| Kirovograd is the capital of Kirovograd region | | | | and rare metals may be discovered as well. |
| (oblast). Kirovograd oblast was formed in its | | | | The Kirovograd region is known since long ago as |
| contemporary borders in 1939. Its territory is | | | | a region with well-developed agricultural production. |
| 24,600 sq. km which makes 4.1% of the total | | | | The natural-climatic conditions and rich black soils |
| territory of Ukraine, with the population of | | | | (chernozems) are favorable for growing |
| 1,168,500 people, which is 2.4% of that in Ukraine. | | | | agricultural crops. A set of organizational, |
| The average population density is 48 persons/sq. | | | | agro-forest-reclamation, hydro technical and other |
| km, against 83 persons/sq. km in the country as | | | | measures have been taken with the purpose of |
| a whole. The oblast includes 21 administrative | | | | rational use of the land resources. |
| rayons, 12 towns, 4 of them being those of | | | | The oblast is favorably located geographically and |
| regional subordination, 26 urban-type settlements | | | | has a developed transportation network. |
| and 1024 rural-type settlements. The urban | | | | The Kirovograd region is crossed by main |
| population makes 61,2% of its total number in the | | | | railroads for transportation in the |
| region, against 67,9% in Ukraine. Above 30 ethnic | | | | Donbas-Carpathians direction linking the important |
| groups are represented in the oblast: Ukrainians | | | | industrial and agricultural regions of the South with |
| 85.3%, Russians 11.7%, and others. | | | | the South-West and the Center of Ukraine. The |
| The Kirovograd region is situated in the center of | | | | transport network includes 926 km of railways. |
| Ukraine, in the Dnieper and the Southern Buh | | | | The network density is 38 km per 1000 sq. km. |
| interfluves. A marker of the geographical center | | | | The Kirovograd region has 10 highways 728.7 km |
| of Ukraine was put in the Dobrovelychkivka | | | | long in convenient directions, which link Ukraine |
| rayon. | | | | with the countries of the CIS and Central and |
| The settlement of the region started in the age | | | | Southern Europe. The motor roads density is |
| of paleolith. In the second half of the 15th century | | | | 308.5 km per 1000 sq. km. |
| these territories were a part of the lands where | | | | The Kirovograd airport corresponds to the 3rd |
| the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks appeared. Later, for | | | | category of ICAO. Transportation by air is |
| nearly three centuries these lands were a part of | | | | performed by the state air carrier "Ukrainian |
| the "Volnist (the Territory) of Zaporizhzhya | | | | Airlines". There are two commercial air carriers: |
| Army". It was here that the Cossacks worked | | | | "URGA" and "Chaika", working on international air |
| and fought. | | | | lines. |
| The first battle of the Liberation War of the | | | | The Kirovograd inhabitants were among the first |
| Ukrainian people of 1648-1654 near Zhovty Vody | | | | telephone subscribers in Ukraine who could |
| took place on the territory of the contemporary | | | | communicate with the whole world. Automatic |
| Kirovograd oblast. In mid-1700s an intensive | | | | trunk-exchange 5 ESS ("Utel") for long-distance |
| Russian colonization of the Ukrainian lands began. | | | | calls was put in operation in 1994. A new kind of |
| In 1952, New Serbia was founded, and in 1754 | | | | communications services - cellular or mobile |
| the Fortress of St. Elizabeth was founded which | | | | telephone communications - was introduced in |
| later turned into the town of Elisavetgrad (now | | | | May 1996. |
| Kirovograd) – an uyezd (rayon) central town | | | | The list of Ukraine Airway Companies: Ukraine |
| in Kherson guberniya (province). | | | | International Airlines, Volare Airways, Air Travel, |
| The temperate warm climate, the availability of | | | | Lvov Airways, Niclolayev Airways, Crimea |
| deposits of radon and mineral waters (reserves | | | | Airways, Aerostar, Donbas Airways, Aerosvit, |
| of about 150,000 cu. m /year), forest areas, | | | | Ukrainian Cargo Airways, Ukrcopter Airways. |
| meadows, and rivers create favorable conditions | | | | The list of Ukraine Airports: Berdyansk Airport, |
| for organization of short- and long-term recreation | | | | Borispol International Airport (Kiev), Vinnitsa |
| as well as a network of resort-therapeutically | | | | Airport, Dnepropetrovsk Airport, Donetsk Airport, |
| establishments. | | | | Zaporozhzhye Airport, Ivano-Frankovsk Airport, |
| The oblast’s position in the center of the | | | | Izmail Airport, Kerch Airport, Zulyany Airport |
| Ukrainian crystalline massif determines the origin | | | | (Kiev), Kirovograd Airport, Kramatorsk Airport, |
| of large deposits of rare metals. The availability of | | | | Kryvyy Rih Airport, Lugansk Airport, Lvov |
| a whole series of ores manifestations: tungsten, | | | | Airport, Mariupol Airport, Nikolayev International |
| copper, molybdenum, apatite, uranium, gold and | | | | Airport, Odessa International Airport, Poltava |
| silver, bismuth, tin, lead, beryllium, antimony, | | | | Airport, Rovno Airport, Severdonoetsk Airport, |
| tantalum and niobium, is the characteristic feature | | | | Simferopol International Airport, Sumy Airport, |
| of the Kirovograd metallogenic zone. | | | | Ternopol Airport, Uzgorod Airport, Kharkov |
| The mineral and raw material potential of the | | | | Airport, Kherson Airport, Cherkassy Airport, |
| region includes above 340 deposits of minerals, | | | | Chernovtsy Airport, Chernigov Airport |
| 107 of them being developed. These are: brown | | | | The list of the main Ukraine bus and railway |
| coal, ore raw materials, raw materials for nuclear | | | | directions: Lugansk, Donetsk, Sumy, Nikolayev, |
| power industry (uranium), non-ore minerals. | | | | Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Kerch, Zaporozhe, |
| The main amount of minerals is excavated from | | | | Kherson, Kirovograd, Cherkassy, Kiev, Chernigov, |
| open mines which creates favorable conditions for | | | | Odessa, Vinnitsa, Zhitomir, Chernovtsy, |
| development of the mining sector in the region. | | | | Khmelnitsky, Rovno, Ivano - Frankovsk, Ternopol, |
| The gold ore deposits, discovered in the recent | | | | Lutsk, Lvov, Uzhgorod, Melitopol. Crimea: |
| decades, are the basis for the future creation of | | | | Simferopol, Sevastopol, Sudak, Evpatoria, |
| gold mining and gold-processing sector in the | | | | Feodosia, Yalta, Bakhchisarai, Alupka, Alushta, |
| region. According to geologists’ opinion, the | | | | Jankoi, Kharkov. |
| deposits of platinum, diamonds, chrome, tungsten | | | | |