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Location of the Ukrainian SSR (yellow) within the Soviet Union in 1954–1991. In October 1964, Khrushchev was deposed by a joint Central Committee and Politburo plenum and succeeded by another collective leadership, this time led by Leonid Brezhnev, born in Ukraine, as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
Kirovohrad Oblast ( Ukrainian: Кіровоградська область, romanized :Kirovohradska oblast ), also known as Kirovohradshchyna ( Ukrainian: Кіровоградщина ), is an oblast (region) in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Kropyvnytskyi. Its population is 903,712 (2022 estimate). [2]
Itself part of the highly centralized Soviet Union, sub-national divisions in the Ukrainian SSR were subordinate to higher executive authorities and derived their power from them. Throughout the Ukrainian SSR's history, other national subdivisions were established in the republic, including guberniyas and okrugs , before finally being reorganized into their present structure as oblasts .
It lies along the upper Inhul River where the latter is crossed by the Kremenchuk-Odessa railway. Founded as a fortress in 1754, it was made a city, Yelysavethrad (Russian: Yelizavetgrad, or Elizavetgrad), in 1765 and developed as the centre of a rich agricultural area. It was renamed Zinovyevsk in 1924, Kirovo in 1936, and Kirovohrad in 1939.
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Feb 24, 2023 · In 1939, the city was named Kirovohrad, in honor of the Soviet party leader Serhii Kirov. This name was changed in 2016 in accordance with the decommunization laws. The city, which is the regional center, was renamed Kropyvnytskyi. The name of the region did not work out so easily, so it is currently called in the old way, Kirovohrad region.
the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a multiethnic, multicul-tural administrative-political construction more similar to a minia-ture Soviet Union than to a Ukrainian nation-state.18 Soviet Ukraine became one of the most Sovietized and Russiñed among other Soviet republics. On the other hand, the Ukrainian SSR was among the most
The Ukrainian Soviet Republic (Russian: Украинская Советская Республика, romanized: Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Respublika; Ukrainian: Українська Радянська Республіка, romanized: Ukrainska Radianska Respublika) was a Soviet republic created by the Ukrainian Bolsheviks after the Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets declared independence ...
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