Oleksandrivka

Oleksandrivka lies on the Samara River in the northern Donets steppe. The village was founded in 1762 as an estate settlement belonging to Lieutenant General D. Norov, near branches of the old Muravsky and Zalozny routes. Its inhabitants cultivated rye, wheat, millet and oats and raised cattle and sheep. The village grew in the eighteenth-century settlement of a region where routes across the open country had long been important.