Pershotravensk

Pershotravensk (Першотравенськ, ) is a city and municipality in Synelnykove Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It has a population of

History
Pershotravensk has its origins in 1954 as a mining village named Shakhtarske that grew up around the mines that were built in the area, in Pavlohrad Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. On 6 May 1960 Shakhtarske was given the status of an urban-type settlement and renamed Pershotravensk. It received city status on 26 February 1966. Pershotravensk was also incorporated as a city of oblast significance, meaning that it was subordinated directly to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast instead of to Pavlohrad Raion within the oblast.

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven, the city of Pershotravensk was merged into Synelnykove Raion. In April 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the law "On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy", which mandates Pershotravensk's name to be changed, because its current name commemorates the Communist International Workers' Day which is celebrated on 1 May (Persho traven in Ukrainian). According to law this renaming has to take place before 27 January 2024.

Notable people

 * Oleksandr Kubrakov (born 1982), Ukrainian economist and politician
 * Yaroslav Rakitskyi (born 1989), Ukrainian footballer
 * Artem Vasko (born 2000), Ukrainian footballer
 * Vitaliy Vitsenets (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer
 * Artur Zapadnya (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer