[2] On 12 June 2020, the hromada was officially created by an edict of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, uniting the six village councils as part of decentralization reforms.

[5] In January 2021, Serhiy Trofymenko, then-head of the hromada, died in the hospital after a vehicle accident.

Elections were held later that year, with Stanislav Zakharevych, who had previously been offered a government position by Trofymenko, running as a candidate.

Some members of the hromada waged partisan resistance against the occupation, torching unattended Russian military vehicles in the night.

The hromada took in refugees from Mariupol, a city to the east that was being put under a destructive siege by Russian forces.

Reportedly, the occupiers mocked and degraded the Mariupolitans that arrived, asking them why they had fled their city and promising that Zaporizhzhia would become "a second Mariupol".

[2] Eventually, in early June 2022, the Russians turned their attention to Sofiivka rural hromada.

Militiamen from the Russian proxy Donetsk People's Republic along with some collaborationist police approached Zakharevych and offered him the position of "acting mayor of Prymorsk".

Eventually, along with Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov, Zakharevych was released in a prisoner exchange, and he managed to reach a "relatively safe" place where he continued to organize aid to people of the occupied territories.

Additionally, the hromada is referred to in the documents as belonging to Prymorsk Raion (which was abolished in 2020), but with administration performed by the "VGA of Berdyanskyi District".