 Vekykokomarivka is in the Odessa Oblast subdivision (province) of western Ukraine, just east of the Moldovan border and about 130 kilometres northwest of the city of Odessa.Velykokomarivka was founded as Kassel in 1810.It is part of the Bergdorf, Glückstal, Kassel, Neudorf area, then part of the Kherson Governorate, which was allocated by the Imperial Russian government to German immigrants who left certain areas of Germany/Hungary (Hesse, Baden, Württemberg (now Baden-Württemberg), Alsace (now part of France), the Palatinate, or Hungary) between 1808 and 1810.