Pavlohrad

Pavlohrad is a commercial town in eastern Ukraine, located inside the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast. Administratively, Pavlohrad is integrated as the town of oblast importance and serves as the workplace of Pavlohrad Raion which it does not belong to. Its populace is about 107,742. The place of the city is 59.3 rectangular kilometers. There are 20 schools and 1 lyceum within the city. Pavlohrad is one of the oldest settlements in Dnepropetrovsk oblast.

The first references to it are from the 17^th century. At the beginning of the 1770s Zaporozhian Cossack Matvii Khizhnyak built iciness quarters, which soon have become called sloboda Matviivka. In 1779 Matveevka changed into renamed to Luhanske, because the latter have become headquarters of the Luhansk pikemen regiment headed through M. I. Golinishchev Kutuzov. With the status quo of Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty, Pavlohrad, named in honor of Paul І, became part of this administrative unit as a district city. In 1784 Pavlohrad acquired metropolis popularity.