Aleksandrovka (Zolochevsky district)

The village of Aleksandrovka is located on both banks of the Gayvoronka or Grayvoronka river (the old name is Cossack ). Upstream, the village of Shirokiy Yar adjoins it (located 500 m from Aleksandrovka), downstream the village of Ivashki adjoins (closely adjoins Alexandrovka), on the right bank are the villages of Zavadskoye and Skoriki .

The village has two axes: the main one is elongated along the Grayvoronka river on its left bank from Lyutovka to Ivashki, perpendicular to it is stretched from the Grayvoronka on the left bank of the long Sugar rate on Timofeevsky stream to Timofeevka.

Several streams with dams flow through the village. There are two large ponds: Sugar (main) on the Timofeevsky stream, on the right bank of which the Congress Sugar Factory is located, and on the left - the historical part of the village. Common carp, mirror carp, roach, and crucian carp are found in the rate. Another rate is located behind a dairy farm on the road to Russia, which is 4 km from it.

The historical part of the village, surrounded at the beginning of the 20th century during the construction of a sugar factory with a slag wall to prevent outsiders from accessing it, is located on a hill on the left bank of the Grayvoronka above the Sugar rate. There are house b. factory manager (1 Lenina St.), a water pump, an old pre-revolutionary park, and behind them - a school. At the moment, the old wall around the plant has been preserved, around the village partially preserved.

The village of Klinovo-Novoselovka arose in the second half of the 18th century, after the peasant reform of 1861 it was renamed Alexandrovka ^[1] .

In 1913, a sugar factory was built here ^[1] .

In the 1930s, it was renamed the village of Congressovka , later the name Alexandrovka was returned.

During the Great Patriotic War, the village was under German occupation , during which the sugar factory and collective farm were destroyed, and 85 villagers were taken to work in Germany ^[1] .

In 1960, located in the village collective farm named. NK Krupskaya was reorganized into a branch of the state farm ^[1] .

As of the beginning of 1966, the population was 2140 people, a sugar factory, a brick factory, a motor depot, a secondary school, a club, a library and a hospital with 25 beds were operating in the village ^[1] .

In July 1995, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the decision to privatize the Congress sugar factory ^[2] , after which the state-owned enterprise was transformed into an open joint-stock company .

According to the 2001 census, the population was1671 people .

In September 2003, the sugar factory was declared bankrupt ^[3] , but later became the property of the Kharkov company Sintal-D LLC and in 2005 resumed production ^[4] . In 2012, the plant stopped ^{[5] [6]} .

At a distance of three km from Alexandrovka, the border with Russia passes.

The highway T-2103 passes through the village. At 4 km there is the Muravsky railway station on the old Muravsky route .

Bus communication with Zolochev through Lyutovka . Bus connection with Kharkov - passing the intercity bus Grayvoron - Kharkov.

Nearest train station station - Odnorobovka (station) , 4 km.

Before the revolution, a railway line was made to the sugar factory and to the settlers for sugar beet pulp on the outskirts of the village. Commodity station and railway deadlocks persisted until the early 2010s (the rails were turned over for scrap in 2013). In Soviet times, the sugar factory had two or three of its own steam locomotive .

• Dairy farm.
• Congress sugar factory, OJSC. It was built before the revolution of 1905 , the well-known directors of the plant are Cherkashin, Viktor Ivanovich , and Cherginets, Mikhail. Since 2002, the plant is owned by TMM , a large Kiev construction company, and is part of the Sintal division. Closed since 2012.
• State Farm "Congress" of 4 departments (Aleksandrovskoe (Aleksandrovka and Timofeevka ), Lyutovskoe ( Lyutovka ), Odnorobovskoe ( Odnorobovka ) and Vozrozhdenovskoe ( Vozrozhdenovka ); specialization - grain and sugar beets . Destroyed in the 1990s.

• Alexander secondary school (two-story).

• Mass grave of Soviet soldiers (1943).
• The office building of the manager of the sugar factory, in Soviet times - factory management (1914). In the 1990s, interiors were destroyed, in particular, a twisted cast-iron staircase leading to the second floor in the office of the manager.
• Dormitory building and library of the sugar factory (1916).

• Avtomonov, Pavel Fedorovich (1922-1988) - Soviet writer, screenwriter ^[1] .
• Vanya Vasilchenko is a pioneer hero , who was killed during collectivization in 1933 ^{[1] [7]} .
• I. D. Pustovarov - Hero of Socialist Labor ^[1]
• During the war and the occupation , the parents of the Soviet dissident general Petro Grigorenko lived in the village ^[8] .

• Website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine