenko family's sugar industry, which ensured the prosperity of the city in the 19th century.
Pavel Kharitonenko, the son of Sumy sugar producer Ivan Kharitonenko, who continued to build his father's sugar empire, ordered the construction of the church as his own tomb.
Jubilee Stadium was built on the site of Spartak Stadium, which housed 12.000. spectators and was demolished to make way for his heir. The project of the new stadium was developed by architects Vladimir Bykov and Ivan Lukash, based on the Yerevan Hrazdan Stadium.
In fact, the Sadko Fountain* was built in 1985, but the central bronze sculpture was made back in 1975 by the Kyiv artist Yevgeny Kulikov. Designing his work, Kulikov took the epic about Sadko as a basis.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, having spent three summers at the Lintvarevs' estate on Luka, described his impressions of his stay in Sumy with a short but capacious phrase “..
The Kozhedub Park of Culture and Recreation is popularly called an "adult" as opposed to the "children's" park Skazka. The total area of the park is about 58 hectares.
The first monument to the Kobzar was erected in Shevchenko Square in 1926. The monument by Ivan Kavaleridze was made in the style of constructivism. But soon the artist fell out of favor, first with Stalin, then with Khrushchev, and his work was declared "harmful.
Why the central promenade of the city is popularly called the Hundred is not known for certain. The most popular version says that this is due to the street length of a hundred meters.
Skazka Children's Park was founded in 1985. It was a unique park for that time. A sort of "Disneyland" in Sumy - there were numerous attractions and a children's cafe, there were ancient castles and a wooden fortress, and at the entrance everyone was met by a bowing cat in boots.
The square was designed in 1968 and bore the name of Lenin, typical for that time. On the right is the hotel "Sumy" (now closed), on the left - the regional administration.
Why was the monument dedicated to the bag? Because according to one of the versions, the name of the city comes from three bags of gold, which were found at the site of the founding of Sumy.