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Kropyvnytskyi (Ukrainian: Кропивницький, IPA: [kropɪu̯ˈnɪtsʲkɪj] ⓘ) is a city in central Ukraine, situated on the Inhul River. It serves as the administrative center of Kirovohrad Oblast .
Between 1939 and 2016, the oblast administrative center, Kropyvnytskyi, was called Kirovohrad and was named after the First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Sergei Kirov. [21] Due to decommunization laws (on 14 July 2016) the name of the city was changed to Kropyvnytskyi. [21]
Kropyvnytskyi Raion is a raion (district) of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Kropyvnytskyi (until July 2016 Kirovohrad). Population: 429,585 (2022 estimate).
The city of Kropyvnytskyi is shown in dark blue. Before July 2020, Kirovohrad Oblast was subdivided into 25 regions: 21 districts ( raions ) and 4 city municipalities ( mis'krada or misto ), officially known as territories governed by city councils .
[3] [4] [5] As of 5 December 2001, the date of the first and only official census in the country since independence, [a] the most populous city in the oblast was the regional capital, Kropyvnytskyi, with a population of 254,103 people, while the least populous city was Blahovishchenske, with 7,526 people.
Kropyvnytskyi urban territorial hromada (Ukrainian: Кропивницька міська територіальна громада, romanized: Kropyvnytska miska terytorialna hromada) is a hromada in Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Kropyvnytskyi. [1]
The Fortress of St. Elizabeth (Ukrainian: Фортеця Святої Єлисавети, also known locally as "earthworks" [1]) is former earthen fortress in the form of a six-pointed star in the city of Kropyvnytskyi in central Ukraine, which became the main symbol of the city.
Znamianka Municipality combined the city of Znamianka, the urban-type settlement of Znamianka Druha, and the four villages : Petrove, Vodiane, Sokilnyky and Novooleksandrivka. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kirovohrad Oblast to four, Znamianka Municipality was merged into Kropyvnytskyi Raion.