Novomyrhorod is a city

City

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 in the Kirovohrad Oblast

Kirovohrad Oblast

Kirovohrad Oblast is an oblast of Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Kirovohrad.-Geography:The area of the province is , its population is 1.1 million....

 (province

Oblast

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) of central Ukraine

Ukraine

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, in the southern part of the Middle Dnieper area. It is the administrative center

Capital City

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 of the Novomyrhorodskyi Raion

Novomyrhorodskyi Raion

Novomyrhorodskyi Raion is a raion of the Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Novomyrhorod....

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Novomyrhorod is situated on the banks of the River Velyka Vys. The population as of the 2005 estimate was about 12 528 inhabitants.

History

The first mention of the city dates from the 1740.

Between 1752 and 1764, Novomyrhorod was the capital of New Serbia

Nova Serbia

New Serbia was a territory of Imperial Russia from 1752 to 1764. It was mostly located in the territory of present-day Kirovohrad Oblast of Ukraine, although some of its parts were located in the territory of present-day Cherkasy Oblast, Poltava Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast...

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Since 1923 Novomyrhorod was the district center of Yelysavethradsky District. From 1959, the town has a regional subordination.

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 26 July 2001, the town Novomyrhorod listed under Historic Settlements of Ukraine. In 2010, was its 270-year anniversary.