Staryi Saltiv

The village of Staryi Saltov is located on the right bank of the Pechenezhsky reservoir (the Seversky Donets river), 40 km east of Kharkov. Founded by the Cossacks in the 18th century. like the Saltov settlement. In 1704 a cathedral church was built. In the beginning. XX century. Near the neighboring village of Verkhniy Saltov, a settlement of the Iron Age (middle VIII - early X centuries) of the era of the Khazar Kaganate was discovered. According to the place of discovery, this archaeological culture was named Saltovskaya (a historical and archaeological reserve "Verkhniy Saltov" was created). In 1964, the Pechenezhskoye reservoir was created, which is called the Saltovsky Sea. On the banks of the reservoir in the vicinity of Staryy Saltov, there are many sanatoriums, recrea ...