Gulyaypole

The city of Gulyaypole is located on the banks of the Gaychur River ^{[2] [3]} , the village of Marfopol is located upstream at a distance of 3.5 km, and the village of Zelenoye is located downstream at a distance of 1.5 km. Numerous drying streams with dams flow through the city.

The settlement arose in the XVIII century ^[2] , after the construction of the Dnieper defensive line (in the 1770s - 1780s) as a military settlement for protection from the Crimean Khanate .

The village of Gulyaypole was part of the Alexander district of the Yekaterinoslav province of the Russian Empire .

During the civil war, the village gained fame as the center of the Makhnovist rebel movement ^[3] . Nestor Ivanovich Makhno , commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, was born and raised here. Other famous rebel leaders came from these places: Victor Belash , Semyon Karetnik , Fedosiy Schus , Thomas Kozhin , the Lepetchenko brothers (Ivan and Alexander), Marchenko and others.

During the industrialization of the 1930s, the rapid development of industry began here ^[2] .

In 1938 , the status of a city of regional subordination ^{[3] [4]} was obtained.

During the Great Patriotic War on October 6, 1941, the city was occupied by German troops ^{[5] [6]} , on September 16, 1943, was liberated by the Soviet troops of the Southern Front during the Donbass operation ^[5] .

In 1952, there was a brick factory, an oil factory, a sewing and shoe factory, a teacher training school, a secondary school, four seven-year schools, six elementary schools, a cinema and a club ^[2] .

In 1970, the population was 16 thousand people, there was an agricultural machinery factory, a paint and varnish product factory, a car repair factory, a household goods factory, a cheese factory and a shoe factory ^[3] .

In January 1989, the population was 19,198 people ^[7] , the basis of the economy at that time was the agricultural machinery factory, the paint and varnish product factory, the shoe factory and the food industry ^[4] .

In May 1995, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the decision on the privatization of the experimental experimental plant of agricultural machinery ^[8] , the factory of paint and varnish products, regional agricultural machinery and regional agricultural chemistry ^[9] , and in July 1995 a decision was approved on the privatization of the state farm ^[10] .

As of January 1, 2013, the population was 14,358 people ^[11] .

• "Selmash", plant, OJSC.
• "Agricultural House", CJSC.
• Gulyaypol Engineering Plant.
• CJSC Gulyaypol cheese factory.
• Gulyaypolsky elevator.
• Gulyaypolsky factory of paints and varnishes, LLC.
• Gulyaypol rayavtodor.

Also near the city is the Kusungur magnetite ore deposit.

Located 7 km from the railway station Gulyaypole station ^[2] (on the Pologi – Chaplino line) ^[3] .

The T-0814 and T-0401 motorways also pass through the city.

• Gulyaypol school number 1
• Gulyaypolsky hospital.
• Gulyaypolsky professional agrarian lyceum (vocational school No. 26).
• Gulyaypol school number 2
• Gulyaypol school number 3
• Gulyaypol school number 4
• Gulyaypol Youth Sports School
• Gulyaypol House of Creativity
• Gulyaypol Museum of Local Lore .

• Makhno Nestor Ivanovich - leader of the rebel movement in 1918-1921.
• Tardov, Mikhail Semenovich - Russian and Ukrainian Soviet writer, poet, screenwriter, playwright.
• Yukhvid Leonid Aronovich - Soviet playwright , author of the libretto of the operetta “ The Wedding in the Robin ” and the script of the eponymous feature film .