The census from 1772-1773 alludes to a church in the village, which records dating to 1781 list as being dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God.

Along with the county councils of Bălți and Orhei, Soroca was among the first to ask for the newly proclaimed Moldavian Democratic Republic to unify with the Kingdom of Romania.

Although a Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed by the Bolsheviks as an autonomous part of Russian SFSR in 1919, it was abolished by the military forces of Poland and France in September of that year during the Polish–Soviet War.

The 1818 Statutory Law (Așezământul) of the Russian Governorate of Bessarabia mentions Jews as a separate state (social class), which was further divided into merchants, tradesmen, and land-workers.

At the same time, Jews from Podolia and Kherson Governorate were exempted from taxation for 5 years if they crossed the Dniester and relocated to Bessarabia.

Jews had become a significant part of Bessarabia’s agricultural life on the eve of the First World War, with major roles in its tobacco, wine, fruit, and dairy sectors.

The Soviets employed scorched earth tactics during their forced retreat from Bessarabia, destroying the infrastructure and transporting movable goods to Russia by railway.

There were cases of Romanian troops "taking revenge" on Jews in Bessarabia during this military operation, in the form of pogroms on civilians as well as the murder of Jewish POWs, resulting in several thousand dead.

Some claim that Romanian dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu preferred expulsion rather than extermination as the political solution to the "Jewish Question" in Romania.

However, that portion of the Jewish population of Bessarabia and Bukovina which did not flee before the retreat of Soviet troops (147,000) was initially gathered into ghettos or Nazi concentration camps, and then deported during 1941–1942 in death marches into Romanian-occupied Transnistria, where they perished as part of the "Final Solution".