Its basic element is a cartouche-decorated Spanish shield bearing the symbols found on the current flag of Kirovohrad and topped with a golden mural crown.

The shield follows the colours of the flag and is divided into three parts by a reversed dark blue pall, the first and the second fields being yellow and the third being crimson.

The big coat of arms of Kropyvnytskyi adds to this two supporters: silver storks set on the compartment made up of four wheat ears and a dark blue scroll with a motto in Ukrainian: "З миром і добром" (English "With peace and good").

Three dark blue bands are said to symbolize the junction of three rivers: Inhul, Suhokliya and Bianka in whose vicinity the precursor of the city, Fortress of St. Elizabeth was founded.

The new project had a red French shield with a yellow contour of the six-bastioned Fort of St. Elizabeth (now much simplified and more resembling a six-pointed mullet) and the escutcheon of the Kherson Province (to which Yelisavetgrad belonged) in the canton.

The shield was topped with a silver mural crown and surrounded by two golden ears of wheat entwined with a red ribbon of the Order of St. Alexander.