Kirovohrad Oblast

Kirovohrad Oblast is an administrative region in central Ukraine, with Kropyvnytskyi as its capital. It was called Kirovohrad Oblast until 2016, when its capital was renamed.

Kropyvnytskyi: Kropyvnytskyi is a city in central Ukraine and the administrative center of Kirovohrad Oblast. The oblast's capital anchors its administration and gives the region its current official name.
Kirovohrad: Kirovohrad was the former name of Kropyvnytskyi, the capital of Kirovohrad Oblast. The city name supplied the oblast's former name until Ukraine's 2016 renaming.
Agriculture in Ukraine: Agriculture in Ukraine includes crop and livestock production across the country's varied regions. Fertile soils and a continental climate make farming central to the oblast's economy.
Cherkasy Oblast: Cherkasy Oblast is an administrative region in central Ukraine, west of the Dnieper. It borders Kirovohrad Oblast to the north and shares its central Ukrainian setting.
Central Ukraine: Central Ukraine is a broad geographic and cultural region in the central part of the country. Kirovohrad Oblast occupies part of Ukraine's central interior.
Kirovohrad Oblast (1939–2016): Kirovohrad Oblast was the Ukrainian administrative region bearing that name from 1939 until 2016. Its earlier names and boundaries explain how the present-day oblast acquired its identity.
Black soil: Black soil, or chernozem, is a dark, humus-rich soil known for high natural fertility. Chernozem underlies much of the oblast's productive farmland.
Poltava Oblast: Poltava Oblast is an administrative region in central-eastern Ukraine. It borders Kirovohrad Oblast to the northeast.
Oblast: An oblast is a first-level administrative division used in Ukraine and several other countries. This administrative unit defines the region's place in Ukraine's territorial system.
Ukrainian SSR: The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991. The oblast was established within the Soviet-era administrative system of Soviet Ukraine.

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