The first mention of the settlement named Szatanów is in a charter by the Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło to Kraków's Podstoli Piotr Szafraniec.

[5] In 1905, another copy of the charter issued to Piotr Szafraniec was published by the Polish historian Franciszek Piekosiński.

It is mentioned in the works of Oleksandr Stepenko, Vartan Hryhoryan, Mykola Petrov, Ivan Rybak, and other historians.

For instance, Volodymyr Radzievsky and Vasyl Burma in the guide "Medobory" (second edition, 1975) write: "It is likely that the first information about Sataniv dates back to 1385.

[6] Similar categorical statements are made by the authors of the historical guide "100 Jewish towns" (second edition, 1998)[7] and the third issue of the reference publication "Who's Who in Khmelnytskyi" (2005),[8] which directly state that "the first chronicle mentions of Sataniv date back to 1385".

[9] In December 1886, a member of the Committee for the Church-Historical and Statistical Description of the Podillia Diocese, Ivan Shipovych, wrote in the "Podolskie Eparkhialnye Vedomosti":[10] A Jewish community was organized in Sataniv in the second half of the 16th century, in the Kingdom of Poland.

Jews in Sataniv were involved in the import of goods from the east, leasing of estates and customs dues, manufacture of alcoholic drinks, and goldsmithery.

The Jews there were involved in international commerce, traveling to fairs in Leipzig, Breslau, and Frankfurt, until the Second Partition of Poland of 1793, when Sataniv was incorporated into Russia.

The Hebrew writer and maskil Isaac Satanow lived in Sataniv, and was active there in the latter half of the 18th century.

He, Menachem Mendel Lefin, and Alexander b. Ẓevi Margaliot, all of whom also lived in the town, were among the pioneers of the Haskalah movement.