Gallery Notable people Yevhen Adamtsevych (1904-1972), prominent blind Ukrainian bandurist Haim Arlosoroff (1899–1933), notable Socialist Zionist leader Maksym Biletskyi (born 1980), Ukrainian footballer Larisa Netšeporuk (born 1970), heptathlete who represented Ukraine and Estonia Pinhas Rutenberg (1879–1942), Russian socialist revolutionary and Zionist leader in Palestine, prominent engineer and businessman Isaac Schwartz (1923–2009), Soviet composer Grigory Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant; 1888–1939), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician Joachim Stutschewsky (1891–1982), Ukraine-born Austrian and Israeli cellist, composer, and musicologist Abram Ioffe (1880–1960), prominent Russian/Soviet physicist Several of the founding members (1909-10) of Degania, the first kibbutz settlement in Palestine References External links Unofficial information Site Romny; Site Romen; Cities in Sumy Oblast Romensky Uyezd Kiev Voivodeship Shtetls Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Populated places established in the 10th century