Kostyantynopil

The village was founded by Nadazovsky Greek settlers from Crimea,{{cite news|url=https://www.brecorder.com/news/40352030|title=Russia claims capture of another east Ukraine village|access-date=2024-03-30|date=2025-03-09|website=Business Recorder}} in Demirci yayla and in the villages of Alushta, Generalske, Malorichenske and Sonjachnogorske in 1779. The village received its name from the Constantinople that was the capital of the Byzantine Empire at its founding, which merited a great sacrifice known as a hecatomb (a sacrifice of two hundred bulls).

During the Soviet era, the village was home to the central estate of the Michurin collective farm. The artel has 2,115 hectares of arable land, including 200 hectares of irrigated land. The production area of the farm is meat and dairy farming and the cultivation of grain crops. The artel also engages in gardening and viticulture, which also includes the farming of melons. 5 workers of the collective farm have been awarded orders and medals.{{citation needed|date= March 2025}}

The village had an eight-year school, a library, and a veterinary clinic. A children's factory was opened, and household workshops were operating. There were 6 branches of the regional association "Agricultural Machinery".{{citation needed|date= March 2025}}

During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Kostyantynopil first came in proximity of hostilities between Russian and Ukrainian forces in February 2025. Russian forces first entered the village on February 27.{{Cite web|title=Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 27, 2025 |last1=Harward |first1=Christina |last2=Gasparyan |first2=Davit |last3=Gibson |first3=Olivia |last4=Mappes |first4=Grace |last5=Barros |first5=George |work=Institute for the Study of War |date=27 February 2025 |access-date=20 March 2025 | ref={{sfnref|Institute for the Study of War|2025}}|url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-27-2025}} Russian forces captured the village by March 9.{{Cite web|title=Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 9, 2025 |last1=Harward |first1=Christina |last2=Gasparyan |first2=Davit |last3=Gibson |first3=Olivia |last4=Mappes |first4=Grace |last5=Barros |first5=George |work=Institute for the Study of War |date=9 March 2025 | ref={{sfnref|Institute for the Study of War|2025}}|access-date=20 March 2025 |url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-9-2025}} On March 17, Ukrainian forces launched counterattack on the settlement, and have contested the village since.{{Cite web|title=Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 18, 2025 |last1=Harward |first1=Christina |last2=Gasparyan |first2=Davit |last3=Gibson |first3=Olivia |last4=Mappes |first4=Grace |last5=Barros |first5=George |work=Institute for the Study of War |date=18 March 2025 |access-date=20 March 2025 | ref={{sfnref|Institute for the Study of War|2025}}|url=https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-18-2025}}

According to data from 1859, the state village of Mariupol Greek District, Alexandrovsky Uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, had a population of 900 people (485 males and 415 females), 281 households, and an Orthodox church.Ekaterinoslav province with Taganrog city council. List of populated places according to the data of 1859 . Published by the Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Edited by the editor I. Vilson. 1859. — IV + 452 p., (p. 2418)

As of 1886, the Greek colony of Bogatyrsk volost, Mariupol Uzyed, Ekaterinoslav province, had a population of 1,107 people, 189 households, an Orthodox church, a school, 2 shops and 2 brick factories.Volosts and the most important settlements of European Russia. According to the data of the survey conducted by the statistical institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on behalf of the Statistical Council. Edition of the Central Statistical Committee. Issue VIII. The provinces of the Novorossiya group. Saint Petersburg. 1886. — p. 30

According to the 1897 census, the number of residents increased to 2,053 people (1,098 males and 955 females), of whom 2,034 were Eastern Orthodox.Populated places of the Russian Empire with 500 or more inhabitants with an indication of the total population available in them and the number of inhabitants of the predominant religion : according to the first universal census of 1897 / Ed. N. AND. Troynytskyi — S.-Pb. : Typography "Obshchestvennanaya polza": [steam typolitografiya NL Nyrkina], 1905. — S. 1-61. — X, 270, 120 p.

In 1908, the Greek settlement had a population of 2,423 (1,234 males and 1,189 females), and 360 households.Russian doref. List of populated places of Mariupol district of Ekaterinoslav province with attached map. Edition of Ekaterinoslavskaya Gubernay Zemskoy Upravy. Ekaterinoslav Typography of the Provincial Zemstvo. 1911 , (code 9-3)

According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the village's population was 1,076 people. The main languages of the village were:{{Cite web|url=http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=19A050501_02_014&ti=19A050501_02_014.%20%D0%EE%E7%EF%EE%E4%B3%EB%20%ED%E0%F1%E5%EB%E5%ED%ED%FF%20%E7%E0%20%F0%B3%E4%ED%EE%FE%20%EC%EE%E2%EE%FE%2C%20%C4%EE%ED%E5%F6%FC%EA%E0%20%EE%E1%EB%E0%F1%F2%FC%20%281%2C2%2C3%2C4%29&path=..%2FDatabase%2FCensus%2F05%2F01%2F&lang=1&multilang=uk|title=Розподіл населення за рідною мовою, Донецька область|access-date=2025-02-04|archive-date=2016-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305150244/http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/mult/dialog/varval.asp?lang=1&ma=19a050501_02_014&multilang=uk&path=..%2Fdatabase%2Fcensus%2F05%2F01%2F&ti=19a050501_02_014.%20%D0%EE%E7%EF%EE%E4%B3%EB%20%ED%E0%F1%E5%EB%E5%ED%ED%FF%20%E7%E0%20%F0%B3%E4%ED%EE%FE%20%EC%EE%E2%EE%FE%2C%20%C4%EE%ED%E5%F6%FC%EA%E0%20%EE%E1%EB%E0%F1%F2%FC%20%281%2C2%2C3%2C4%29|url-status=dead|language=Ukrainian}}

• Russian 75.84%
• Ukrainian 14.78%
• Greek 1.02%
• Moldovan (Romanian) 0.09%

• Maria Lukivna Osadchuk (born 1939) - a Ukrainian linguist.
• Naftaly Frenkel (1883-1960) - a well-known figure of the NKVD of the Soviet Union before the October Revolution - a famous Odesan millionaire, businessman and criminal authority, in Soviet times - a prisoner of the Solovki prison camp, later - the head of the construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal and the Baikal–Amur Mainline, the first head of the Chief Directorate of Railroad Construction Camps of the USSR.

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• History of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR . — K .: Main editorial office of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR . — 15,000 copies.

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