Staryi Saltiv

Staryi Saltiv (Ukrainian: Старий Салтів, Russian: Старый Салтов) is an urban-type settlement in Chuhuiv Raion of Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine. It is located on the right bank of the Donets which is dammed here as Pechenyhi Reservoir. Staryi Saltiv hosts the administration of Staryi Saltiv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 3,394 (2021 est.)[2]

Staryi Saltiv
Старий Салтів (Ukrainian)
Старый Салтов (Russian)
Saltiv
Urban-type settlement
Staryi Saltiv
Location in Kharkiv Oblast
Staryi Saltiv
Location in Ukraine
Coordinates: 50°04′41″N 36°47′43″E
Country Ukraine
OblastKharkiv Oblast
RaionChuhuiv Raion
Population
 (2021)
 • Total3,394
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

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.

Until 18 July 2020, Staryi Saltiv belonged to Vovchansk Raion. 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.[3][4]

In the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Saltiv was occupied by Russian forces early in the invasion, and became the scene of renewed fighting in the Battle of Kharkiv (2022). In 2 May 2022, an American defense official corroborated Ukrainian defense officials that Staryi Saltiv was retaken by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.[5]

Economy

Transportation

The settlement is connected by roads with Kharkiv and with Vovchansk.

References
  1. "Старосалтовская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2021 / Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2021 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
  3. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  4. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  5. "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 3". Institute for the Study of War. 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
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