Znamianka ( uk, Зна́м'янка) is a town in Kropyvnytskyi Raion,

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. It hosts the administration of Znamianka urban hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population: . It is located about half way between the regional center Kropyvnytskyi (west), and cities of

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(east) and

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(north).

History

Znamianka was established in 1869 when there started train movement between Kharkiv and Odessa in area that historically was known as Black Forest (or Nigra Sylva).(Знам’янка, Знам’янський район, Кіровоградська область)

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(ukrssr.com.ua). At the meadow of Black Forest, through which stretched a segment of Yelizavetgrad – Kriukov (west–east), there was built the train station main building and its offices. The station was named after the original village Znamianka that was located away and today is known as Znamianka Druha. To the area were resettled peasants from the

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area, possible the Russian

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for whom the Our Lady of the Sign sacred. In Russian the Sign means Znamiennie, so in diminutive form the settlement's name became Znamianka. In 1873 there was opened movement of trains on the segment Znamianka – Mykolaiv, in 1876 towards Fastiv. Out of a small train station Znamianka started to transform into a rail hub. Znamianka became a train station at four-way crossroads northeast towards

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, south towards Mykolaiv, west towards

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and northwest towards Fastiv. Simultaneously with building of the train station on a land lot that was rent out from landowners Osipovs by people from neighboring villages and other counties (uyezds), there appeared a small settlement of railway workers, Osipovoye. In 1886 there already were 24 private houses, an

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, six trading places and population of 143. Couple of dozens years later just south of the train station there appeared another settlement of Linitskoye. In 1913 in both Osipovoye and Linitskoye lived about 6,000 people. In the beginning for sometime the train station was classified of the third category with its locomotive depot accounting for 4 locomotives. In December 1883 when there ended construction of the new train station building, there were 29 locomotives and the depot employed some 92 workers. In the 1890s the rail hub was shipping out some 580,000 poods of bread annually. During the 1917 to 1921 Ukrainian War of Independence Znamianka was part of the

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Znamianka was under German occupation from August 5, 1941 to December 9, 1943. In January 1989 the population was 33 828 people. In 2012, based on the law "On the principles of the State language policy", City Council declared Znamianka's regional language to be Russian. On 28 February 2018 the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled this law unconstitutional. In January 2013 the population was 23 983 people. There is a memorial to the soldiers of the

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, who liberated the town from the Germans. It takes the form of a tank mounted on a plinth. Until 18 July 2020, Znamianka was designated as a city of oblast significance and belonged to Znamianka Municipality but not to Znamianka Raion even though it was the center of the raion. Znamianka Municipality combined the city of Znamianka, the urban-tye settlement of

Znamianka Druha Znamianka Druha ( uk, Знам'янка Друга; russian: Знаменка Вторая) is an urban-type settlement in Kropyvnytskyi Raion of Kirovohrad Oblast in Ukraine. It is located immediately west of the city of Znamianka. Znamianka Dr ...

, and the village of Vodyane. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kirovohrad Oblast to four, Znamianka Municipality was merged into Kropyvnytskyi Raion.

Climate

Gallery

Image:photo 320.jpg, Znamianka railway station Image:photo 319.jpg, Historical train next to railway station File:Залізничний вокзал у Знам'янці.jpg, Platform of railway station File:Znamenka Ukraine downtown area.jpg, Downtown Znamianka File:ZnamiankaNL2001.png, Native language by the 2001 census (Ukrainian in yellow) File:Залiзнична станцiя Знам'янка 4207131.jpeg,

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in Znamianka

References

External links

* Volodymyr Panchenko.
In the arms of the Black Forest (В обіймах Чорного лісу)
'.

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