Kropyvnytskyi is a city in central Ukraine on the Inhul river, and is the administrative center of the Kirovohrad Oblast. Population: 232 052 . Between 1939 and 2016 it was called Kirovohrad after the First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party Sergei Kirov. Earlier names included Yelisavetgrad and Zinovyevsk . The city is the birthplace of noted figures such as Grigory Zinoviev, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Arseny Tarkovsky, African Spir and others.
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