Pervomaiskyi

The city of Pervomaisky is located 85 km south of Kharkov, between Krasnograd and Balakleia. It was founded in 1869 as a Likhachevo station on the Kursk-Kharkov-Sevastopol railway. The half-station was named in honor of the landowner K. Likhachev from the neighboring village. Sivash, on whose lands the road was laid. Likhachev was the largest grain merchant in the district. In the beginning. XX century. he built a gas-generating mill at the station, one of the largest in the Kharkov region. The village of railroad workers Likhachevo was formed in 1924, became a regional center in 1947, and in 1952 it was renamed Pervomaisky. During the Soviet period, it gradually developed and in 1991 received the status of a city. In 2011, the nine-domed Holy Kazan Church, rebuilt from a cinema, was co ...

The city of Pervomaisky is located 85 km south of Kharkov, between Krasnograd and Balakleia. It was founded in 1869 as a Likhachevo station on the Kursk-Kharkov-Sevastopol railway. The half-station was named in honor of the landowner K. Likhachev from the neighboring village. Sivash, on whose lands the road was laid. Likhachev was the largest grain merchant in the district. In the beginning. XX century. he built a gas-generating mill at the station, one of the largest in the Kharkov region. The village of railroad workers Likhachevo was formed in 1924, became a regional center in 1947, and in 1952 it was renamed Pervomaisky. During the Soviet period, it gradually developed and in 1991 received the status of a city. In 2011, the nine-domed Holy Kazan Church, rebuilt from a cinema, was consecrated.