Staryi Saltiv (, ) is a

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. It is located on the right bank of the

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, which is dammed here as Pechenyhi Reservoir. Staryi Saltiv hosts the administration of Staryi Saltiv settlement hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population: The name of the village is eponymously derived from the folklore word of Turkic origin "saltan", aka "sultan" in English. Most likely there was a proto-city here founded in the Middle Ages under the Khazar Kaghanate.

History

The town of Saltiv was first mentioned as an old settlement in the ''Book of the Great Drawing'' in 1627, and in 1639 it was inhabited by the Cossacks of Hetman Yakov Ostryanytsia. With their departure in 1641, Saltiv is again mentioned as a settlement on the high right bank of the

Seversky Donets The Seversky Donets () or Siverskyi Donets (), usually simply called the Donets (), is a river on the south of the East European Plain. It originates in the Central Russian Upland, north of Belgorod, flows south-east through Ukraine (Kharkiv ...

River and only in 1650 Chuhuiv villagers began to serve here. In 1652, a royal decree settled 19 boyar children. In 1660, a new wooden fort was built on the old settlement and the old stone foundations of the ancient Khazar fortress. According to data for 1864 in the state settlement, the center of Starosaltivska volost of Vovchansky district, 2544 people lived (1254 males and 1290 females), there were 448 households, there was an Orthodox church, distillery and brick factories, 4 annual fairs. As of 1914, the population had grown to 6,538. The village suffered as a result of the

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of the Ukrainian people, carried out by the USSR government in 1932–1933. The number of identified victims was 219 people. Until 18 July 2020, Staryi Saltiv belonged to

Vovchansk Raion Vovchansk Raion () was a raion (district) in Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the town of Vovchansk. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raio ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kharkiv Oblast to seven. The area of Vovchansk Raion was merged into Chuhuiv Raion. In the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

, Saltiv was occupied by Russian forces early in the invasion, and became the scene of renewed fighting in the

Battle of Kharkiv (2022) The battle of Kharkiv was a military engagement that took place from February to May 2022 in and around the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine, as part of the eastern Ukraine offensive during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kharkiv, located just sou ...

. In 2 May 2022, an American defense official corroborated Ukrainian defense officials that Staryi Saltiv was retaken by the

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. Until 26 January 2024, Staryi Saltiv was designated as an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Staryi Saltiv became a rural settlement.

Economy

Transportation

The settlement is connected by roads with

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

and with

Vovchansk Vovchansk (, ; ) is a destroyed city in Chuhuiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, northeastern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of . The Vovcha river, a tributary of the Donets river, runs through the city. Vovchansk had a population of However, th ...

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