Staryi Saltiv (Ukrainian: Старий Салтів, Russian: Старый Салтов) is a rural settlement in Chuhuiv Raion of Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine.

[2] The name of the village is eponymously derived from the folklore word of Turkic origin "saltan", aka "sultan" in English.

[citation needed] The town of Saltiv was first mentioned as an old settlement in the Book of the Great Drawing in 1627, and in 1639 it was inhabited by the Cossacks of Hetman Yakov Ostryanytsia.

With their departure in 1641, Saltiv is again mentioned as a settlement on the high right bank of the Seversky Donets River and only in 1650 Chuhuiv villagers began to serve here.

According to data for 1864 in the state settlement, the center of Starosaltivska volost of Vovchansky district, 2544 people lived (1254 males and 1290 females), there were 448 households, there was an Orthodox church, distillery and brick factories, 4 annual fairs.