Holovanivs'k () is an
urban-type settlement and the administrative center of
Holovanivsk Raion
Holovanivsk Raion is a raion (district) of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the urban-type settlement of Holovanivsk. Its population is
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukra ...
in the west of
Kirovohrad Oblast,
Ukraine. It hosts the administration of
Holovanivs'k settlement hromada, one of the
hromada
A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...
s of Ukraine.
Population:
History
It was a village in the
Baltsky Uyezd of the
Podolian Governorate
The Podolia Governorate or Podillia Governorate (), set up after the Second Partition of Poland, was a governorate (''gubernia'', ''province'', or ''government'') of the Russian Empire from 1793 to 1917, of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1 ...
of the
Russian Empire.
A local newspaper is published here since March 1932.
The village was a
shtetl home to thousands of Jews through the 1930s. Often targeted by pogroms, Jewish residents organized a self-defense militia after an incident on December 18, 1917, in which the Jewish stands of the town marketplace were looted and nine pogromists and civilians were killed in the ethnic violence that followed.
The Jewish self-defense unit was defeated by White Army forces commanded by
Yakov Slashchov on August 4, 1919 when Slashchov’s forces killed 200 Jews in Holovanivs'k as retaliation for the militia’s armed opposition. In February 1920, retreating White Army forces under
Anton Denikin killed 50 Jews at Holovanivs'k.
During
World War II the village was under Nazi German occupation, the Jewish population of the village largely exterminated in two major operations in late September 1941 and February 1942. The town was liberated the
Red Army on March 17, 1944. A local public garden on the grounds of the Museum of the History of Golovaniv District contains a mass grave of Jewish remains with a memorial inscribed: “The shooting place of residents of Holovanivs'k village.”
In January 1989 the population was 7066 people.
In January 2013 the population was 6133 people.
Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2013 року. Державна служба статистики України. Київ, 2013. стор.71
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References
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Urban-type settlements in Holovanivsk Raion
Cities of district significance in Ukraine
Baltsky Uyezd