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Oster
Sign in to saveOster (, ) is a city in Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is located where the Oster River flows into the Desna. Oster hosts the administration of Oster urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.official_name
- Oster
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Юр'їва божниця в Острі.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Saint Michael's Church
- Settlement.image_seal
- File:Oster COA (Chernigov Governorate) (1782).png
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Raion
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Chernihiv Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Chernihiv Raion
- Settlement.population_total
- 5564
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 76
- Settlement.established_date
- 1098
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date1
- 1662
- Settlement.established_title1
- Magdeburg rights
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 111
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Oster (, ) is a city in Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is located where the Oster River flows into the Desna. Oster hosts the administration of Oster urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is
Today Oster is a river port with a cotton-textile factory and a food industry. Some parts of the old fortress in Oster have been preserved, as have the remains of the Saint Michael's Church, constructed in 1098 and the only preserved church of the medieval principality of Pereiaslav.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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