Romny (Ukrainian: Ромни, IPA: [romˈnɪ] ⓘ) is a city in Sumy Oblast, northern Ukraine.

Romny was the terminus of the Libau-Romny railway which was built to deliver Ukrainian goods, mostly grains, for export.

In Romny the first statue of Taras Shevchenko was erected on 27 October 1918 when the city was located in the newly established Ukrainian state.

[3] Unimaginable suffering was inflicted on the people of Romny during the years of Bolshevik rule, two world wars, famines, and repressions.

The ethnic composition was as follows:[6] Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[7] The cathedral of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1735 in place of a wooden church, is a four-pillared cathedral designed in the Ukrainian Baroque style and is surmounted by three pear-shaped domes, each placed on a tall cylinder.