Oleksandrivka, Kherson Oblast

In 1754 the village of Oleksandrivka was founded by the Cossacks. There were winter quarters, fish factories (called Sapetnya), where the Cossacks were engaged in fishing and extracting salt from the nearby open estuary, or liman, of the Dnieper and Southern Bug rivers. The village is part of a 996-hectare protected landscape area of ​​national importance Oleksandrivka created in 2002.[2]

Oleksandrivka is located near the suburbs of Olbia Pontica, an ancient Greek colony located in this estuary, whose ruins were discovered in 1895 by Viktor Goshkevych and were excavated systematically by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Oleksandrivka Natural Reserve

In 1781, the estate of Russian general Pyotr Rumyantsev had surrounded the earlier Cossack settlement, and a formal village was proclaimed.[3]

Several important battles of the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 took place in the liman next to Oleksandrivka. These battles, which included the Dnieper Flotilla,[4] John Paul Jones's deep-water fleet,[5][6] and the Ottoman Navy – included the First Battle of the Liman on June 7, 1788, and the Second Battle of the Liman on June 16 and 17.[4][6]

In 1918, the village became part of Ukrainian People's Republic. With the failure of the Ukrainian War of Independence, the village became part of the USSR.

In 2015, during nationwide decommunization, a statue of Vladimir Lenin was torn down by a unknown person.[7]

Until 18 July 2020, Oleksandrivka was located in the Bilozerka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kherson Oblast to five. The area of Bilozerka Raion was merged into Kherson Raion.[8][9]

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Oleksandrivka changed hands a number of times due to its geographical location between Mykolaiv and Kherson.