On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Stara Syniava became a rural settlement.

[8] Stara Syniava had a large Jewish population for nearly 300 years, having been given the status of shtetl.

During World War II, many Jewish residents were able to flee temporarily to Siberia and Uzbekistan, escaping extermination by the advancing German Army and Hitler's SS.

Many who remained behind were rounded up by the invaders and killed evidenced by a mass grave of Jews found in Stara Sinyava.

In the late 1970s Stara Syniava's Jewish population began emigrating from the USSR, largely to the U.S, Canada, and Israel.