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==Names==

=== Yelisavetgrad ===
{{stack|[[File:Театральна площа міста Єлизаветграда поч ХХ ст.jpg|thumb|Theatre square in Yelisavetgrad]]}}
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 [[East Slavs|Eastern Slavonic]] element "[[Gord (Slavic settlement)|-grad]]" ([[Old East Slavic|Old]]/[[Old Church Slavonic|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.{{fact|date=April 2025}}

Presenting a letter of grant on 11 January 1752, to Major-General [[Jovan Horvat]], the organizer of [[New Serbia (historical province)|New Serbia]] settlements, Empress [[Elizabeth of Russia]] ordered "to found an earthen fortress and name it [[Fortress of St. Elizabeth|Fort St. Elizabeth]]".<ref>{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Історичне значення імені Єлисавети для нашого міста |trans-title=The Historical Meaning of the Name Elizabeth for Our City |url=http://library.kr.ua/kray/shlakhovoy/elname.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227104941/http://www2.library.kr.ua/kray/shlakhovoy/elname.html |website=[[Kropyvnytskyi Region Universal Research Library]]}}</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, [[Elizabeth (Biblical person)|St. Elizabeth]].{{fact|date=April 2025}}

=== Zinovievsk ===

Following the Russian Revolution and founding of the [[Soviet Union]], in 1924 the city was renamed '''Zinovievsk''', after [[Grigory Zinoviev]], a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] statesman and one of the leaders of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)]].<ref name=nnotk/> He was born in Yelisavetgrad on 20 September (September 8 [[Adoption of the Gregorian calendar#Adoption in Eastern Europe|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 Union|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 [[Romanization of Ukrainian|Ukrainian transcription]]). Other suggestions for contemporary Ukraine included ''Tobilevychi'' (in honour of the {{ill|Tobilevych family|uk|Тобілевичі}}, the Coryphaei of the classic Ukrainian drama established in Yelysavethrad in 1882); ''Zlatopil'' ({{langx|uk|Златопіль}}; 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 [[steppe]]s" (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 [[Cossacks|Cossack]] regiment which could have been quartered at the present-day city location).{{cn|date=May 2025}}

The President of Ukraine, [[Petro Poroshenko]], signed the bill on [[decommunization in Ukraine]] on 15 May 2015, which required places associated with the [[Ukrainian SSR|communist past]] to be renamed within a six-month period.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/265988.html|title=Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes|access-date=20 July 2016}}</ref> On 25 October 2015 (during [[2015 Ukrainian local elections|local elections]]) 76.6% of the Kirovohrad voters voted for renaming the city to Yelysavethrad.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/299070.html|title=77% of Kirovograd residents favor return of city's name of Yelisavetgrad - media|access-date=20 July 2016}}</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>{{cite web|url=http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/10/ukrainian-parliament-introduced-bill-to.html|title=Ukrainian Parliament introduced a bill to ban all Russian geographic names starting from the XIV century|access-date=20 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224104221/http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/10/ukrainian-parliament-introduced-bill-to.html|archive-date=24 December 2015|url-status=dead}}</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>{{cite web|url=http://censor.net.ua/news/366441/komitet_rady_predlagaet_pereimenovat_kirovograd_v_ingulsk_vyatrovich|publisher=Censor|title=Комитет Рады предлагает переименовать Кировоград в Ингульск, - Вятрович|date=23 December 2015 }}</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">{{in lang|uk}} [http://pda.pravda.com.ua/news/id_7103998/ 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>{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/07/14/7114702/ Verkhovna Rada renamed Kirovograd], [[Ukrayinska Pravda]] (14 July 2016)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb2/webproc4_1?pf3511=58393|title=Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України|access-date=20 July 2016}}</ref>