Pervomaiskyi

Pervomaiskyi is a small city located 86 km from Kharkiv. The city of chemists and manufacturers was founded in 1869. Its creation is linked to the laying of the railway from Kursk to Zaliznytsia. Its first name was Lykhachove. It was named after the landowner Lykhachov. At that time, he owned an estate in the village of Syvash. Lykhachove steadily grew thanks to incoming workers. In less than 60 years, 85 households appeared here. In 1929, it was decided to rename the settlement in honor of May Day. That is how the name popular at the time, Pervomaiskyi, came into being.

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The settlement’s prosperity came in the postwar years, when active development of Pervomaiskyi with new educational and public institutions began. In 1964, a chemical plant was built here, and 4 years later — a reinforced-concrete structures plant. Since 1991, the settlement has had city status. The industrial sector has begun to develop rapidly here, and since 2018, construction of one of the most powerful solar power plants in Ukraine has been planned.

Pervomaiskyi is known to tourists for the annual Velotour through the fortresses of Slobozhanshchyna. The route includes a road that passes through the best-known local fortresses: Mykhailivska, Oleksiivska and Yefremivska.