Hryshyne

Hryshyne is a steppe village on the Hryshanka River, north of the site of the later town of Pokrovsk. References to the sloboda appear in the 1790s, when settlements were spreading across the former Zaporizhzhian lands. Local stories attribute its name to a man called Hrysha, though accounts differ about his identity. A church dedicated to the Protection of the Mother of God was built in the village in 1804.