Bobrynets (, ; ; ) is a city in

Kropyvnytskyi Raion 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: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, ...

Kirovohrad Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast (), also known as Kirovohradshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (''province'') in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Kropyvnytskyi. The oblast's population is It is ...

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. It hosts the administration of

Bobrynets urban hromada Bobrynets (, ; ; ) is a city in Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Bobrynets urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: History In 1767, the colonel of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Andr ...

, one of the

hromada In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...

s of Ukraine. Population:

History

In 1767, the colonel of the

Zaporozhian Cossacks The Zaporozhian Cossacks (in Latin ''Cossacorum Zaporoviensis''), also known as the Zaporozhian Cossack Army or the Zaporozhian Host (), were Cossacks who lived beyond (that is, downstream from) the Dnieper Rapids. Along with Registered Cossa ...

, Andrii Keynash, reported to the Kish (Ukrainian Cossack administration) that the settlement of Bobrynets was founded near the Sugoklia River. According to the document of 1777, Vasyl Ostrovsky, a former Zaporozhian Cossack, was the capacious head.Яворницкий Д. І. Исторія запорозьких козаків, у трьох томах. — К.: Наук. думка, 1991. — Т. 3.// Глава Пятнадцатая, стр. 328., з посиланням на архів МЗС, малоросійські справи, 1710 р. №3 In 1816, 1910 people lived in the city. Settlement in the

Yelisavetgradsky Uyezd The Elisavetgrad uezd was a county (''uezd'') of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire, with its administrative center in Yelisavetgrad (modern Kropyvnytskyi). It bordered the Zvenigorodka and Chigirin uezds of the Kiev Governorate to the ...

of the

Kherson Governorate Kherson Governorate, known until 1803 as Nikolayev Governorate, was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Kherson. It encompassed in area and had a population of 2,733,612 inhabitants. At t ...

of the

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. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population of the town was 3,500 inhabitants. During the Russian civil war (1918–1920), 160 Jews were killed during

pogroms A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe late 19th- and early 20th-century attacks on Jews i ...

. During the

Holodomor The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a mass famine in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–193 ...

in 1932–1933, at least 146 residents of the city died. Many left the city before the Germans occupied the area. In 1941, Jews were kept prisoners in a

ghetto A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other ...

. At the beginning of 1942, 358 Jews were murdered in mass executions perpetrated in the nearby forest. In 1968, the population was 11 600 people. In 1989, the population was 12 869 people. In 2000, the parishioners of St. Nicholas Church joined the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate. In 2013, the population was 10 991 people. Until 18 July 2020, Bobrynets was the administrative center of

Bobrynets Raion Bobrynetskyi Raion () was a raion (district) of the Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. It covered an area of 1496 square kilometres. The administrative center of the raion was the city of Bobrynets. The raion was established in 1939. The raion ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kirovohrad Oblast to four. The area of Bobrynets Raion was merged into Kropyvnytskyi Raion.

Geography

Climate

Gallery

Вознесенська_церква._Бобринець.JPG, Ascension Church Парк в Бобринце.JPG, Nature park Земський банк Бобринець 783.JPG, Administrative building Улицы Бобринца.JPG, Bobrynets in Winter Музей в Бобринце.JPG, City museum Синагога Бобринець.jpg, Synagogue

References

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