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Explore the village’s past through publications, local research and community memory. Each date is linked to the account it comes from.
Wikipedia lists 1732 as the founding year. The supplied local toponymy study describes the origin of the village name as unknown. The story of a girl named Saliha and other proposed explanations are hypotheses, not established facts.
Mykola Riabyi’s account places the beginnings of the evangelical movement around these years. It mentions Oksentii Fedorenko, Ivan Riaboshapka and the first presbyter, Dmytro Kovalenko.
Riabyi reports the construction of a prayer house in 1923, its confiscation and closure in 1932, and community registration in 1944 following the resumption of worship.
The continuation describes acquiring land and laying foundations in 1993, building the walls and roof in 1995, and beginning worship in the finished prayer house in 1996.
Wikipedia mentions village native Yurii Petrovych Kryvobok (1981–2022), a Ukrainian serviceman killed during the Russian–Ukrainian war.