Oster

Oster

Остер
Oster Остер
City
	Saint Michael's Church
	Seal
	Oster Oster
	Coordinates: 50°56′55″N 30°52′52″E / 50.94861°N 30.88111°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Chernihiv Oblast
Raion	Chernihiv Raion
First mentioned	1098
Magdeburg rights	1662
Area
• Total	76 km2 (29 sq mi)
Elevation	111 m (364 ft)
Population (2022)
• Total	5,564

Oster (Ukrainian: Осте́р, IPA: [osˈtɛr]; Russian: Остёр, romanized: Ostyor) 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.^[1] Its population is 5,564 (2022 estimate).^[2]

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.

^ "Остерская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.

[admreform_2020_oster-1] "Остерская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.

[ua2022estimate-2] Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.

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