More than a thousand of residents of Kirovograd held a rally near the building of the municipal council in late December, protesting that the city could be renamed Ingulsk. The proposal to rename Kirovograd as Ingulsk was supported by a parliamentary committee on the building of a state and local self-government.
Participants in the rally demanded that the city be renamed Yelisavetgrad. “Putin!” they chanted at the rally.
Let’s journey back in time to June 18, 1754. The earthen fortress Fort St. Elizabeth had been founded in Ukraine, or Malorossia (Little Russia). The fortress grew into the city of Yelisavetgrad named in honor of its formal founder, Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, and also in honor of her heavenly patroness, St. Elizabeth. Elizabeth Petrovna is the daughter of Russian Czar Peter I called Peter the Great.
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