 Znamianka was established initially as a train station in 1869 during construction of the Balta-Kremenchuk-Poltava railroad, connecting Poltava with Odessa.To the area were resettled peasants from the Oryol Governorate area, possible the Russian Old Believers for whom the Our Lady of the Sign sacred.In Russian the Sign means Znamiennie, so in diminutive form the settlement's name became Znamianka.