[3] During the Russian Revolution of 1905, the station became the epicenter and last stronghold of the armed uprising of the workers of Zaporizhzhia, at the time named Oleksandrivsk.

On 23 December 1905, the workers of the Yekaterinsky and Southern Railway Workshops in Oleksandrivsk joined the All-Russian political strike.

On the night of December 26, 1905, the Cossacks attacked the strikers and arrested the leader of the strike, Volodymyr Vasiliev.

[4] On the night of 23 to 24 December 1920, the agitational train "Bolshevik" crashed on the railway bridge over the Mokra Moskovka river, near the Oleksandrivsk-1 station, leaving 29 people dead.

In 2015, as part of decommunization, the hammer and sickle and the five-pointed star were removed from the sculpture on facade of the building, and a clock and the trident were added instead.

[7] After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the station temporarily serves as a terminus for all trains coming from the north and west of the country.