Kirovograd - City Information

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Kirovohrad, city in central Ukraine, capital of Kirovohrad Oblast, on the Inhul River, about 100 km (about 60 mi) northwest of Kryvyy Rih. Located on the fertile Dnieper River upland where grains, sugar beets, and sunflowers are grown, Kirovohrad is an agricultural trade and machine-building center and a highway hub. It has a rail depot and an airport. Population 239,400 (2004 est.).

Founded on Zaporozhian Cossack territory by the Russian imperial government, the fortress protected settlers on Russia's southern frontier from the raids of Ottomans and Crimean Tatars. It served as a base of operations against the Ottoman Empire from 1768 to 1774 during the Russo-Turkish Wars. The town that grew up around the fortress was named Yelizavetgrad in 1775. Major growth occurred after the arrival of a railroad in the late 1860s and the establishment of the British-owned Ellworthy farm-machinery plant in 1874. The city was renamed Zinov'yevs'k after Grigory Zinoviev, a Soviet statesman and one of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) leaders in 1924, Kirovo in 1934, and Kirovohrad in 1939.

In Soviet times the city rose to the status of an agricultural and light industry centre whose fame was due to such enterprises as Chervona Zirka Agricultural Machinery Plant (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) etc. The recent history of Kirovohrad saw the imminent decline of the city's industrial potential and general socioeconomic value. Since 2002 the economics of Kirovohrad has been slowly reviving. During the last decade deposits of gold were discovered in Kirovograd Region. In future it can favor the development of gold-mining industry. The existing industries include food industry, machine-building and metal-working industry, power-engineering, building materials industry , fuel industry, non-ferrous metallurgy , light industry. Kirovograd Region is famous for the production of nearly all types of sowing and harvesting machines, electrical lifting cranes, brown coal briquettes, nickel, graphite, mineral wax, etc. The economy of Kirovograd Region is mainly specialized in agriculture. Plant cultivation takes the leading place in the agricultural gross output (73%) of Kirovograd Region; livestock farming has 27%.

Institutions in Kirovohrad include an institute of agricultural machine building, a teacher training institute, a pilot school, a music and drama theater, a puppet theater, a philharmonic orchestra, and a regional museum. Kirovohrad also has churches from the 19th century and part of the site's original fortress (built in 1754), then called Saint Elizabeth.

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