19 Sights in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine (with Map and Images)

The Ilyushin Il-28 is a jet bomber of the immediate postwar period that was originally manufactured for the Soviet Air Forces. It was the Soviet Union's first such aircraft to enter large-scale production. It was also licence-built in China as the Harbin H-5. Total production in the USSR was 6,316 aircraft, and over 319 H-5s were built. Only 187 examples of the HJ-5 training variant were manufactured. In the 1990s hundreds remained in service with various air forces over 50 years after the Il-28 first appeared. The only H-5s in service currently are approximately 80 aircraft which operate with the Korean People's Air Force. The Il-28 has the USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 27" and NATO reporting name "Beagle", while the Il-28U trainer variant has the USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 30" and NATO reporting name Mascot.

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Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi was a Ukrainian military commander and Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648–1654) that resulted in the creation of an independent Ukrainian Cossack state. In 1654, he concluded the Treaty of Pereyaslav with the Russian Tsar and allied the Cossack Hetmanate with Tsardom of Russia, thus placing central Ukraine under Russian protection. During the uprising the Cossacks led a massacre of thousands of Jewish people during 1648–1649 as one of the more traumatic events in the history of the Jews in Ukraine and Ukrainian Nationalism.

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Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov was a Russian scientist, medical doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847), one of the most widely recognized Russian physicians. Considered to be the founder of field surgery, he was the first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation (1847) and one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic. He is credited with invention of various kinds of surgical operations and developing his own technique of using plaster casts to treat fractured bones.

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Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk was the first astronaut of independent Ukraine who flew into outer space. He flew on NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87. Kadenyuk held the rank of major general in the Ukrainian Air Force. He was Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th convocation, People's Ambassador of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine, President of the Aerospace Society of Ukraine, Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine and Chairman of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Honorary Doctor of Chernivtsi National University.

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Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar, was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language, though this is different from the language of his poems. He also wrote some works in Russian. Shevchenko is also known for his many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.

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The Ilyushin Il-76 is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau. It was first planned as a commercial freighter in 1967, as a replacement for the Antonov An-12. It was designed to deliver heavy machinery to remote, poorly served areas. Military versions of the Il-76 have been widely used in Europe, Asia and Africa, including use as an aerial refueling tanker or command center.

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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Its nicknames include: "balalaika", because its planform resembles the stringed musical instrument of the same name; "Ołówek", Polish for "pencil", due to the shape of its fuselage, and "Én Bạc", meaning "silver swallow", in Vietnamese.

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Heinrich Gustav Neuhaus was a Russian-born pianist and teacher. Part of a musical dynasty, he grew up in a Polish-speaking household. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1922 to 1964. He was made a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1956. His piano textbook The Art of Piano Playing (1958) is regarded as one of the most authoritative and widely used approaches to the subject.

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The Let L-410 Turbolet is a twin-engine short-range transport aircraft, manufactured by the Czech aircraft manufacturer Let Kunovice, often used as an airliner. The aircraft is capable of landing on short and unpaved runways and operating under extreme conditions from −50 to +50 °C. By 2016, 1,200 L-410s had been built, and over 350 are in service in more than 50 countries.

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The O. O. Osmyorkin Memorial Museum of Art is a memorial museum dedicated to the life and work of the Russian and Ukrainian painter Alexander Alexandrovich Osmyorkin, as well as an art gallery, a collection of paintings by the artist and his students from different post-Soviet countries.

Wikipedia: Художньо-меморіальний музей О. О. Осмьоркіна (UK), Website

A "literary memorial museum" and. Kapenka-Kabinka "(officially known as the public utility" Kapenkabin Kabinka City Urticaria Literature Memorial Museum "), which introduces the life and creation of Iberia Kapenkabin Kabinka, an outstanding figure in Ukrainian professional theatre.

Wikipedia: Кіровоградський міський літературно-меморіальний музей І. К. Карпенка-Карого (UK)

The GAZ-MM is a medium-duty truck produced at the Gorki Auto Plant from 1938 to 1948, and then at the Ulyanovsky Auto Plant, up to 1956. The truck was a modernized variant of the GAZ-AA truck, but using the engine from the GAZ-M1, upgrading the vehicle's power to 50 hp.

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Mark Lukych Kropyvnytskii, commonly known as Marko Kropyvnytskyi, was a Ukrainian writer, dramaturge, composer, theatre actor and director. Over his career Kropyvnytskyi wrote 40 plays, played in over 500 roles of various repertoire, as well as wrote several songs.

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Kropyvnytskyi Great Choral Synagogue is a Jewish religious building-synagogue in the city of Kropyvnytskyi; a majestic city historical and architectural monument in an eclectic style; now a significant urban center of Jewish culture, religion, and philanthropy.

Wikipedia: Велика хоральна синагога (Кропивницький) (UK)

Internationalist fighters are commemorated at the Nettle Monument in the regional center of Nettle City, commemorating the fighters of many nations who participated, often sacrificing their lives in 19th century wars.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Воїнам-інтернаціоналістам (Кіровоград) (UK)

The Yakovlev Yak-40 is a regional jet designed by Yakovlev. The trijet's maiden flight was in 1966, and it was in production from 1967 to 1981. Introduced in September 1968, the Yak-40 has been exported since 1970.

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A passionate academic field, Ukrainian Academy of Music and Drama. l. The Nettle Area Musical Theatre in Nettle Town, the first professional Ukrainian theatre, is the main theatre stage in the Kirovograd area.

Wikipedia: Кіровоградський академічний український музично-драматичний театр ім. М. Л. Кропивницького (UK)

The Antonov An-24 is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau and manufactured by Kyiv, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude Aviation Factories.

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Kropyvnytskyi tram was an electric tram system operating in the city of Kropyvnytskyi. Historically, the fourth city tram network of the Russian Empire after the Kiev, Nizhny Novgorod and Dnieper trams.

Wikipedia: Кіровоградський трамвай (UK)