Zlatopil, Novomyrhorod

Zlatopil
Златопіль
City
Former gymnasium
Former gymnasium
Zlatopil is located in Ukraine Kirovohrad Oblast
Zlatopil
Zlatopil
Location within Ukraine Kirovohrad Oblast
Zlatopil is located in Ukraine
Zlatopil
Zlatopil
Location within Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°48′50″N 31°39′01″E / 48.81389°N 31.65028°E / 48.81389; 31.65028
CountryUkraine
OblastKirovohrad Oblast
Massacre of the populationAugust 1941
Population
 (1926)
 • Total
6,300[a][1]

Zlatopil (Ukrainian: Златопіль) was a small city in Ukraine, located about 67[2] km northwest of Kropyvnytskyi.

History

Panorama from the mid-19th century

The name of this village before 1787 was Hulajpol.[3] During the partitions of Poland many residents of the town resettled near the Sea of Azov establishing another town of Huliaipole.[4] In the 19th century Zlatopol was the center of Zlatopol volost, Chigirinsky Uyezd, Kiev Governorate.[5] During the Ukrainian War of Independence, from 1917 to 1920, it passed between various factions. Afterwards it was administratively part of the Kremenchuk Governorate of Ukraine,[6][7] and after its dissolution of the Kyiv Governorate of Ukraine.[8] In 1923–1959 Zlatopil was an administrative center of Zlatopil Raion. Since 1959 it is part of Novomyrhorod city.

Before the Holocaust, Zlatopil was a prosperous Jewish shtetl. There was also a gymnasium (school) for rich people in Zlatopil. Some Jews of Zlatopil served in the Russian army during World War I and suffered under the pogroms of 1918–1920. Those who remained in Zlatopil were killed in August 1941. After World War II the Jews who survived in the Red Army returned to Zlatopil and buried the Jews of Zlatopil in a common grave in the old Jewish cemetery of Zlatopil. Today there are almost no Jews in Zlatopil.

Some of the most famous Jewish families of Zlatopil are: Brody, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, rabbis Elijah and Hillel Poisic, (the composer) Pokrass, and Zola.

Notable people

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Down from 9,600 in 1860

References

  1. ↑ Енциклопедія українознавства. Словникова частина (ЕУ-II). Vol. 3. 1994. pp. 830–833.
  2. ↑ Assuming that where Zlatopilska street is today (Meaning 'Of Zlatopil'), is where the village was.
  3. ↑ "Zlatopol". Archived from the original on 2018-04-21. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  4. ↑ Sklyarenko, Ye. Huliaipole (ГУЛЯЙПОЛЕ) Archived 2022-03-16 at the Wayback Machine. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2004
  5. ↑ "Историческая информация о городе Златополь". Archived from the original on 2022-04-06. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
  6. ↑ С. Хургін (1922). Адміністраційна Мапа Української Соц. Рад. Республіки (Map). 1:1,680,000 (in Ukrainian). Kharkiv: Народний комісаріат внутрішніх справ.
  7. ↑ С. Я. Хургин (1921). Карта Украинской Социалистической Советской Республики (Map). 1:1,680,000 (in Russian). Народный комиссариат внутренних дел.
  8. ↑ Административная карта Украины (Map). 1:1,050,000 (in Russian). Народный комиссариат внутренних дел. 1923.
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