Azure with base vert; park gate or, in the gate is an key argent head up, bit to the right. The shield is enframed by cartouche or and crowned by city crown argent. The author is V.E.Kryvenko.
The gate based in the first half of XIX century by earl M.D.Tolstoi (1804-1891). It is symbol of Onufriivka - an oustanding monument of landscape gardening of the state value. In the composition key as element of the earl's arms. It symbolizes wisdom, knowledge, freedom of a choice of actions. The key appears in heraldry as an emblem of free cities, that is self-management. The head of a key made out as symbol of the Sacred Trinity.
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В.Кривенко, К.Шляховий. Символіка Кіровоградщини. Альбом. - Кіровоград: Поліграфічно-видавничий центр "Мавік", 2008. - 208 с.
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