Kropyvnytskyi

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Kropyvnytskyi (Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a city in central Ukraine, situated on the Inhul River. It serves as the administrative center of Kirovohrad Oblast. Population: Template:Ua-pop-est2022

Over its history, Kropyvnytskyi has changed its name several times. The settlement was known as YelysavethradTemplate:Efn after Empress Elizabeth of Russia from 1752 to 1924, or simply Elysavet.<ref>Mikhail Levchenko. Hanshchyna (Ганьщина Україна). Opyt russko-ukrainskago slovari︠a︡. Tip. Gubernskago upravlenii︠a︡, 1874.</ref> In 1924, as part of the Soviet Union, it became known as ZinovievskTemplate:Efn after the revolutionary Grigory Zinoviev, who was born there. Following the assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934, the town was renamed Kirovo.Template:Efn

Concurrently with the formation of Kirovohrad Oblast on 10 January 1939, and to distinguish it from Kirov Oblast in central Russia, Kirovo was renamed Kirovohrad.Template:Efn<ref name="KcbK16QQ" /> As part of independent Ukraine, the name of the city was then changed to Kropyvnytskyi in 2016 due to decommunization laws, in honour of Marko Kropyvnytskyi, who was born near the city.<ref name="KcbK16QQ">Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols, BBC News (14 April 2015)
Template:In lang Verkhovna Rada renamed Kirovograd, Ukrayinska Pravda (14 July 2016)</ref> However, Kirovohrad Oblast was not renamed because it is mentioned in the Constitution of Ukraine – only a constitutional amendment could change the name of the oblast.<ref>Ukraine, The World Factbook. </ref>

Names

Yelisavetgrad

Template:Stack The name "Yelisavetgrad" (usually spelled Elisavetgrad or Elizabethgrad in English language publications) is believed to have evolved as the amalgamation of the fortress name and the common Eastern Slavonic element "-grad" (Old/Church Slavonic "градъ", "a settlement encompassed by a wall"). Its first documented usage dates back to 1764, when Yelisavetgrad Province was organized together with the Yelisavetgrad Lancer Regiment.Template:Fact

Presenting a letter of grant on 11 January 1752, to Major-General Jovan Horvat, the organizer of New Serbia settlements, Empress Elizabeth of Russia ordered "to found an earthen fortress and name it Fort St. Elizabeth".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Thus simultaneously the future city was named in honour of its formal founder, the Russian empress, and also in honor of her heavenly patroness, St. Elizabeth.Template:Fact

Zinovievsk

Following the Russian Revolution and founding of the Soviet Union, in 1924 the city was renamed Zinovievsk, after Grigory Zinoviev, a Soviet statesman and one of the leaders of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).<ref name=nnotk/> He was born in Yelisavetgrad on 20 September (September 8 O.S.), 1883. At the time he was honored by the name, he was a member of the Politburo and the Chairman of the Comintern's Executive Committee.

Kirovo and Kirovograd

On 27 December 1934, after the assassination of Sergei Kirov, Zinovievsk and other Soviet cities was renamed again - this time as Kirovo, and then as Kirovohrad.<ref name=nnotk/> The latter name appeared simultaneously with the creation of Kirovograd Oblast, on 10 January 1939<ref name=nnotk/> and was aimed at differentiating the region from Kirov Oblast in present-day Russia.

After Ukraine regained independence, the name of the city started to be spelled according to Ukrainian pronunciation as Kirovohrad. The previous Russified orthography remains widely used on account of the widespread use of the Russian language in the region.

Kropyvnytskyi

Since 1991 numerous discussions had been held on the city's name. A number of activists supported returning the city to its original name, Yelisavetgrad (or now Yelysavethrad in Ukrainian transcription). Other suggestions for contemporary Ukraine included Tobilevychi (in honour of the Template:Ill, the Coryphaei of the classic Ukrainian drama established in Yelysavethrad in 1882); Zlatopil (Template:Langx; from Ukrainian "золоте поле", literally "golden field", in reference to wheat fields; there are several places in Ukraine with this name), and Stepohrad, Ukrainian for "city of steppes" (in recognition of the agricultural status of the city); Ukrainsk or Ukrainoslav, i.e. "the glorifying Ukraine one;" and Novokozachyn (to commemorate the semi-famous Cossack regiment which could have been quartered at the present-day city location).Template:Cn

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, signed the bill on decommunization in Ukraine on 15 May 2015, which required places associated with the communist past to be renamed within a six-month period.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 25 October 2015 (during local elections) 76.6% of the Kirovohrad voters voted for renaming the city to Yelysavethrad.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A draft law at the time before the Ukrainian parliament would prohibit any names associated with Russian history since the 14th century, which would make the name Yelysavethrad inadmissible as well.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A committee of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) chose the name Inhulsk on 23 December 2015. This name is a reference to the nearby Inhul river.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 31 March 2016 the Verkhovna Rada Committee for Nation Building, Regional Politics and Local Self-Government recommended to parliament to rename Kirovohrad to Kropyvnytskyi.<ref name="Kropyvnytskyi city 31316">Template:In lang Profile Committee of the Council decided on a new name for Kirovohrad, Ukrayinska Pravda (31 March 2016)</ref> This name is a reference to writer, actor and playwright Marko Kropyvnytskyi, who was born near the city.<ref name="Kropyvnytskyi city 31316"/> On 14 July 2016, the name of the city was finally changed to Kropyvnytskyi.<ref name=nnotk/><ref>Template:In lang Verkhovna Rada renamed Kirovograd, Ukrayinska Pravda (14 July 2016)</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Administrative status

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Kropyvnytskyi railway station

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Main post office

Kropyvnytskyi serves as administrative center of Kropyvnytskyi Raion and hosts the administration of Kropyvnytskyi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.<ref name="admreform_2020_kropyvnytskyi">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Until 18 July 2020, Kropyvnytskyi was designated as a city of oblast significance and belonged to Kropyvnytskyi Municipality but not to Kropyvnytskyi Raion even though it was the center of the raion. It is divided into two districts — Fortechnyi and Podilskyi. The urban-type settlement of Nove is part of the Fortechnyi District. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kirovohrad Oblast to four, Kropyvnytskyi Municipality was merged into Kropyvnytskyi Raion.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

Before the foundation

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Monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky (installed in 1995)

In the 16th and the first half of the 18th centuries, the lands of modern Kropyvnytskyi and its adjacent districts belonged to Zaporozhian Sich.<ref>Поселення задніпрських місць до утворення Нової Сербії в документах середини XVIII століття / А. В. Пивовар.  – К.: Академперіодика, 2003.  – 336 с.</ref> On the territory of modern Kropyvnytskyi were located the settlements of Ukrainian Cossacs, which gradually turned into districts of the city, including Kuschivka, Zavadivka and Velyka Balka.<ref>Матівос Ю. М. Місто на сивому Інгулі.  – Історико-публіцистичний нарис.  – Кіровоград. ТОВ «Діаграма», 2004 р.  – c. 26.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

18th and 19th century: from military settlement to trade centre

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Walls of St. Elizabeth fortress

The history of the city beginnings dates back to the year 1754 when Fort St. Elizabeth was built on the lands of former Zaporozhian Sich in the upper course of the Inhul, Suhokleya and Biyanka Rivers.

On 9 January 1752, the Senate, based on the petition of the Serbian colonel Jovan Horvat, issues a decree on the creation of New Serbia and the construction of the fortress of St. Elizabeth for its protection.<ref>на доповіді Сената «Генваря 4 дня 1752 года подписано Ея императорского Величества рукою тако: быть по сему, а данную генерал майору Глебову инструкцию велено оной крепости учинить наперед план и для рассмотрения прислать в военную коллегию». Центральний державний військово-історичний архів Росії Ф.349, інв.№ 9, спр.1445, стор.2-4</ref> In January 1752, the decree was signed by Elizabeth of Russia, on the basis of which a thanks letter was issued to Ivan Horvath and instructions to Ivan Glebov.<ref>ДІДИК С. С. НОВОСЛОБІДСЬКИЙ КОЗАЦЬКИЙ ПОЛК (1753—1764 рр.): дис. я. канд. іст. наук: 07.00.01 / Дідик Сергій Сергійович; Запорізький національний ун-т. Запоріжжя, 2009. Template:Webarchive С. 49</ref> The mentioned documents didn't indicate the place of construction of the fortress, so it was chosen by order of Ivan Glebov.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Hadiach-Myrhorod regiment of Ukrainian Cossacks (1390 males) arrived to build the fortress, which completed the main works in four months: from June to October 1754. During the work, 72 Zaporozhians died, 233 fell ill, and 855 ran away to Sich.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This fort played a pivotal role in the new lands added to Russia by the Belgrad Peace Treaty of 1739. In 1764 the settlement received status of the center of the Elizabeth province. Also, it was from this fortress at the end of May 1775 that a 100,000-strong army led by the general Peter Tekeli set out, which on 15 June destroyed Zaporozhian Sich.<ref>Исторія Малой Россіи, со временъ присоединенія оной къ Россійскому государству при царѣ Алексѣѣ Михайловичѣ, съ краткимъ обозрѣніемъ первобытнаго состоянія сего края. Часть четвертая. — М.: Въ Типографіи Семена Селивановскаго, 1822. — С. 297−303.</ref> In 1784 the status of chief town of a district, when it was renamed after the fort as city of Yelyzavethrad.

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Aerial photograph

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Remains of earthworks

The Fort of St. Elizabeth was on a crossroads of trade routes, and it eventually became a major trade center. The city has held regular fairs four times a year. Merchants from all over the Russian Empire have visited these fairs. Also, there were numerous foreign merchants, especially from Greece. The main architect of the city in the middle of the 19th century was Dostoevsky’s brother, Andrey. Also here born writers minodav Shpolyansky (Don Aminado), Yuri Daragan and Arseny Tarkovsky. Developed around the military settlement, the city rose to prominence in the 19th century when it became an important trade centre, as well as a Ukrainian cultural leader with the first professional theatrical company in either Central or Eastern Ukraine being established here in 1882 (Theatre of Coryphaei),<ref name=nnotk>Sweeping out Soviet past: Kirovohrad renamed Kropyvnytsky, UNIAN (14 July 2016)</ref> founded by Mark Kropyvnytsky,<ref name=nnotk/> Tobilevych brothers and Maria Zankovetska.<ref name=nnotk/>

Early 20th century: famine and pogroms

Elizabethgrad was ravaged by famine in 1901 and its residents suffered more due to poor government response.

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Tram in the city

The region is extremely fertile. However, a drought in 1892 and poor farming methods which never allowed the soil to recover, prompted a large famine that plagued the region. According to a 1901 New York Times article, the Ministry of the Interior denied the persistence of famine in the region and blocked non-State charities from bringing aid to the area. The reporter wrote, "The existence of famine was inconvenient at a time when negotiations were pending for foreign loans." The governor of the Kherson region, Prince Oblonsky, refused to acknowledge this famine. One non-resident and non-State worker entered Elizabethgrad and provided The New York Times with an eyewitness account.<ref name="famine">"Famine and Disease in South Russia Province" New York Times, 5 Aug. 1901. New York Times. 26 June 2009 [1].</ref> He observed: general and acute destitution; deaths from starvation; widespread typhus (shows poverty), and little to no work to be found in the region.

Elizabethgrad was located in the Pale of Settlement and, during the 19th century, had a substantial Jewish population.

Elizabethgrad was subjected to several violent pogroms in the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1905 another riot flared, with Christians killing Jews and plundering the Jewish quarter.<ref name="enc">Rosenthal, Herman. Broyde, Isaac. Janovsy, S. Jewish Encyclopedia.com "Yelisavetgrad:Elisavetgrad", accessed 20 June 2009</ref> A contemporary account was reported in The New York Times on 13 December 1905.<ref name="pogrom">"Russian City Burning; Jews Being Massacred," NY Times, 12 Dec. 1905, accessed 25 June 2009 [2].</ref>

Ukrainian War of Independence and Ukrainian–Soviet War

During the Ukrainian revolution, the government in the city changed several times. The City Council recognized the authority of the Central Rada on 19 December 1917. in January-February 1918, street battles took place here between supporters of the Ukrainian People's Republic on one side and the Bolsheviks and their allies - anarchists led by Maria Nikiforova, on the other.<ref>Том 11. Кіровоградська область. 1972. Історія міст УРСР — ст 97</ref><ref>Народне повстання в Єлісаветграді 1918 року</ref>

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Stamp of the Elysavet Governing Council of Ukrainian People's Republic, 11 April 1918

On 7 May 1919, paramilitary leader, and former divisional general in the Red Army, Nykyfor Hryhoriv, launched an anti-Bolshevik uprising. On 8 May 1919, he issued a proclamation "To the Ukrainian People" (До Українського народу), in which he called upon the Ukrainian people to rise against the "Communist imposters", singling out the "Jewish commissars"<ref name="werth5">Template:Cite book</ref> and the Cheka. In only a few weeks, Hryhoriv's troops perpetrated 148 pogroms, the deadliest of which resulted in the massacre of upwards of 1,000 Jewish people in Yelisavetgrad, from 15 to 17 May 1919.<ref name="werth5" /> In total, about 3,000 Jews died in the city.<ref name="regmus">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Soviet Red Army eventually reconquered the city in 1920.<ref>Сергій Шевченко, Єлисаветградськими волами за українським паровозом, Вечірня газета, 7 травня 1993 р.</ref>

Ukrainian SSR

During Soviet rule, in the Ukrainian SSR, the city economy was dominated by such enterprises as Chervona Zirka Agricultural Machinery Plant (current name Elvorti; which once provided more than 50% of the USSR need in tractor seeders), Hydrosila Hydraulic Units Plant, Radiy Radio Component Plant, Pishmash Typewriter Plant (de facto defunct nowadays) and others.

During the Holodomor and Great Purge, 2238 residents of the city died.<ref>Загальноукраїнський том Національної книги пам'яті жертв Голодомору 1932–1933 років в Україні.</ref><ref>Національна книга пам'яті жертв Голодомору 1932–1933 років в Україні. Кіровоградська область.</ref>

In World War II, the city was occupied by Nazi Germany from 5 August 1941. From October 1941, the occupiers operated the Stalag 305 prisoner-of-war camp in the city, following its relocation from Rzeszów in German-occupied Poland.<ref name=ushm>Template:Cite book</ref> Abysmal conditions combined with scarce food rations even led to acts of cannibalism, whereas Jews and communists were executed.<ref name=ushm/> It was subsequently recaptured by Soviet forces on 8 January 1944.

Independent Ukraine

During the Ukrainian presidential election of 2004 the city achieved country-wide notoriety due to mass election fraud committed by local authorities and after that became known as District 100 (its community number according to the Central Elections Committee).<ref>КИУ: В Днепропетровске и Кировограде – серьезные нарушения, 20 Minutes.</ref>

After the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the policy of decommunization was introduced, during which the city was renamed in honor of the founder of the first Ukrainian theater, Marko Kropyvnytskyi.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Russian invasion of Ukraine

With the beginning of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the city began to suffer from rocket attacks by the Russian army. On the morning of 1 March 2022, the Russian occupiers fired at the Kanatove airfield near Kropyvnytskyi, trying to destroy infrastructure facilities. On 12 March 2022, Russian troops attacked the airfield near the Kanatove railway station, as a result of which 7 soldiers were killed. On the morning of 23 July 2022, 13 missiles arrived (8 Kalibr sea-based missiles and 5 Kh-22 missiles from the TU-22M3 aircraft). The enemy fired at a military airfield and a railway facility. As the result, 19 were wounded and 3 were killed. Air alarms sounded almost daily in the city.Template:Citation needed

As of 24 May 2022, there were more than 40,000 forcibly displaced people from regions of active hostilities in the city and region. According to data on 29 August 2022, this figure increased to 85,000 people. Also, during the war, various institutions and enterprises moved to Kropyvnytskyi, including Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs from Mariupol (originally Donetsk), Kharkiv Research Institute of Prosthetics, Donetsk National Medical University from Kramatorsk (originally Donetsk) and Kherson State Agrarian and Economical University.Template:Citation needed

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The orchestra of 3rd Separate Special Purpose Regiment sings for the people, 2023

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Photos of fallen heroes in the center of city, 2023

Geography

The city is in the center of Ukraine and within the Dnieper Upland. The Inhul river flows through Kropyvnytskyi. Within the city, several other smaller rivers and brooks runs in the Inhul; they include the Suhoklia and the Biyanka.

Urban layout

The city began as a settlement built in adjustment to a fortress called "Yelizaveta Fortress". At the end of 1757, the earthen fortifications were almost ready. Only the internal layout has changed, retaining its dimensions (55x55 sazhens). North of the fortress of St. Elizabeth, behind a small ravine on the banks of the Ingul, a soldier's settlement arose under the name of Grechesky or Bykovo, named after captain Bykov who was the commandant of the fortress. The main streets of Bykovo were Nizhne-Bykovskaya (Pushkin St.). Verkhne-Bykovaya (Chapaeva), Ostrovskaya, Vasilievskaya, Andreevskaya (retained its original name), Artem, Kakhovskaya, Tobilevich, Pushkina Lane, Znamensky, and Sibirskaya. <ref name="urbanlayout">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

To the east of the fortress, the Permskoye suburb appeared. It got its name from the camp of the Perm (Carabinieri) Regiment (Template:Langx), called in 1754 to cover the working people and eradicate the Gaidamaks. Permskoye was located between the river and the esplanade zone, it was a small residential area, numbering a dozen blocks with straight streets and lanes. The main streets of Perm were - (Bolshaya Permskaya), Fisanovich, Sverdlov, Bobrinetskaya, Gorky, International, lanes Krepostnoy, Postal, Ogorodny.

Soon, buildings appeared on the other side of the Ingul. This part of the settlement was called Podil and is today forming the central part of the city. The drawings of 1762 indicate that a large residential area arose here, cut by streets 10-12 sazhens wide into a grid of square and rectangular quarters. It became the core of a rapidly growing village. The main streets on Podil were Marksa Street (Bolshaya Perspektivnaya, Nikolaevsky Prospekt), Dzerzhinskya (Moskovskaya), Lenina (Dvortsovaya, Verkhne-Donskaya), Timiryazeva (Nizhne-Donskaya), Gogola (Uspenskaya), K. Liebknecht (Preobrazhenskaya, Merchant ), R. Luxembourg, (Pokrovskaya), Kalinina (Mirgorodskaya), Decembrists (Ingulskad), Company (Nevskaya, Pashutinskaya), Volodarsky (Aleksandrovskaya), Kirov (Mikhailovskaya), Krasnogvardeiskaya (Arkhangelskaya), Karabinernaya (retained its original name).<ref name="urbanlayout" />

While Bykovo and Permsky quarters were built up by the headquarters department for soldiers and officers, then in Podil they are occupied by houses of merchants and artisans. The settlements of Kovalevka and Balka, apparently founded by the Cossacks, adjoined the outskirts (in the territory of the modern part of the Balka, there is still a lane called Cossack). These settlements, which eventually merged with the suburban development into a single planning structure, initially had a picturesque, free tracing of the street network. But, if over time the layout of the Balka was subjected to only partial regulation, then only small fragments remained of the original layout of Kovalevka (Bebel St., Transportnaya St., Molodezhny Lane).<ref name="urbanlayout" />

Almost simultaneously with the appearance of the suburb, the following were built: the city market (on the site of an existing shopping center), the wooden Assumption Church (on the site of the regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine), the wooden Vladimirskaya (Greek Church), the wooden Znamenskaya Church (on Bykovo), the schismatic prayer house. These objects with ordinary, mainly wooden manor buildings, as well as with fortress structures, determined the appearance of the city in the first ten years of its development.

The planning architectural and spatial composition of the central part of the settlement consisted in the hierarchical subordination of its main street (B. Perspektivnaya, K. Marksa) with the square on it and ordinary low-rise buildings. Among this development, public houses and shops were sharp accents, and the Assumption and Vladimir churches served as dominants. The street served as the main axis of the entire composition. It divided the suburb into two equal parts and the direction of its route almost coincided with the center of the fortress. Thus, the fortress with the church in it turned into the third main dominant of the street, although it was located outside its boundaries.

In plan, the area was rectangular with an aspect ratio of 1:3 (50x150 m.). On one of the smaller sides, it adjoined the main street (Bolshaya Perspektivnaya), and on the wide side it adjoined the market and a small quarter, like the square, which is now included in the territory of the market.

From the side of the market on the square there were a gostiny dvor and butcher shops, and on the opposite and smaller sides - public buildings. Within the retranchement, the city occupied an area of 2.3 sq. km. (1.8 x 1.5 km.). From the period of the formation of the city the fortress of St. Elizabeth was the town-planning core of the settlement, the place of concentration or attraction of all its main functions. The central administrative function was concentrated in the fortress. This is the administrative management of the fortress, the subordination of the chiefs of the suburbs and settlements to the commandant of the fortress, the presence in it of the regimental office of the Cossack regiment. The religious center was also located in the fortress of St. Elizabeth, the Trinity Cathedral Church (ruined in 1813).<ref name="trinity">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The central trading function also gravitated towards the fortress. Its place of concentration is the main square. The trade function developed with the settlement of lands by artisans and merchants. And their appearance was due to the need to service military units inside a large fortress.<ref name="urbanlayout" />

Soviet period

Parallel to the Biayanka river, new streets were formed in the settlement of Balka. New quarters have grown in the village, such as Kushchevka and Novo-Alekseevka. Former village Balashovka merged with the city and organically entered its planning structure. In 1930, a general plan for the development of the city was developed. According to this plan, on the site of the square in front of the former town hall, the main square of the city was formed with a monument to Kirov in its center. In the 50s, The construction of 2-storey buildings began in the areas of Lunacharskogo and Mira streets. Also in the late 40s - early 50s. 3, 5-storey houses are being built on the Marksa Street. From the 60s, construction of massive housing estates was commenced, with Cheryomushki located in the south-west of the city being first such district, designed according to the plan of architect A.A. Sidorenko. Such housing estate was constructed also in Novo-Nikolaevka District. New master plan for the city was developed by the Kharkiv Institute Ukrgorstroyproekt, taking into account the placement of a residential multi-storey buildings in the new territories of the south-west. New residential areas were built along Heroyev Ukrainy Street (formerly Volkova Street). In the 60s, the industrial district along Balashovsky district was developed.<ref name="urbanlayout" />

Architecture

{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= Template:Ambox }} }} From 1878 to 1905 Oleksandr Pashutin served as mayor of the city. Under his administration, advances were made in the areas of education and medicine, construction of the water-supply system and several public buildings, the introduction of the first tram and the establishment of numerous marketplaces. Kropyvnytskyi is noted for the quality of its architecture, with European-style sculptures and antique windows. A range of classical and modern monuments, Moorish and Baroque palaces, and buildings that combine Gothic, Rococo and Renaissance motives are extant to this day. TodayTemplate:When a high level of building technology of Kropyvnytskyi's masters encourages further construction and restoration.

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  Great Choral Synagogue

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  Craft school

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  Mansion I.M. Marushchak

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  Early 20th century Art Nouveau architecture

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  Square in front of the city council

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  Kropyvnytskyi city council

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  Security service building

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  Art Museum

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  Osmyorkin museum

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  Old court building

Symbols

Three blue stripes crossed in the middle of the fortress plan symbolize the fortification location at the confluence of the Inhul, Suhukleya and Biyanka rivers. The crimson colour favoured by Cossacks refers to the fortress being situated on the lands of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Golden ears together with a golden field on the shield are symbols of the fertile lands and notable agricultural wealth of the region.

The shield is held by storks, which symbolizes happiness, fertility, and love for the native land. The golden tower in the form of a crown expresses that the city is a regional centre. The motto "With peace and good" placed on the azure stripe emphasizes that same idea. All the features of the flag correlate with the principal elements of the escutcheon on the coat of arms of the city.

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Language	Number	Percentage
Ukrainian	199 066	79.43%
Russian	49 907	19.91%
Other or undecided	1 656	0.66%
Total	250 629	100.00%

According to a survey conducted by the International Republican Institute in April–May 2023, 77% of the city's population spoke Ukrainian at home, and 20% spoke Russian.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Historical dynamic

Ethnic structure of the population according to population censuses:

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Ukrainians	23,6%	44,6%	72,0%	75,0%	76,9%	85,8%
Russians	34,6%	25,0%	10,9%	18,6%	19,5%	12,0%
Belarusians	0,1%	0,2%	0,4%	0,8%	0,8%	0,5%
Moldavians	0,03%	0,2%	0,7%	0,4%	0,5%	0,3%
Jews	37,8%	27,7%	14,6%	4,4%	1,9%	0,1%

Notable people

The history of Kropyvnytskyi boasts memorable events and appearances in the biographies of famous people. One of the unsurpassed creators of the modern architectural ensemble of the historical centre of the city of Kropyvnytskyi, Template:Ill was born and lived here. Such noted architects as A. Dostoyevskyi and Template:Ill worked there as well. P. Kalnyshevsky fought for the freedom of the local cossacks, M. Pirohov laid the foundation of field surgery and M. Kutuzov planned his military operations from the city. Natives listened to the lectures of the outstanding slavist Template:Ill, and inherited the knowledge of the land from the ethnographer, historian and archeologist Template:Ill.

In different periods of time the history of the region was connected with the names of the famous Ukrainian writer, playwright, publicist and statesman Volodymyr Vynnychenko, the poet, literary and cultural critic Y. Malanyuk, the physicist-theoretician, the Nobel Prize laureate Igor Tamm, the scientist and inventor, one of the creators of the legendary "Katyusha" G. Langeman, the composer Yuliy Meitus, the pianist and pedagogue G. Neigauz, the artist and painter O. Osmiorkin, the poet and translator Arseny Tarkovsky, the public and cultural figure, memoirist, patron of the arts Y. Chykalenko, the composer, pianist, pedagogue, musician and publicist K. Shymanovskyi and the Ukrainian writer, dramatist and scriptwriter Y. Yanovskyi.

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Israel Fisanovich, 1943

• Irina Belotelkin (1913–2009) a Russian-American artist and fashion designer.
• Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931) a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor and pianist
• Aaron Bodansky (1887–1960), a Russian-born American biochemist
• Israel Fisanovich (1914–1944), a Soviet Navy submarine commander
• Moses Gomberg (1866–1947), a chemistry professor at the University of Michigan.
• Boris Hessen (1893–1936), a Soviet physicist, philosopher and historian of science.
• Oleh Korostelyov (born 1949), a Ukrainian engineer and scientist.
• Boris Kotlyarov (1913-1982), a Soviet ethnomusicologist and violinist
• Zevulun "Zavel" Kwartin (1874–1952), Jewish cantor and composer
• Heinrich Neuhaus (1888–1964), Russian pianist of German and Polish descent
• Yury Olesha (1899–1960), a Russian and Soviet writer and novelist.
• Ivan Olinsky (1878–1962), a Jewish-Ukrainian and American painter and art instructor in New York and Connecticut
• Victor Orly (born 1962), a contemporary French painter
• Platon Poretsky (1846–1907), Russian Imperial astronomer, mathematician and logician
• Issachar Ber Ryback (1897–1935), a Jewish-Ukrainian-French painter and sculptor
• Afrikan Spir (1837–1890), a Russian neo-Kantian philosopher of German-Greek descent
• Arseny Tarkovsky (1907–1989), Russian poet
• Alexander Zaldostanov (born 1963), leader of the Night Wolves; Russia's largest motorcycle club
• Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent member of the CPSU

Sport

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Yevhen Konoplyanka, 2016

• Andriy Pyatov (born 1984), former Ukrainian football player
• Olesya Dudnik (born 1974) a gymnastics coach and former artistic gymnast
• Grigory Gamarnik (1929–2018), Soviet wrestler, Greco-Roman world champion<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Andrei Kanchelskis (born 1969), footballer with 456 club caps and 36 for Russia
• Boris Konfederat (born 1943), footballer and referee
• Yevhen Konoplyanka (born 1989), footballer with 275 club caps and 86 for Ukraine
• Dmytro Mykhaylenko (born 1973), footballer with 376 club caps and 23 for Ukraine
• Serhiy Nazarenko (born 1980), footballer with 375 club caps and 56 for Ukraine
• Maurice Podoloff (1890–1985), American Hockey League and National Basketball Association administrator
• Valeriy Porkujan (born 1944), footballer with 240 club caps and 8 for the Soviet Union
• Andriy Rusol (born 1983), footballer with 252 club caps and 49 for Ukraine
• Alexei Suetin (1926–2001), Russian chess grandmaster and author
• Don Aminado (1888–1957), Russian Jewish emigre writer

Climate

Kropyvnytskyi is in the central region of Ukraine. Kropyvnytskyi's climate is moderate continental: cold and snowy winters, and hot summers. The seasonal average temperatures are not too cold in winter, not too hot in summer: Template:Convert in January, and Template:Convert in July. The average precipitation is Template:Convert per year, with the most in June and July. Template:Weather box

Gallery

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  Panorama of the city, 1910s

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  Central square, 2023

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  Downhill view

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  Panorama of the city, 2023

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  Embankment of the Inhul

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  Fishermens

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  Memorial "Be brave like Ukraine"

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  Central Ukrainian Institute of Human Development

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  Regional State Administration (in front of her are photographs of fallen soldiers)

• Memorial to the victims of Holodomor in Kropyvnytskyi , November 2023.jpg

  Monument to the victims of the Holodomor

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  Monument to the victims of Soviet repressions

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  Monument to the heroes of Euromaidan

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  One of the bridges over Inhul

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  Main post office

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  Main street (Velyka Perspektyvna)

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  Inhul river

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  Embankment in the city center

See also

• Creative Group
• Kropyvnytskyi Region Universal Research Library
• Remember about the Gas — Do not buy Russian goods!
• Yatran (typewriter)

External links

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• Bez Kupur - News of Kropyvnytskyi and Kirovohrad region without limits on the truth (in Ukrainian)
• Online magazine for young people - "Grechka". News about the cultural life of Kropyvnytskyi young people and Kropyvnytskyi region young people.
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