Zlatopil (Ukrainian: Златопіль), formerly known as Pervomaiskyi[a] until 2024 and Likhachevo or Lykhacheve[b] until 1952, is a city in Lozova Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

After the Russian Civil War the (joint) Alekseevskogo, Berekskogo, Upper Bishkinskogo rural Soviets decided to relocate the peasants of these villages to the farm Likhachevo.

15 people from the village joined the partisans in Alexeevski district, whose leaders were Secretary of the Communist Party VS Ulyanov and executive committee chairman AG Buznyka.

On 16 September 1943 troops of the Steppe Front finally returned Likhachevo to Soviet control.

[7][8] In 2022 attempts were made twice to rename the city as part of the decommunization derussification campaigns in Ukraine.

[10] After another failed vote in the local city council on 25 January 2024 the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) can decide on the new name of Pervomaiskyi since the Ukrainian derussification law stipulates that the local city council had until 27 January 2024 to rename the itself and after that date the Verkhovna Rada would do it.

Zlatopil is also a main road hub which links many other cities like Lozova, Merefa, Balakliia and Izium together with the Kharkiv Oblast.

Zlatopil was planned as a colony for the workers and clerical staff of the Khimprom chemical factory.

Zlatopil's climate is moderate continental: cold and snowy winters, and hot summers.

The seasonal average temperatures are not too cold in winter, not too hot in summer: −6.9 °C (19.6 °F) in January, and 20.3 °C (68.5 °F) in July.

The town is home to a large community of people who claim to have an ethnic Russian background.

Accounting for almost 38% of the population in 2001, Zlatopil has the second-highest incedence of Russian descendants in any major settlement in the entire Kharkiv Oblast.

The exact ethnic composition was as follows:[13] Zlatopil has two newspapers working within the region and city, and two private TV channels: