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Kirovohrad

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Kirovohrad (kē'rəvəhräd`), Rus. Kirovograd, city (1989 pop. 269,000), capital of Kirovohrad region, Ukraine, on the Inhul River. It is an agricultural trade center, with a large farm machinery plant. Other industries include food processing and the manufacture of agricultural machinery. Founded as a fortress in 1754, it was named Yelisavetgrad for Empress Elizabeth. Between 1881 and 1919 it was the scene of several pogroms. It was renamed Zinovievsk in 1924, Kirovo in 1936, and Kirovograd (Kirovohrad) in 1939.


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14) reports that the best teams will repeat an increasingly popular summer ritual and meet in June at Ukraine's only baseball stadium, a 900-seat facility in Kirovohrad, to choose a national champion.
In March 2007 vandals painted Nazi symbols on Holocaust memorials in Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, and Oleksandriya, Kirovohrad Oblast.
In response to requests from local Jewish organizations, the Kirovohrad municipal government banned construction on a Holocaust remembrance site.
 
 
 
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