Onufriivka is an urban-type settlement in Oleksandriia Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Onufriivka settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: .
History
The oldest traces of human existence in the Onufriivka Raion date back to the Neolithic era.
Name
The toponym Onufriivka comes from the surname of the founder. In addition to the name Onufriivka, its modifications were adopted in different periods, in particular "Onokhreevka", "Anofreevka", "Onopryivka".
Foundation
The first documentary mention of the farm (khutir) of a retired Cossack Vasyl Onufrienko dated 1741 in describing Dnipro possessions of Potoky sotnia of Myrhorod Polk (regiment)Vasyl Onofrey showed that he has a farm on the other side of the Dnipro, on the tract of the Omelnychok river, with hayfields and a plowed field that belonged to it, and a mill and pound on the same river, occupied by him, Onofrey, more than ten years ago..
Later, the farm of the Cossack Onufrienko was mentioned in 1744 in the description of the settlements of the Myrhorod Polk by their owners, in the 1745 description of Daniel de Bosquet, and present on the map of the same author, which was an addition to the description.
Not only the Cossack Onufrienko farm was located on the territory of modern Onufriivka. For example, local historians managed to find the location of Omelian Rozsokha farm, which consisted of "two houses, a dam, a pound, a mill, hay meadows and arable field and an apiary near the Mohyluvata gully". It was located opposite the beam of the Mohyluvata river - the outskirts of Onufriivka, at the end of the Poshtova street. The remains of the dam still remain at this place. In addition to the Rozsokha farm, the researchers managed to establish the approximate location of the Cossack Onufrienko farm at the confluence of Omelnychok and Sukhyi Omelnyk rivers, the farms of the Cossack Andrii Shevchenko and Hrytsko Khystyshyn. Over time these farms merged into one settlement and later existed under one name.
New Serbia (1752—1764) In 1752, with the establishment of military settlements, Onufriivka became part of New Serbia and became the property of Jovan Horvat-Otkurtich. This is confirmed by the 1758 information about persons who moved to housing in the settlements of New Serbia and the Novoslobidsky Cossack Polk, which states that from the Kremenchuk sotnia: «Mykova Koval; Matviy Shapoval – to the newly settled by his High Excellency Mr. Lieutenant General Horvath settlement, nicknamed Onufreevka» moved
Novorossiya Governorate and Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty (1764—1802) As of 1774, Onufriivka was in state ownership, as evidenced by J. Gindelstaedt in his story about the journey of the Yelysavethrad province: from the Zybkoe settlement we drove 10 versts straight to N, to the Onokhreevka settlement, a state-owned village of 100 families; all inhabitants are Little Russians (Ukrainians) who came here from both sides of the Dnipro. There is a church in the village, lying on the northern side of the Omelnyk Keleberdiansky river, near the mouth of the Sukhyi Omelnyk. This church was named after St. Spyrydon as of 1776 and had 50 parish yards.
Since Kremenchuk was the center of the Novorossiya Governorate, the lands around it were a tasty morsel for many noblemen. Onufriivka was no exception. After 1776, it lost the status of the state-owned village and passed into the ownership of Captain Ivan I. Komburley (Konburley), who was a clerk of the Kremenchuk border customs in 1774-1775. The Ivano-Predtechanska Church was built at his expense, in which he was buried together with his wife Feodosia.
The memoirs of Gilbert Romm and Mikhail Zagryazhsky confirm and supplement the information about Onufriivka of that period. In particular, Romm during a trip to the Crimea in 1786 noted:"…18 versts from Kryukiv there is the village of Onufriivka, which belongs to a private owner, has about 90 houses. A small river Omelnyk flows near it"
In turn, Mikhail Zagryazhsky in his "Notes…" as of 1791 mentioned:"...Near Kremenchuk I stopped by a former brother in arms, Lieutenant Turunzhe, at whom, because of the need to often be in Kremenchuk, I stopped for several days. We went with him to his neighbor, P. Konburley, who also served with me in the Kharkiv regiment, and his brother - Mikhail Ivanovich on the occasion - ... the village is called Anofreevka, 1000 souls with a significant amount of land are inseparable from his brother ... He lived splendidly at that time and region. He was very happy. He showed all his establishment, beautiful horses and so on..."