Vasylivka

Vasylivka began as a settlement in the Donets steppe, on a postal road crossing the land of the Don Cossacks. In 1784 the Cossack officer Ivan Vasyliev established an inn near a place known as the Snowy site, and settlement followed. The village bore his name, Vasylivka, while the surrounding ravines and open country formed part of the pastoral and farming frontier of the Donets basin.