Kirovograd (Russian: Кировоград) was a 2,883 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1929 as Hercules by AG Weser, Bremen, Germany for Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Neptun.

She was seized by the British in May 1945, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Dovey.

[1] On 23 June she was declared a prize of war, along with her cargo,[5] which included 1½ tons of grease, which was sold by public tender in January 1946.

[3] In February 1946, Empire Dovey was transferred to the Soviet Union under the terms of the Potsdam Agreement.

[1] On 11 July 1960, she collided with the motor barge Gladys in the Medway Estuary off the Isle of Grain, Kent, United Kingdom.