[1] It was a Jewish agricultural colony established in 1844, but today is mostly populated by ethnic Ukrainians.

It was the largest and most prosperous agricultural colony near Derazhnia, at one point in the late 19th century it had a population of over 700.

Due to periodic pogroms and to impoverished conditions in the first two decades of the 20th century, many residents emigrated to the United States (and some to Israel).

Those who settled in America formed a burial society, Yiddish Meidan Verein, purchased a plot in Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York, where many of the early immigrants are buried.

In 1941, the remaining residents of Staryi Maidan were moved to the Derazhnia ghetto and eventually shot to death by the Nazis.