Chervone (Sumy oblast) [Червоне; Červone]. Map: II-15. Town smt (2005 pop 1,882) in Hlukhiv raion, Sumy oblast. Chervone has a sugar refinery and a distillery. First mentioned in a historical document in 1615 and called Yesman until 1957, it was a raion center from 1923 to 1963.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]


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