Zlatopol

Zlatopol (before 1787 - Gulyaypol) was a village located 1-2 kilometers from Novo Mirgorod. Members of the wealthy Brodskiy family, that had roots in Zlatopol, donated money for the construction and maintenance of a Jewish hospital, a poorhouse and a "gymnasium" (high school). In 1897 the town's 6,373 Jews comprised 78.5 percent of the total population. Over 150 Jews (one source gives the figure of 177, another – 153) Jews were killed in a pogrom carried out in early May 1919 by peasants from villages in the area. As a result of the pogrom and a famine three years later the Jewish population declined. In 1926 Zlatopol's 3,863 Jews comprised 61 per cent of the total population. A Yiddish school was established in the town. In 1939 Zlatopol became the county center of Kirovograd District. Its Jewish population of 1,047 comprised 26 percent of the total population. The town was occupied by German troops on August 1, 1941. In December a ghetto was set up on the site of an orphanage. The Jewish population of Zlatopol, together with some Jews deported from Novo Morgorod, was liquidated in a number of murder operations that extended from November 1941 until late September 1942. The victims were either gassed or shot to death. Zlatopol was liberated by the Red Army on March 11, 1944. In 1959, it became the part of Novo Mirgorod.