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Lebedyn railway station

railway station in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ25445349 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lebedyn (Ukrainian: Лебединська) is a railway terminus in Lebedyn, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. It is at the end of the Boromlia–Lebedyn line of the Sumy Directorate of Southern Railways.

The station is located 16 kilometres (10 mi) away from Riabushky station and 36 km (22 mi) away from Boromlia station at the intersection with the main line.

Passenger service

The station serves both passenger and suburban train on a limited schedule.

Notes

Tariff Guide No. 4. Book 1 (as of 05/15/2021) (Russian) Archived 05/15/2021.

Arkhangelsky A.S., Arkhangelsky V.A. in two books. - M.: Transport, 1981.

Editorial summary

“Lebedyn railway station” enters the record as railway station in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lebedyn, railway and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lebedyn, railway and station.
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Why this record matters

“Lebedyn railway station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lebedyn, railway and station provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25445349. Authority coordinates are 50.569, 34.491. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lebedyn railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.