Gulyaypole city lies on the River Gaychur , upstream at a distance of 3.5 km is the village Marfopol , downstream at a distance of 1.5 km is the village green . Flow through the city with numerous perennial streams dams .
The city was inhabited since ancient times.
Here mound and found the remains of settlements from the Bronze Age (II-I millennium BC. E . ) And Polovtsian stone sculpture of XII-XIII centuries.
Gulyaypole village was founded in the 1770s as an outpost to protect against the Crimean Khanate.
Gulyaypole received great fame during the Civil War .
It was here in the years 1917-1921 is the center of the rebel movement Makhno . Here was born and raised Nestor Makhno , commander in chief of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.
Of these places there have been other known rebel leaders Victor Belas , Simon Cartwright , Fedosy Shchus , Thomas Kozhin Lepetchenko brothers (Ivan and Alexander ) , Marchenko and others.
1938 - the status of city .