Salnitsa (village)

Previously, another name was used - Salnikh , in the Polish annals one can find Salints . ^[one]

In the 16th century, the small village of Salnitsa was located at this place, through which the “ Black Way ” passed - the path by which the Crimean and Budzhak Tatars usually made their attacks on Volyn . To protect against the Tatars in 1607, it was decided to build a city here, ^[1] whose residents received Magdeburg law ^[2] and were exempted from taxes for 20 years. ^[one]

In 1665 Salnitsa was heavily devastated by the Cossacks, after which she remained uninhabited for a long time. In 1776 there were only 60 houses in the city. ^[one]

At the end of the XIX century Salnitsa was a provincial city of Litinsky district, Podolsk province . Cheremisovka suburb adjoined the city. The population of the city was 3,701 people, mostly engaged in farming and farming, trade in the city was developed slightly. ^[one]

According to the census of 1897, Salnitsa's population was 3,699 people, the dominant nationalities were Little Russians (74.6%) and Jews (24.3%). ^[3]

The population of the 2001 census was 2497 people.

In 1607, a coat of arms was presented to the city, depicting "... one bare hand, and the second covered with armor and a bow with a stretched arrow." ^{[4] [5]}

In 1864, B. Kene developed a draft of the new coat of arms of the city with the image of a ram's head with red eyes and tongue in a red field, as a sign that the inhabitants of this area were engaged in sheep farming. In the free part was the coat of arms of the Podolsk province. The shield was crowned with a red city crown with three turrets and framed with two golden spikelets entwined with the Alexander Ribbon. The project was not approved. ^{[6] [7]}

In the village, the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God of the Khmelnytsky Prosperity of the Vinnitsa Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church operates ^[8] .

Flor Yevstafyevich Stolyarchuk (1906—1944) - Soviet officer, tankman, Hero of the Soviet Union was born in Salnitsa.

22022, Vinnytsia region, Khmelnitsky rn, with. Salnitsa, st. Lenin, 38, tel. 35-1-31. Code KOATUU - 0524886101.

• Salnitsa on the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (ukr.)
• Salnitsa, city // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.