In 1930 the Vasylivska Village Council consisted of v. "Vasylivka" (the collective farm named Petrovsky) and v. Brats'ke (the collective farm named Stalin). The land was cultivated by horses and oxen, sheaves were driven on wagons, grain was threshed with Garman (hewn stone). During Holodomor 1931–1933 years the villagers for surviving had to eat mushrooms, soybeans, tonkonih, press cake, to pick up spikelets, acacia blossoms, horse dock, of which matorzhenyky (a kind of shortcake) were baked, zatirka (a soup with flour) was cooked. Members of collective farms were given of flour per family a month and one cup of milk a day.