The shield per fess by the argent abaised wavy fess on a gules field and an azure base. In the first field are crossed yatahgan and a sword, above it is twelve-bows star or.
The star is a symbol of purposefulness and attentiveness, a reference point of a just way, a pledge of heavenly protection, spiritual and material revival, the declaration of a humane public choice.
The crossed yatahgan and sword are symbols of an opposition of death, a mention of struggle of the Ukrainian cossacks with the Tatar and turkish enslavers which occured on these lands. The argent wavy strip symbolizes Mala Vyska river on which banks was the settlement which now became city.
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Yu.Brovchenko.
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V.Napytkin.
В.Кривенко, К.Шляховий. Символіка Кіровоградщини. Альбом. - Кіровоград: Поліграфічно-видавничий центр "Мавік", 2008. - 208 с.
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