Kirovohrad. The city was founded on the lands of the Zaporozhian
Sich in the mid-18th c. as the fortress of St. Elizabeth for the protection of
the southern borders of the Russian Empire from the invasions of the Turks and
Crimean Tatars. Soon a settlement appeared around the fortress and in 1775 it
got the name of Yelisavetgrad. The barracks of the Yelisavetgrad Fortress (1754)
have remained to this day, as well as architectural monuments of the 19th c.:
the Greek and the Intercession Churches.
The fortress and town are associated with the activities of military leaders A.
Suvorov and M. Kutuzov. In the military hospital quartered in the fortress
(1787-1797) the surgical school worked, one of the first establishments of
higher medical education in Ukraine. During the Crimean War (1853-1856) a
military hospital functioned in the fortress, where worked N. Pirogov, an
outstanding surgeon and anatomist, founder of the field surgery. Famous actors
and stage directors P. Saksahans'kyi and M. Sadovs'kyi and writer Y. Yanovs'kyi
studied at the former professional college.
Onufriivka. The Onufriivka Dendrological Park in the outskirts of
the village was created in the latter half of the 19th c. by serfs of the local
landowner Count M. Tolstoy. This picturesque corner of Ukraine is now a monument
of landscape gardening.
Rozumivka. Once there was the estate of General N. Raevsky, hero
of the 1812 Patriotic War. The family burial vault of the Raevskys has been
preserved in the village.
Veseli Bokoven'ki. The Veseli Bokoven'ki Dendrological Park lies
at the outskirts of the village. This adornment of the steppe land, a monument
of landscape gardening, was laid out by a great nature fancier and expert M.
Davydov in 1893.
Oblast farmsteads