In 1951, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the city was renamed Novhorodske. In timesduring the soviet industrialization industry developed in the city, was completed and modernized The Dzerzhinsky phenol plant ; was also built Novgorod Machine-Building Plant named after G.I. Petrovsky, after the collapse of the USSR he ceased to exist, workshops and other buildings were sold out; various production facilities were organized in some, others were mothballed; three workshops were dismantled for building materials.
