Novogeorgievsk was a city in Ukraine that since 1961 has been flooded by the

Kremenchuk Reservoir The Kremenchuk Reservoir ( uk, Кременчуцьке водосховище, ) is the largest water reservoir located on the Dnieper River. Named for the city of Kremenchuk, it covers a total area of 2,250 square kilometres in the territories ...

History

The city was established during the

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...

colonization of new territories that the Crown of Poland received after the

Union of Lublin The Union of Lublin ( pl, Unia lubelska; lt, Liublino unija) was signed on 1 July 1569 in Lublin, Poland, and created a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest countries in Europe at the time. It replaced the per ...

in 1615 as ''Krylow'' ( pl, Kryłów), part of the ''Korsun starosta''. The settlement was established on the right bank of

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near

Tiasmyn river The Tiasmyn () is a right tributary of the Dnieper River in Ukraine. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .Тясмин

. Some historical facts state that the residents of the city in 1616 accounted for 200 courts and implying of population of some 1200 people. At that time the settlement received the

Magdeburg rights Magdeburg rights (german: Magdeburger Recht; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within ...

. It also received a status of sloboda which excused the city of a land tax for the next 30 years. The by court registration of the city in 1631 accounted for 50 ''settled houses'' and 200 estates. During the Cossack uprisings in the mid 17th century the city suffered from the numerous attacks. Since the partition of Poland, the city was transferred to the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

. In 1795 became the city of Aleksandria,

. Several years prior to that in the city was based the ''Myrhorod Regiment'' and in 1741 the city accounted for 400 courts with 2000 population. In 1752-1764 was one of the two major cities of the '' New Serbia'' and housed one company of the ''Pandury Regiment''. In 1808 the city accounted only for some 45 courts with 550 residents. In 1860 the city was renamed Novogeorgievsk. It was part of the Aleksandriya Uyezd of

Kherson Governorate The Kherson Governorate (1802–1922; russian: Херсонская губерния, translit.: ''Khersonskaya guberniya''; uk, Херсонська губернія, translit=Khersonska huberniia), was an administrative territorial unit (als ...

. In 1894 the city accounted for 1634 courts (12653 residents) and 350 desiatinas of land. There were three Russian Orthodox churches, a synagogue, a church school, two middle schools, a hospital, eleven factories and other. During the

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

the city housed the ''Crimean Cavalry Regiment'' and the ''Eighth Reserve Cavalry Regiment'' of the

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. The city was one of the battlegrounds during the war and was protected by a citadel and an unfinished belt of forts. Evacuation of its inhabitants, however, came too late because the trains were deployed to evacuate Warsaw. An account cited that 85,000 prisoners were taken at Novogeorgievsk by the Germans. In 1959-1961 after the construction of the Kremenchuk HES the population of the city was evacuated to Svitlovodsk as its territory has been flooded. The city was part of the territory, which included 9,900 homesteads, that was destroyed because of the reservoir. Some parts of the city that stayed on the higher lands were preserved and transformed into the village of Nahirne (today in

Oleksandriia Raion Oleksandriia Raion is a raion (district) of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Oleksandriia, which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the rai ...

Notable residents

*The Russian opera singer Mikhail Shuisky was born in Novogeorgievsk in 1883.Porozov, Vladimir
"Шуйский, Михаил Григорьевич"
Encyclopedia (permculture.ru). Retrieved 24 September 2013 .

References

Sources

* Lavrentiy Pokhilevich. "Tales of the Kiev Governorate settlements".

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...

, 1864

External links

Heraldry of Novogeorgievsk

«Подорож вулицями втраченого міста». Virtual exhibition on the site of the Kirovohrad Oblast Library
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