Pervomaiskyi
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Pervomaiskyi Первомайський |
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| City of regional significance | |||
Railway station
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| Nickname(s): Likhachova | |||
 Pervomaiskyi
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| Coordinates: 49°23′13″N 36°12′51″E / 49.38694°N 36.21417°E | |||
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 Ukraine
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| Oblast |
 Kharkiv Oblast
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| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Mykola Baksheev (Fatherland) | ||
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| • Total | 14.5 km2 (5.6 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2004) | |||
| • Total | 49,500 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+2) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Postal code | 64102-6 | ||
| Area code(s) | +380-5748 | ||
| Website | Unofficial website | ||
Pervomaiskyi (Ukrainian: Первомайський) is a city in Kharkiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine, formerly known as Likhachova. Its population is 32,523 (2001) which makes it the fourth largest city in Kharkiv Oblast.
The city is known for Khimprom, one of the biggest chemical factories in the former USSR. The city has lush green plots and parks, a cultural center named "DK Khimik" and a stadium also named "Khimik".
In 1869 a railway was opened, Курск-Харьков-Sevastopol. In August of the same year a whistle stop was built 80 kilometres from Kharkiv. Trains stopped for water and firewood and the station was named Likhachevo, in honour of a squire Likhachova, whose estate was near a village Sivash in a few kilometres from the railway. Water was supplied from lake Sivash and a water-tower was built.
After the Russian Civil War the (joint) Alekseevskogo, Berekskogo, Upper Bishkinskogo rural Soviets decided to relocate the peasants of these villages to the farm Likhachevo. So in 1924 a settlement was built in Likhachevo which originally was under the jurisdiction of the Upper Bishkinskomu village council. The founders of the village were migrants from the villages of Alexeevka, Berek, Maslivka, and Upper-Bishkin. They built streets, such as the 1st of May Street. Agriculture and crafts schools were built, along with a primary school, which both children and adults attended.
In 1927 the village had 13 lots and 56 residents. In 1928, it was 85 lots. The population increased as workers came to work at the brick and mechanical plant, as well as the mill. In September 1929, on the initiative of activists Tolokneeva and Fedoseenko, a gang was organized in the village. At the suggestion of porters, it was called "May 1" in honor of the international proletarian holiday. In early December 1929 Lihachevsky machine-tractor station was organized (one of the first in the Kharkiv district). Lihachevsky MTS first served 30 collective Alexeevski district.
According to the Soviet census of 1939, 640 people lived in Likhachevo.
On October 20, 1941 the Nazis occupied Likhachevo. 38 boys and girls were sent to work as slave laborers in Germany. 15 people from the village joined the partisans in Alexeevski district, whose leaders were Secretary of the Communist Party VS Ulyanov and executive committee chairman AG Buznyka.
Likhachevo repeatedly became the site of fierce fighting. During the war, it changed hands four times. On September 16, 1943 troops of the Steppe Front finally returned Likhachevo to Soviet control.
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