[3] The landscape around the town is notable for pyramid-shaped manmade hills, by-products of the coal mining industry.

[citation needed] The settlement was founded in 1764 as a village named Holubivka by the Russian colonel Peter Golub.

When coal mines were developed in the area, the village became known as Holubivskyi Rudnyk (Ukrainian: Голубівський Рудник).

After the area was recaptured from Nazi Germany, in September 1944 the mining settlement was incorporated into Kadiivka as the Holubivskyi District.

[citation needed] As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:[5] The Kirovsk Municipality represented by the Kirovsk City council consists of two urban settlements (towns, Donetskyi and Krynychanske) and two rural settlements (hamlets, Krynychne and Tavrychanske) that belonged to Chervonohvardiiske Municipality.