City Detail

Kropyvnytskyi (Ukrainian: Кропивницький, romanized: Kropyvnytskyi [kropɪu̯ˈnɪtsʲkɪj] (listen)) is a city in central Ukraine on the Inhul river with a population of 222,695 (2021 est.). It is an administrative center of the Kirovohrad Oblast. Over its history, Kropyvnytskyi has changed its name several times. The settlement was known as Yelysavethrad (Ukrainian: Єлисаветград [jɛlʲisavʲɛtˈɣrad]) after Empress Elizabeth of Russia (r. 1741–1761) from 1752 to 1924 as well as simply Elysavet. In 1924 it became Zinovievsk (Ukrainian: Зінов'євськ, [zʲinɔvˈɛvsʲk]) in honour of the Bolshevik revolutionary and Politburo member Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936), who was born there. Following the assassination of the First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Sergei Kirov (in office 1926–1934), the town was renamed Kirovo (Ukrainian: Кірово [ˈkʲirɔvɔ]) in Kirov's honour on 7 December,...