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The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian SSR on January 10, 1939 out of the northern raions of Mykolaiv Oblast. Before establishment, its territory was part of Kherson Governorate (most of it) and Podolia Governorate (smaller portion) until 1925.
Upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Ukrainian SSR emerged as the present-day independent state of Ukraine, although the modified Soviet-era constitution remained in use until the adoption of the modern Ukrainian constitution in June 1996.
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The raion system proved very difficult to administer wholly, and on February 27, 1932, they were grouped into five oblasts, though Moldovan ASSR was kept: 1. Vinnytsia Oblast 2. Odessa Oblast 3. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 4. Kharkiv Oblast 5. Kyiv Oblast The latter three were soon partitioned in the same year to create the following two oblasts: 1. Done...
After the Soviet invasion of Poland and the resulting annexation of its eastern half by the Soviet Union. The territorial administration was somewhat preserved converting Polish voivodeships into Soviet oblasts. Thus, six new oblasts were established in Western Ukraineon 4 December 1939: 1. Volyn Oblast (with its centre in Lutsk, western part of Wo...
As the Red Army liberated Ukraine throughout 1943/1944, several changes were made, including the complete reinstatement of the pre-World War IIoblasts. On 29 March 1944 the city of Chernivitsi was renamed to Chernivtsi, as was the oblast. In a similar fashion, Tarnopil became Ternopil on 15 April 1944. The liberation left a German-occupied zone in ...
After the war ended, the Carpathian Ruthenia province of Czechoslovakiawas passed to the USSR and on 21 January 1946, the territory was annexed to Ukraine as the 1. Zakarpattia Oblast During the post-war rebuilding the administrative division remained stable. However the political aftermath following death of Stalinin 1953 brought a number of re-or...
Kirovohrad, city, south-central Ukraine. 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.
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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.
Jun 14, 2014 · The situation of Kirovograd illustrates the complexity of Ukraine’s linguistic and cultural divisions and demonstrates that any effort to simply divide Ukraine into two even halves would be extremely difficult, problematic, and dangerous.
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According to official doctrine, the Ukrainian SSR is a sovereign state, federated on a footing of equality with Russia and the other fraternal Soviet republics. The theoretical sovereignty of the Ukraine finds an expression in her membership in the United Nations and the constitu-tional right of secession from the Union. A Soviet Ukrainian legal
