[3] Kuty is often associated with Kitów, Poland, as both settlements have historic familial connections, both communities suffered the destruction of their Jews during the Holocaust,[4] both are the originators of the Kitowski surname,[5] and the two towns share a placename in Polish.

[6] Over time the settlement grew and in 1715 at the request of Jan Potocki, the voivod of Kiev, King Augustus II the Strong granted it a town charter.

With expansion and the proximity of Bukovina, the town became the seat of a starost in the region of Halych and an administrative centre within the Ruthenian Voivodship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

As a result, its economic growth halted and Kuty remained a provincial backwater inhabited mostly by Jewish and Armenian merchants.

From the 19th-century onwards, Kuty acquired fame as a holiday resort owing to its picturesque location, on a river surrounded by hills and blessed with a balmy climate.

The local Armenian school operated until the 1860s as the only one that was not dissolved by the Austrian authorities shortly after the Partitions of Poland.

[9] After the collapse of the Central Powers in 1918 the town was briefly under the control of the West Ukrainian People's Republic.

Among the last soldiers to be killed by the Red Army in heavy fighting for the bridge was the notable Polish writer, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz.