Velyka Oleksandrivka

Velyka Oleksandrivka stands on the left bank of the Inhulets, a tributary of the Dnipro crossing the southern steppe. Settlers from the Poltava and Chernihiv regions founded it in 1784 under the name Novooleksandrivka. In 1803 another group established a village farther downstream, called Mala Oleksandrivka, or Little Oleksandrivka; the older settlement became Velyka, the Great. The two villages grew along the same river in a region newly opened to imperial settlement.