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=== 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.