Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bolhrad an kafa shi ne a 1821 ta bakin 'yan Bulgarian a Bessarabia, a karkashin jagorancin Janar Ivan Inzov wanda mazaunan Bolhrad ke "girmamawa" a matsayin "Mai kafa Birninmu". Bolhrad ya zama wani ɓangare na Moldavia daga 1856 zuwa 1859, Romania daga 1859 zuwa 1878, 1918 zuwa 1940, da 1941 zuwa 1944, kafin a haɗa shi
a cikin USSR (a cikin yankin Ukrainian SSR), kuma daga baya ya zama mai zaman kanta Ukraine. A shekarar 1921, an kai harin ta'addanci a fadar da ke birnin.