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Lubny (, ) is a city in Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Lubny Raion. It also hosts the administration of , one of the of Ukraine. Population:
Initially, it was a small wooden fortress above the Sula River. The fortress quickly grew, and in the 15th or 16th century, it was owned by the powerful Wisniowiecki family. The town was ruled by Magdeburg rights and had a coat of arms.
In 1596, Lubny was the site of the last battle of Severyn Nalyvaiko against the Poles. In the 17th century the city was one of the largest in the area. In 1638 it had 2,646 inhabitants.
After Khmelnytsky Uprising, between 1648 and 1781, the town was the headquarters of the Lubny Regiment.
In 1782 Lubny became an uyezd center of Kiev Viceroyalty, in 1793 the town was included into Malorossiya Governorate, since 1802 - into Poltava GovernorateЛубны // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / редколл., гл. ред. Б. А. Введенский. 2-е изд. том 25. М., Государственное научное издательство «Большая Советская энциклопедия», 1954. стр.439
After a railroad line was constructed through Lubny in 1901, industry grew rapidly and expanded in the city.
A local newspaper («Лубенщина») has been circulating in the city since July 1917.№ 6800 «Красная Лубенщина» («Червона Лубенщина» // Газеты СССР 1917—1960. Библиографический справочник. том 3. М., «Книга», 1978. стр.224Газеты дореволюционной России 1703—1917. Каталог. СПб., 2007. стр.91
During the Nazi Germany occupation in the Second World War, Lubny was the centre of major Soviet partisans. Two Nazi concentration camps were there.Концентрационные лагеря, образованные на территории СССР немецко-фашистскими захватчиками в 1941-1944 гг. Список составлен по материалам Чрезвычайной Государственной Комиссии (ЧГК) // газета "Судьба", июнь 1995. стр.3-6 On 16 October 1941 over a thousand of the city's Jews, including women and children, were massacred by German Einsatzgruppen on the outskirts of the city. The action, all the way until the execution, was thoroughly documented by photographer Johannes Hähle.United States Holocaust Museum, Einsatzgruppen (Mobile Killing Units)
Until 18 July 2020, Lubny was designated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to Lubny Raion even though it was the center of the raion. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four, the city was merged into Lubny Raion.
Lubny also has its own soccer team, FC Lubny. Several museums and art galleries are located there, and the district is known for the bookstores that carry a wide variety of technical and non-technical books.
A second local newspaper, Visnyk (Вісник) is published in the city since 1994.
The main landmark of the Lubny District is the Mharsky Monastery, with a large six-pillared Ukrainian Baroque cathedral, built in 1684–92 and renovated after a conflagration in 1754, and a neoclassical bell tower, started in 1784 but not completed until 1844.
| Ukrainian | 91.06% |
| Russian | 8.61% |
| other/undecided | 0.33% |
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