Pavlohrad

Pavlohrad lies on the Vovcha in the Samara river basin, in the steppe east of the Dnipro. Its beginnings are associated with a Zaporozhian Cossack wintering place, around which the military sloboda of Matviivka was established in 1775. It was later called Luhanska, then received the name Pavlohrad and town status in 1784. Cossacks from the Samara and Kalmius districts were among the early inhabitants.