Usivka

Usivka was a Cossack settlement on the Inhulets, at the site of later Oleksandriia. By the late 1730s farms of the Myrhorod Cossack regiment stood near the mouth of the Berezivka, and Usivka appears in records in 1746. With the creation of New Serbia, military settlements and a Pandur regiment were established in the area. The place received the name Oleksandriia in 1784, before briefly reverting to Usivka at the end of the century.