Dobrovelychkivka (; russian: Добровели́чковка) is an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

Novoukrainka Raion Novoukrainka Raion is a raion (district) of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is the town of Novoukrainka. Population: . On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number o ...

Kirovohrad Oblast Kirovohrad Oblast ( uk, Кіровоградська область, translit=Kirovohradska oblast; also referred to as Kirovohradschyna — uk, Кіровоградщина) is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. The administrative center of the ...

, southern

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. Dobrovelychkivka hosts the administration of Dobrovelychkivka settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population of the settlement is Until 18 July 2020, Dobrovelychkivka was the administrative center of Dobrovelychkivka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kirovohrad Oblast to four. The area of Dobrovelychkivka Raion was merged into Novoukrainka Raion. It hosts a regional bazaar on Wednesday and Friday mornings, and is noted for being the purported geographical center of Ukraine.

History

Dobrovelychkivka was occupied by the Germans on 1 August 1941 during

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homes were soon registered and marked with

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. In late December 1941, all Jews from the town were taken to the village of Maryevka and shot to death. Dobrovelychkivka was liberated by the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

on 17 March 1944.‘’ https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622057-Dobrovelichkovka Untold Stories: Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR, Yad Vashem

References

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