In late 17th century, these villages belonged to Andriy Hamaliya, whose son was a like-minded person and supporter of Ivan Mazepa.

After the Battle of Poltava (1709) tsar Peter I gave these villages to landowner Golovin, whose descendants sold them later to the Kochubey family.

[4] The settlements Yurasivka and Khutir-Mykhailivskyi were then part of Glukhovsky Uyezd in Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire.

During World War II, Druzhba was occupied by Axis troops from October 1941 to August 1943.

[5][4] There was a sugar plant, a cinder block factory, three secondary schools, five libraries, a club and a stadium.

There are three schools in the city — two comprehensive I-III degrees and one comprehensive I-II degrees, a nursery-kindergarten, two hospitals, a pharmacy, a house of culture, a railwaymen club, a branch of Yampil Music and children's and youth sports schools.

[8] Source:[9][10] As of 2001:[1] As of 2001: The city is located in the northern part of Sumy Oblast and lies in the valley of the Zhuravka River and its tributaries.

This is the land of forests: pine grows from conifers on the hills, and spruce in the lowlands, birch, oak, alder are often found here.