Kryvyi Rih Area
A Legend About the Beauty Rudana and Her Lover,
the Hunter by the Name Ingulets The Gods punished the tribe of Rudana by an awful drought, and they expected to receive the victim and the most expensive one that people had: To have the barns crammed with goods And, as earlier, all in abounded, Let the best pair of young people Offer themselves in sacrifice to the gods! And the proud beauty Rudana together with her groom unbent and without fear, went to the sacrificial rock. Rudana went up the rocky peaks, Resolutely stepped to the edge, And cried aloud: “Farewell, people!” – And rushed as a stone downwards. And not the fall of the body the tribe heard – But the thunder cracked the granite! By the impact the ground was stirred up, And the lightning fired the zenith. By steep flows of the rain rushed to the ground and hid both lovers. At that place two small rivers merged: the red one, as if with the blood, Saksagan and the muddy Ingulets. And on the surface of the rock there appeared the deposits of iron ore (people say it is the blood of Rudana), the excavation of which brings a considerable benefit to the citizens of Kryvyi Rih now. Where did the name of Kryvyi Rih
come from? In 1734, after creating the New Sich, the territory of Kryvyi Rih was included into the structure of the Russian Empire. And in February, 1775, the government assigned the Zaporizhya Kish to build a post station at the place of the merge of Saksagan and Ingulets. This honourable mission was entrusted to the clerk of the Kish, Feodosy Kudlik. So, on April the 27th (May the 8th) of 1775 the state post station of Kryvyi Rih started to function with 5 Cossacks from various regiments. Thus, the 8th of May (by the new style) is the official date of the establishment of the post station at the place where the city is located today. It is hard to explain where the name of Kryvyi Rih came from, though researchers give enough interpretation to the name of the city. In 1781, the academician V. Zuev made a record: “Kryvyi Rih means the stone cape between Saksagan and Ingulets, the one, that the small river Saksagan, in the length of five miles envelopes this capenin such a way that the fourth of the mile distance is between the two knees of the cape, that is why it carries the name Kryvyi Rih”. One more etymological version of the name is stated by the scientists of the institute of linguistics named after O. Potebnya. Scientists assert, that it resembles the large gully, which had the name, the Curve Gully (Horn). In reality, on the maps of the Novorossiyskaya province, dated 1785, the place of the lowest merge of the rivers Ingulets and Saksagan is designated as the Kryvyi Yar.
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