Sobycheve () is a village in

Shostka Raion Shostka Raion () is a raion (district) of Sumy Oblast in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Shostka Shostka (, ) is a city in Sumy Oblast, northeastern Ukraine. Shostka serves as the administrative center of ...

Sumy Oblast Sumy Oblast (), also known as Sumshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in northeast Ukraine. The oblast was created in its modern-day form, from the merging of raions from Kharkiv Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, and Poltava Oblast in 1939 by the Presid ...

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

Demographics

According to the 1989 census, the population of Sobycheve was 775 people, of whom 329 were men and 446 were women. Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:Розподіл населення за рідною мовою на ukrcensus.gov.ua

Notable residents

Trokhym Lukashenko, the maternal grandfather of

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making hi ...

, was born in Sobycheve.

References

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