The city was formed when three neighbouring settlements: the village of Holta (Голта) and the town of Bohopil (Богопіль) around a county city of Olviopol (Ольвіополь) were merged.
In the 17th century Holta was part of Zaporizhian Sich, Bohopil was the customs point of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Olviopol was part of the Russian Empire [REF].