Novomyrhorod (, ) is a
city
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in
Novoukrainka Raion
Novoukrainka Raion is a raion (district) of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is the town of Novoukrainka. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of ...
,
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 ...
, central
Ukraine
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, in the southern part of the Middle Dnieper area. It hosts the administration of
Novomyrhorod urban hromada, one of the
hromada
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s of Ukraine.
The population of Novomyrhorod is approximately
Novomyrhorod is situated on the banks of the
Velyka Vys
The Velyka Vys () is a river in Ukraine, a left tributary of the Syniukha, in the basin of the Southern Bug. It is long and its basin area is .Myrhorod
Myrhorod (, ) is a city in Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It serves as the Capital city, administrative center of Myrhorod Raion. Myrhorod also hosts the administration of Myrhorod urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It is locate ...
" or "new peace town".
Between 1752 and 1764, Novomyrhorod was the capital of
New Serbia, a military frontier established by the
Russian Empire
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that had an ethnic
Romanian
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majority.
Since 1802 it was a town in
Kherson Governorate
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of Russian Empire.
Since 1923 Novomyrhorod was the district center of Yelysavethradsky District,
Ukrainian SSR
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.
City since 1960.
[Новомиргород // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 2. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.41]
In 1989 the population was 16 349 people.
In 2013 population was 11 569 people.
Until 18 July 2020, Novomyrhorod was the administrative center of
Novomyrhorod 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 Novomyrhorod Raion was merged into Novoukrainka Raion.
Notable people
*
Stepan Kozhumyaka (1898–1989) — Ukrainian engineer, bridge-builder and linguist
*
Viacheslav Petrov (b. 1994) — Ukrainian professional basketball player.
Gallery
Image:New serbia slavo serbia.png, Location of Novomyrhorod and former New Serbia
Image:Новомиргородський вокзал.JPG, Novomyrhorod railway station
Image:Entering Novomyrhorod.jpg, Entering the Novomyrhorod from the direction of Kropyvnytskyi
Kropyvnytskyi (, ) is a city in central Ukraine, situated on the Inhul, Inhul River. It serves as the administrative center of Kirovohrad Oblast. Population:
Over its history, Kropyvnytskyi has changed its name several times. The settlement ...
See also
*
Zlatopol — former town, Jewish
shtetl
or ( ; , ; Grammatical number#Overview, pl. ''shtetelekh'') is a Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish populations which Eastern European Jewry, existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The t ...
, now it is a part of Novomyrhorod.
References
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Cities in Kirovohrad Oblast
Cities of district significance in Ukraine
Yelisavetgradsky Uyezd