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Solotvyno (also Solotvina; ; ; or Faluszlatina; ; , Selotfine; ) is a rural settlement in Tiachiv Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, located adjacent to Romania, on the right bank of the Tisza opposite the Romanian city of Sighetu Marmației. The current population is
In March 1939 the area was invaded and annexed by Hungary. Almost the entire Jewish population was murdered in the Holocaust. In April 1944, Hungarian authorities established a ghetto in the Solotvino as part of the wider ghettoization of the region, confining Jews in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions that led to rampant starvation and disease.United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Ghettos.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ghettos. Accessed 27 July 2025. On 25 May 1944, the remaining Jews of Solotvino were deported on a single train carrying 3,317 people to Auschwitz, where the majority were murdered in gas chambers on arrival.United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Deportation of Hungarian Jews.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/deportation-of-hungarian-jews. Accessed 27 July 2025.
After World War II, Solotvino with the rest of Carpathian Ukraine became part of Ukraine in the Soviet Union. Under Soviet rule, Solotvyno's salt works were nationalized and integrated into the state-run Ukrsolprom, with extraction peaking at 451,000 tonnes per year in the 1970s, representing around 10% of Ukraine's total salt production. Speleotherapy, pioneered in Solotvyno during Soviet times, saw the 1968 founding of an experimental allergological hospital in Mine No. 8, with Mine No. 9’s underground chambers officially opened in 1976 to treat asthma and other respiratory diseases as a sanctioned USSR medical therapy.
According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the majority of the population in the city is Romanian. In 2001, 56.97% of the 8,956 inhabitants spoke Romanian as their native language, while 14.54% spoke Ukrainian, 24.3% Hungarian, and 3.18% Russian. Until 26 January 2024, Solotvyno was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Solotvyno became a rural settlement.
The territory of the village has a flat relief. The climate is temperate continental with warm summers and mild winters. South-westerly winds prevail throughout the year.
The Solotvino rock salt deposit is located near the village of Solotvino.
The settlement is the final stop of the Ukrainian section of the railway, which runs from Lviv to Transcarpathia.Постанова Кабінету Міністрів України від 30 січня 2019 року № 55 «Про затвердження переліку автомобільних доріг загального користування державного значення» Retrieved 2025-06-28
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