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