[3] The city has a Holodomor memorial and in 2009 the municipal administration took down the Lenin monument which was repeatedly vandalized.

[4][5] The settlement of Obukhiv, originally known as Lukavytsia was first mentioned in historical documents in 1362.

The soil in the area is high in chernozems, phaeozems, greyzems (ch), dark colored, deep soils in organic matter, calcareous lower in profile, also typical of grass steppe/prairie.

[citation needed] Oleksandr Levchenko was elected mayor in March 2012 (with 38.6% of the total vote); thanks to a low voter turnout of 43% with only 4,500.

[8][9] Levchenko was reelected as mayor in the October 2020 Ukrainian local elections with 51.5% of the votes as a candidate of the Servant of the People.