The rich Germans in the fields hogwashed poor from neighboring villages, such as Cazaclia, Congaz, Corten, Cealîc, Samurza, etc.

The favorable climatic conditions of the south of Bessarabia and the richest, fertile soil determined the economic activities of the German colonists: farming (viticulture, melon growing, growing winter crops, sunflower, flax, hemp) and cattle breeding (cattle, sheep).

The village council, motor-tractor station, and collective farm were liquidated with the start of World War II.

It was entered by residents of the settlements of Denevița, Alexeevca and Corten Nou, including the former workers of the collective farm “28 June”.

From the beginning of the 1960s to the mid-1990s, entire neighborhoods of individual residential houses were built in Svetlîi for the specialists of the state farm technical school.

In 1972, the administrative building of the village council, consumer services house, and veterinary clinic were built.

On March 5, 1995, at a national referendum held on the issue of joining the autonomous territorial unit of Gagauzia, residents of the villages of Svetlîi and Alexeevca voted for entering the new entity.