Nova Praha - urban villages Alexander district of Kirovograd region. Distance from regional center is 50 km. Originally town was named Petrykivka. The name is derived from the Petrykivka wintering. There was a high tomb, which served as a signal post. In the early 50s Petrikovka settled Montenegrins, Serbs, Russian Old Believers. Since the XIX century in New Prague starting regularly to be fair, where local settlers sold salt fish, tar and bought corn and cattle. Today's Nova Praha in its history and had some ups and some downs. There was a time when Nova Praha by population dominated by neighboring Alexandria - then still a center of military settlements. According to the documents, while the population exceeded 12,600 people. The second half of the nineteenth century. Nova Praha becomes one of the points of hiring agricultural workers. Through it sent the crowd of workers in the northern counties of Mykolaiv.

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