Adzhamka


Adzhamka is a village in Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast of central Ukraine.

History

The settlement was founded by Cossacks in the early 1750s. From 1754 to 1759 and again from 1761 to 1764, the village was part of the Slobid Cossack Regiment. In 1769, the village was burned down by the army of Qırım Giray.
In 1886, 6,508 people lived in the Adzhamka, the center of the Ajam Parish of the Oleksandrii District of the Kherson Governorate, there were 1,142 farm households, there were 2 Orthodox churches, a parish school opened in 1885, 16 benches, an annual fair on 1 October, and bazaars were held daily.
According to data in 1894, Adzhamka had a population of 10,182, 1,405 farmsteads, 2 Orthodox churches, 2 parochial and zemstvo schools with 288 students, a zemstvo post office, a hospital, a doctor and a paramedic, a steam mill, 5 bread pantries, a forest warehouse, a bulk warehouse for wine and alcohol, 19 benches, 3 drinking establishments, there were 4 fairs a year and bazaars 162 days a year.

Demographics

According to the 2020 census, the population of Adzhamka was 3,600 people, including 1,200 pensioners.
Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:
LanguagePercentage
Ukrainian95.99%
Russian3.14%
Moldovan 0.32%
Belarusian0.12%
Hungarian0.05%
Bulgarian0.02%
Gagauz0.02%
Other0.34%