[3] The city is located in the Dniester Delta, on the left bank of the Turunchuk River.

[4] The populated place (village at that time) was founded by the Ukrainian Cossacks after the elimination of the Zaporizhian Sich.

The village started to be a volost administrative center in Odesa county in 1886.

On 28 January 2016, it was designated the city of oblast significance but remained the administrative center of the raion.

[8][9] Besides the Ukrainians, the city of Biliaivka has a significant number of Germans, Bulgarians, Greeks and Romani.