The village was renamed imeni Karla Libknekhta (имени Карла Либкнехта) from 1935 to 1945.

[1][2] It was renamed Shyrokolanivka after the remaining German residents were driven from the area by the advancing Soviet army.

The village was established in 1810 as Landau by Roman Catholic German immigrants to the Beresaner Valley, then part of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire.

The Catholic church in Landau was converted into a parachute-jumping platform.

[4]: 265  The Orthodox church and cemetery in Landau were destroyed and a theater was built at the site; in the fall of 1937, the theater was the venue for a show trial against parish priests in the region (including the Landau parish priest, Anton Hoffmann) accused of anti-Soviet activity.