Dobrovelychkivka

Dobrovelychkivka (Ukrainian: Добровеличківка) is a settlement in Novoukrainka Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, southern Ukraine.

[2] It hosts a regional bazaar on Wednesday and Friday mornings, and is noted for being the purported geographical center of Ukraine.

The settlement was founded as a khutir in 1776 by Major Velychkivskyi who sold it next year to poruchik Revutskyi.

Until World War I, in the settlement existed a female teacher seminary, which in 1916 graduated a wife of Nestor Makhno, Halyna Kuzmenko.

On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Dobrovelychkivka became a rural settlement.