Alt Danzig

Krupske (Ukrainian Крупське; Russian Крупское / Krupskoje; former German name "Alt - Danzig" ) is a village in central Ukraine with about 700 inhabitants and is the administrative center of the district municipality of the same.

Geography

Krupske located in the center of the oblast in the Kirovohrad Kirovohrad Rajon south of the highway about 15 km southwest of Oblasthauptstadt Kirovohrad. The village is situated on the banks of Suhoklija ( Сугоклія ), a 44 km long tributary of the Inhul.

At the district municipality next Krupske count the villages Hannynske ( Ганнинське ) and Darjiwka ( Дар'ївка ).

History

Catherine the Great of Russia wanted to stabilize the border regions of the Russian Empire with the help of an agricultural population. The immigration agent George Trappe recruited the first 50 families from the Gdansk area and led them first by ship to Riga and then with the car on to the south of Kremenchug. Here we parted from 29 families and moved to Jelisawetgrad (present-day Kirovohrad ). In 1787 they founded about 15 km southwest of the city on the land granted by Prince Potemkin, the Protestant colony "Alt - Danzig " (Russian Anienskaja / Annenskaja ).

Of the 29 families, but only 19 remained in the village. After 1803 10 more families came from the district Buetow in Pomerania, whose knowledge in agriculture proved to be useful for the village. In 1841 several families came from Munich, followed by seven further from Rohrbach in 1842.

Originally called "Alt - Danzig" only "Danzig ", but after a daughter colony of several Danziger villagers on Inhul was founded 35 km away from Mykolaiv removed, the older village was renamed " Alt- Danzig" and the newer village " New Danzig" mentioned. Later the village was in Karliwka ( Карлівка ) and finally renamed in honor of the wife of Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya in Krupske.