 Initially there was one small plantation on the left bank of the Huyvy, known as Yatsyukoviy.Laborers came from the surrounding villages and beet was extracted by primitive methods, using horses and oxen.The growth of the population let to a demand for tertiary employment, builders and other jobs which were often carried out seasonally, and the hiring peasants from surrounding villages rose steadily after the abolition of serfdom in 1861.