Kirovgrad (Russian: Кировград) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.

[7] The settlement Kalatay (Kala-ata in Turkic means "father's place") was, according to various sources, founded in 1661, 1663, or 1675.

[citation needed] In 1932, it was given its present name; after Sergey Kirov, a prominent Bolshevik.

[citation needed] Within the framework of the administrative divisions, it is, together with the town of Verkhny Tagil and ten rural localities, incorporated as the Town of Kirovgrad[1]—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

[8] As a municipal division, Kirovgrad and eight rural localities are incorporated as Kirovgradsky Urban Okrug.