Pomichna (, ) is a city 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 ...

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. It hosts the administration of Pomichna urban hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population:

History

In 1775, after the liquidation of

Zaporozhian Sich The Zaporozhian Sich (, , ; also ) was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Zaporozhian Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries, for the latter part of that period as an autonomous stratocratic state within the Cossa ...

, the

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, leaving the Cossack winter quarters, settled in the slobodas, turning into peasants. One of these slobodas was located in the modern city of Pomichna. The

fortress of St. Elizabeth The Fortress of St. Elizabeth (, also known locally as "earthworks") is a 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. It is unique in that the ...

(in modern-day

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 ...

) was garrisoned by

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 ...

, and the village of Pomichna provided the garrison with food, thereby providing help (, ), hence the name of the settlement "Pomichna". Pomichna was formerly in 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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. During

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, the settlement was occupied by German troops. On March 18, 1944, Pomichna was liberated from the

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occupiers by the troops of the

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. On May 14, 1967, by the Decree of the Presidium of the

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, Pomichna received the status of a city. In 1989, population was 12,322 people. In 2013, population was 9,210 people. Until 18 July 2020, Pomichna belonged to Dobrovelychkivka 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 Dobrovelychkivka Raion was merged into Novoukrainka Raion.

Geography

Climate

Gallery

Музей-вагон Помічна.jpg, Locomotive-museum Гіперболоїдна вежа Помічна.jpg, Old water tower Гіперболоїдна вежа інженера Шухова Помічна.jpg, Interior of the old water tower

References

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