Onufriivka (Ukrainian: Онуфріївка) is a rural settlement in Oleksandriia Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine.

The oldest traces of human existence in the Onufriivka Raion date back to the Neolithic era.

The first documentary mention of the farm (khutir) of a retired Cossack Vasyl Onufrienko dated 1741 in describing Dnieper possessions of Potoky sotnia of Myrhorod Polk (regiment)Vasyl Onofrey showed that he has a farm on the other side of the Dnieper, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He showed all his establishment, beautiful horses and so on..."[13]After the death of I. Komburley in 1792, Onufriivka was jointly owned by his sons - Mikhail and Pyotr.

Mikhail Komburley was once a senator, a real state councilor, Kursk (1798) and Volyn governor (1807-1817), his brother Pyotr was chief of hussar squadrons of Potemkin's convoy in 1789-1791, retired to the reserve in ranks second-major.

[15] After the death of M. Komburley in 1821, his lands, including Onufriivka, passed into the ownership of Mikhail D. Tolstoy, a real state councilor, colonel of the Artillery Guard, chairman of the Imperial Society of Agriculture of Southern Russia.

He was the director of the Odesa City Theater for a long time, laid the construction of a new building for him and contributed to the development of Onufriivka.

Mikhail Mikhailovich held high government positions, he was a court counselor, a member of the Council of the Imperial Society of Agriculture of Southern Russia, a member of the Odesa City Duma, honorary trustee of the Odesa City Public Library, which gave 770 volumes of books and magazines worth about 100 thousand rubles.

[21] As of 1886, the town, the center of Onufrievka Volost of Aleksandriysky Uyezd of Kherson Governorate, had 1414 people, 254 farmsteads, an Orthodox church, a school, 5 shops, and 3 fairs a year: Seredopisny, Mykilsky on 9 May and Pokrovsky.

[22] Mikhail Tolstoy was a large landowner and introduced advanced methods of management on their lands, used a perfect machinery at that time, iron plows, horse threshers and fans.

In addition, Tolstoy was almost shot by Chekists from the Oleksandria uezd Cheka, his life was saved by Onufriivka peasants.

At the end of August 1920 the Bolsheviks were driven out of the village during a raid by the Steppe Division under the command of S. Klepach (Ataman Paliy).

Only workers cleared the alleys, tended the trees and numerous flower beds, and swans in the park ponds.

In 1960, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR adopted a resolution according to which the Onufriivka Dendropark was recognized as the 19th century landscape architecture monument.