troitske traces its heritage to a sloboda settlement kalnivka (or kalynivka) when five families headed by a centurial aged peasant kalyna (nicknamed kalnyi) resettled in these lands out of urazova sloboda, valuiky county in voronezh governorate sometime in 1740-1750s. near kalynivka 2 versts towards urazova river settled some gypsy (tsyhan) who traded horses and was looking for unoccupied pasture lands. where he settled, there appeared a khutir (hamlet) tsyhanivskyi or tsyhanivka.