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Ognivshchyna is a park-monument of landscape art of local significance in Ukraine. Object of Nature Reserve Fund in Sumy region.

Location
Ognishchyna track is located in Romny(town), on the corner of Gorky and Hetman Mazepa streets near the Romny сollege SNAU(the branch of Sumy National Agrarian University).

General characteristics
The area of the Ognivshchyna tract is 43 hectares. The status of a park-monument of landscape art was awarded in 1972. The conservation area is included in the Nature Reserve Fund of Ukraine, which is preserved as a national heritage. The tract is part of the world system natural areas and objects that are under the special protection. The monument is administered by the Main Department of Municipal Economy.

Sometimes the park is called «Roscha»(russian way). There are natural springs that feed the man-made lake here. Protected area includes more than 30 plant species and an equal number of animal species. This area is under control and protection of the Romny Agrarian College, located in the territory of the park.

Ognishchyna track has scientific-educational, health-improving, sanitary-hygienic significance. It is a place of rest for the city residents. The park is visited by 15,000 residents of Romny every year.

History
The park was founded at the end of the XIX century on the site of an old oak and maple forest. Walking through the alleys of the old park, you can see oaks that are more than 100 years. Due to the lack of proper maintenance and financing, unique landscape composition, historical planning structure are lost, age-old trees are shrinked. Sumy National Agrarian University initiated the renewal of the unique Sumy heritage. Students of the Sumy together with the Romny City Council and SNAU, have taken the first steps in the development of «Project of maintenance and reconstruction of the park-monument of landscape art local significance «Ognishchyna».

Source

 * List of protected areas (Sumy region)
 * Заповідні скарби Сумщини /Під загальною редакцією д.б.н. Андрієнко Т.Л.. – Суми: Видавництво «Джерело»; 2001. – 208 стор., 28 кольор. іл.
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20161206002452/http://www.sau.sumy.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5724:2016-11-24-12-35-01&catid=310:2012-03-27-08-32-39&Itemid=239&lang=uk