diff --git a/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/settings/ClickHouseConnectionSettings.java b/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/settings/ClickHouseConnectionSettings.java
index 202574fed..c4451efe7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/settings/ClickHouseConnectionSettings.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/settings/ClickHouseConnectionSettings.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ public enum ClickHouseConnectionSettings implements DriverPropertyCreator {
 
 
     KEEP_ALIVE_TIMEOUT("keepAliveTimeout", 30 * 1000, ""),
+    REUSE_CONNECTIONS("reuseConnections", false, ""),
 
     /**
      * for ConnectionManager
diff --git a/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/settings/ClickHouseProperties.java b/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/settings/ClickHouseProperties.java
index ecf08fa4e..dea27b4f3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/settings/ClickHouseProperties.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/settings/ClickHouseProperties.java
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public class ClickHouseProperties {
     private Boolean insertDeduplicate;
     private Boolean insertDistributedSync;
     private Boolean anyJoinDistinctRightTableKeys;
-
+    private boolean reuseConnections;
 
     public ClickHouseProperties() {
         this(new Properties());
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ public ClickHouseProperties(Properties info) {
         this.connectionTimeout = (Integer)getSetting(info, ClickHouseConnectionSettings.CONNECTION_TIMEOUT);
         this.dataTransferTimeout = (Integer)getSetting(info, ClickHouseConnectionSettings.DATA_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT);
         this.keepAliveTimeout = (Integer)getSetting(info, ClickHouseConnectionSettings.KEEP_ALIVE_TIMEOUT);
+        this.reuseConnections = (Boolean)getSetting(info, ClickHouseConnectionSettings.REUSE_CONNECTIONS);
         this.timeToLiveMillis = (Integer)getSetting(info, ClickHouseConnectionSettings.TIME_TO_LIVE_MILLIS);
         this.defaultMaxPerRoute = (Integer)getSetting(info, ClickHouseConnectionSettings.DEFAULT_MAX_PER_ROUTE);
         this.maxTotal = (Integer)getSetting(info, ClickHouseConnectionSettings.MAX_TOTAL);
@@ -172,6 +173,7 @@ public Properties asProperties() {
         ret.put(ClickHouseConnectionSettings.CONNECTION_TIMEOUT.getKey(), String.valueOf(connectionTimeout));
         ret.put(ClickHouseConnectionSettings.DATA_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT.getKey(), String.valueOf(dataTransferTimeout));
         ret.put(ClickHouseConnectionSettings.KEEP_ALIVE_TIMEOUT.getKey(), String.valueOf(keepAliveTimeout));
+        ret.put(ClickHouseConnectionSettings.REUSE_CONNECTIONS.getKey(), String.valueOf(reuseConnections));
         ret.put(ClickHouseConnectionSettings.TIME_TO_LIVE_MILLIS.getKey(), String.valueOf(timeToLiveMillis));
         ret.put(ClickHouseConnectionSettings.DEFAULT_MAX_PER_ROUTE.getKey(), String.valueOf(defaultMaxPerRoute));
         ret.put(ClickHouseConnectionSettings.MAX_TOTAL.getKey(), String.valueOf(maxTotal));
@@ -239,6 +241,7 @@ public ClickHouseProperties(ClickHouseProperties properties) {
         setConnectionTimeout(properties.connectionTimeout);
         setDataTransferTimeout(properties.dataTransferTimeout);
         setKeepAliveTimeout(properties.keepAliveTimeout);
+        setReuseConnections(properties.reuseConnections);
         setTimeToLiveMillis(properties.timeToLiveMillis);
         setDefaultMaxPerRoute(properties.defaultMaxPerRoute);
         setMaxTotal(properties.maxTotal);
@@ -527,6 +530,14 @@ public void setKeepAliveTimeout(int keepAliveTimeout) {
         this.keepAliveTimeout = keepAliveTimeout;
     }
 
+    public boolean getReuseConnections() {
+        return reuseConnections;
+    }
+
+    public void setReuseConnections(boolean reuseConnections) {
+        this.reuseConnections = reuseConnections;
+    }
+
     public String getUser() {
         return user;
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/util/ClickHouseHttpClientBuilder.java b/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/util/ClickHouseHttpClientBuilder.java
index 83047cd06..3416084d5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/util/ClickHouseHttpClientBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ru/yandex/clickhouse/util/ClickHouseHttpClientBuilder.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package ru.yandex.clickhouse.util;
 
+import org.apache.http.ConnectionReuseStrategy;
 import org.apache.http.Header;
 import org.apache.http.HeaderElement;
 import org.apache.http.HeaderElementIterator;
@@ -13,7 +14,9 @@
 import org.apache.http.conn.socket.PlainConnectionSocketFactory;
 import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
 import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
+import org.apache.http.impl.NoConnectionReuseStrategy;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultClientConnectionReuseStrategy;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
 import org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager;
 import org.apache.http.message.BasicHeader;
@@ -59,6 +62,7 @@ public ClickHouseHttpClientBuilder(ClickHouseProperties properties) {
     public CloseableHttpClient buildClient() throws Exception {
         return HttpClientBuilder.create()
                 .setConnectionManager(getConnectionManager())
+                .setConnectionReuseStrategy(createReuseStrategy())
                 .setKeepAliveStrategy(createKeepAliveStrategy())
                 .setDefaultConnectionConfig(getConnectionConfig())
                 .setDefaultRequestConfig(getRequestConfig())
@@ -115,25 +119,38 @@ private Collection<Header> getDefaultHeaders() {
         return headers;
     }
 
-    private ConnectionKeepAliveStrategy createKeepAliveStrategy() {
-        return new ConnectionKeepAliveStrategy() {
+    private ConnectionReuseStrategy createReuseStrategy() {
+        return properties.getReuseConnections() ? new DefaultClientConnectionReuseStrategy() {
+
             @Override
-            public long getKeepAliveDuration(HttpResponse httpResponse, HttpContext httpContext) {
-                // in case of errors keep-alive not always works. close connection just in case
+            public boolean keepAlive(HttpResponse httpResponse, HttpContext context) {
                 if (httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
-                    return -1;
+                    return false;
                 }
+                boolean keepAliveHeaderFound = false;
                 HeaderElementIterator it = new BasicHeaderElementIterator(
                         httpResponse.headerIterator(HTTP.CONN_DIRECTIVE));
                 while (it.hasNext()) {
                     HeaderElement he = it.nextElement();
                     String param = he.getName();
-                    //String value = he.getValue();
                     if (param != null && param.equalsIgnoreCase(HTTP.CONN_KEEP_ALIVE)) {
-                        return properties.getKeepAliveTimeout();
+                        keepAliveHeaderFound = true;
+                        break;
                     }
                 }
-                return -1;
+                if (!keepAliveHeaderFound) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+                return super.keepAlive(httpResponse, context);
+            }
+        } : new NoConnectionReuseStrategy();
+    }
+
+    private ConnectionKeepAliveStrategy createKeepAliveStrategy() {
+        return new ConnectionKeepAliveStrategy() {
+            @Override
+            public long getKeepAliveDuration(HttpResponse httpResponse, HttpContext httpContext) {
+                return properties.getKeepAliveTimeout();
             }
         };
     }