Sofiivka

Sofiivka lies in the steppe between the Bazavluk and Saksahan rivers, east of Kryvyi Rih. The village was founded in the 1790s on land associated with General Dunin, who named it for Sofia. Its establishment followed the settlement of the country between the two rivers by farming families in the later eighteenth century. The Bazavluk flows south towards the Dnipro through the former lands of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.