 In 1938, it was granted urban-type settlement status and renamed Bannovsky ().The settlement served as a resort destination and steadily grew in size, until in 1964 it was granted town status and renamed Slovianohirsk ()/Slavyanogorsk (), with the first part of the name ("Sloviano"-/"Slavyano"-) being after the nearby city of Sloviansk (Slavyansk), and the second part (-"hirsk"/-"gorsk") being after the Holy Mountains.In 2003, the name was changed to Sviatohirsk, after the monastery itself.