A shelter-nursery for children was opened in Kopaigorod in 1901 by the Mogilev District Guardianship, at the expense of local landowners.

The Podilskyi Diocesan Information journal (1862–1905), provided information about the church of Romanka in the Kopaigorod parish, which belonged to the Kopaigorod church. Members of the church and parish care were: Ananiy Moskalchuk, Stefan Hrynchyshyn, Stefan Vasylkiv, Vasyl Ostapchuk, Fyodor Kushnir, and Fyodor Dolynny (1878). Parishioner representatives who monitored church funds were: Fedir Kostyuk, and Oleksiy Basko (1891). Church elders were Luka Dolynsky (1878), Yakiv Noga (1885), Demyan Dolynny (1891), Myron Shportii (1894), and Leontiy Vityuk (1903). Church and parish school teachers were: Dmytro Vasylkivskyi (1883), Humennyi Omelyan (1890), Yakiv Soltyskyi (1890), Babak Tymofiy (1890), Tanasiuk Foma (1894).

The magazine, Orthodox Podillia (1906–1917) reported information about the village of Romanovka. Priest: Zaslavsky Porfiry (1914); psalmists: Thomas Tanasiuk (1914–1917), and Login Golinsky (1916–1917); church elders: Myro Bohach (1909; 1913), Vytyuk Onufriy Fedorovych (1916), Petro Fartushinskyi (1917); teachers of the church and parish school: Thomas Tanasiuk (1907), P. Yakimlyuk (1911). (DaViO F.177 op.1 Sp.835, 837, 1795–1800)

According to the additional revision of the peasants, the following were registered in the city of Kopaigorod: Pastuh, Shmondii, Kukuruza, Vinnyk. Peasants who gave a sworn promise to the church: Pylyp Kurylivskyi, Roman Slobodianyk, Gavrilo Namanyuk, Yakiv Folyushnik, Semen Shport, Pantelimon Shvets, Oleksii Shvets, Yosyp Shvets, Ivan Shvets, Ivan Bodnar, Andriy Shvets, and Semen Mykytovych. Priest: Semen Krupskyi, his assistant - Lozynskyi.

According to additional Revizskiye Skazk, the church ministers in Kopaigorod are listed as Catholics: Groletskyi, Maletskyi, Gurskyi, Halytsyn; Orthodox: Tsimbalist, Shmondii, Slobodnyk.

In September 1902, an auction was to be held at Bar and Kopaigorod stations for renting buffets for the period from January 1, 1903 to January 1, 1906.

There were instances when goods that had been ordered to be shipped were not picked up by the consignee from the station for a certain time. According to the provisions of the railway charter, all unreceived cargo (goods) were put up for public auction every year. Thus, in 1900, ten poods of wooden pitchforks were sent from Kopaigorod on Belts, and confectionery products were sent to Kyiv. 2.2 poods of textile products were sent from Łódź to Kopaigorod. All these goods were refused to be received. And on November 22, 1906, the management of the South-Western Railway at Kopaigorod station announced auctions of goods not received by entrepreneurs: seven wagons of wheat, one wagon of peas and one wagon of rye.

On March 20, 1910, due to heavy snowdrifts, the train stopped for two hours at the Kopay station. And the melting of the snow led to the flooding of the railway track at a distance of 50 versts (53.34 km) between the Bar station and Kopaigorod stations. The movement of trains along the entire line was conducted very poorly. Those were the difficulties of winters.

Elections of deputies to the Zemstvo administration were held in the town of Mogilev-Podolsk on July 13, 1911. The landowner S.I. Bogutskyi was elected from Kopaigorod.

In 1911, a decision by the provincial committee on small credit allowed the opening of a loan and savings association in Kopaigorod.

In 1912, 42,000 poods of fruit were exported from Bar, and 21,000 poods from Kopaigorod.

In November 1922, an article in the newspaper, Izvestia of the Podolsky District Executive Committee, stated that in the Zhmerynka District, after some organizational work with komnezems (poor peasants) and the management apparatus of volosts, work with parishes was established. The best work was done in the Kopaigorod Volost, which was awarded the Red Banner.

In 1923, agricultural credit societies were founded in Kopaigorod, Bar, Kosharyntsi, and Podlisny Yaltushkiv, which were part of the Podilskyi Silbank (agricultural bank). The Board of Silbank held annual reporting meetings for these credit societies. Such meetings were to be held in Kopaigorod on November 1, 1925.

There is an interesting record from World War I among the vital records of the Kopaigorod church. In 1915, Austrian prisoner I. Zahary died from a wound at Kopay station. He was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Kopaigorod. The funeral ceremony was conducted by the priest A. Piontkovskyi.

The record indicates the death of an Austrian prisoner in 1915

The Mogilev Regional Finance Department sent Senkevich to work as a financial inspector in Kopaigorod. He never went to the villages of the district in five months. Therefore, in order to resolve urgent issues, the villagers had to travel 12-15 versts to get to this inspector. Many of the sole proprietors in the district worked without patents. Tenants of gardens, land and speculators traded fruit and livestock in dozens of wagons. Many different contractors worked, but they did not pay taxes. However, Senkevich did not pay attention to it, and neither did the Regional Finance Department.

A committee of the society of poor peasants organized an agricultural community called Nezamozhnik in the Kopaigorod Volost. Its founders were all of the 2,820 poor people who were organized in the parish. The charter was approved as an agricultural credit society. The share was fixed at 2 poods and 20 pounds and an entrance fee of 20 pounds, with the entrance fee of 20 pounds and the share 20 pounds to be paid during February and the rest after harvest. This organization of the poor gave an opportunity, with the joint help of all those united, to do good work. And indeed, people were just getting lost in the pile, and they were already engaged in the beet business and wanted to sow 50 acres of beets for the sugar factory. In the future, the company planned to increase the sugar area. The Kopaigorod Agricultural Society was a large organized economic force.

Nadiya Mykolaivna Grebenyuk was a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR of the first convocation (1938). She was born in 1908 in Kyiv. Her father worked as a watchman in the electrical company, her mother was a housewife. Before the revolution, Nadiya studied at the gymnasium. In 1917, the family moved from Kyiv to Kopaigorod, which was her mother's homeland. Nadiya married in 1929, and together with her husband, worked in a collective farm at various jobs. In 1930–1934, she managed the poultry farm of the New Life collective farm in the village of Chervone, now Hrabivtsi. In 1934–1935, she attended eight-months of animal husbandry courses. After finishing the courses, she worked as a foreman on a livestock farm. In 1935–1937, she was in charge of the poultry and pig farm of the collective farm “New Life”. In 1937–October 1938, she served as a district expert in animal husbandry (zootechnician) of the Kopaigorod District Land Department. On June 26, 1938, Nadiya was elected a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR of the first convocation in the Kopaigorod electoral district No. 38 of Vinnytsia region. From October 15, 1938 to July 3, 1941, she was the head of the health care department of the executive committee of the Kopaigorod District Council of Workers' Deputies. She had become a member of the CPSU(b) in 1939. During the Second World War, she was evacuated to the village of Serhiivsk in the Kuibyshev region, where she was the head of the district magistrate. Her husband died at the front in 1943, leaving behind Nadiya and their three children. In May 1944, Grebenyuk returned to Kopaigorod, and, as of March 1945, she worked as the head of the health care department of the executive committee of the Kopaigorod District Council of Workers' Deputies of the Vinnytsia region. Her further fate is unknown. (Nadiya Mykolaivna Grebenyuk. Account card and autobiography of a member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR // TsDAVO of Ukraine, f. R-1, item 31, file 3, sheet 160–162).

In September 1941, an article in the newspaper, Vinnytsia Visti, reported on the plan for sowing winter crops for the harvest of 1942 in the Kopaigorod district, including: winter rapeseed - 950 hectares, rye - 2600 hectares, wheat - 7900 hectares.

Pavlo Demenchuk, after whom a street in the town is named, was born in Kopaigorod in 1919. He was a pilot and a unit commander. He rammed his plane into an enemy bomber 25 km away from the city of Medyn in the Kaluga region on August 20, 1941, and died in that operation. Military sources reported:

Lieutenant Demenchuk Pavel Vasilyevich (1919–20.08.1941) died a brave death in battles for the Soviet Homeland. He was 22 years old. He graduated from the 8^th Odessa Military Aviation School of Pilots named after P. D. Osypenko. Lieutenant P. V. Demenchuk served as unit commander for the 24th Fighter Aviation Regiment (6th Fighter Aviation Corps, Moscow Air Defense Zone), and was a candidate for membership of the Communist Party of Ukraine (b). On August 20, 1941, he was patrolling the airspace in the area of the city of Maloyaroslavets. At 5:30 p.m., he discovered a unit of fascist bombers heading for Moscow. Despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, Demenchuk started the battle. He managed to shoot down an enemy plane Xe-111 with machine gun fire. It crashed into the ground near the village of Nekrasovo, 25 km northwest of the city of Medyna, and burned. Demenchuk himself was seriously wounded, and he did not survive the ensuing battle. He attacked the second bomber - Yu-88 which caught him in the crosshairs. Demenchuk pulled the trigger, but no shots were fired. He ran out of cartridges.

Then Demenchuk decides to go for a battering ram. The crew of the plane they shot down jumped out with their parachutes and were captured. Demenchuk himself died under the ram. In total, he made 35 flights to cover Moscow from the air and support ground troops. He was buried near the village of Rusanovka, 4 km from the city of Borovsk, but his grave was destroyed by the Germans. By decree of the President of the USSR on October 5, 1990, he was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

Additional history about the community: on June 12, 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a number of orders regarding the determination of administrative centers and approval of the territories of oblast communities. As a result, 1,469 territorial communities were created in the country, including the Kopaigorod OTG.

The Kopaigorod settlement territorial community was formed by joining the Kopaigorod settlement council (Kopaigorod township, Shypynky village, Ukrainyske village, Shevchenkive village, Kopai village, Perelisky village, population 2993), village councils, namely:

– Verkhiv village council (the village of Verkhivka, the village of Primoshchanytsia with a population of 621.);
– Volodiivtsi village council (Volodiivtsi village, Maryanivka village with a population of 680);
– Karyshkiv village council (Karyshkiv village, Grabivtsi village with a population of 1,004 );
– Lisiv village council (Lisove village, Poleve village with a population of 570);
– Popovets village council (Popivtsi village, Kosharyntsi village, Vereshki village with a population of 1,800);
– Supivka village council (Supivka village, Barok village, Gubachivka village with a population of 390).

On the territory of the community there are six secondary schools, five preschool educational institutions, three dispensaries, eight health centers, thirteen clubs and cultural centers, and ten libraries.

As of January 1, 2021, 8,058 people lived in the community.

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