According to legend, the village, which was the predecessor of Skalat, was destroyed by the Tatars in the second half of the 15th century. Around 1545 a new village appeared on the site of the destroyed settlement, which was later called eventually became known as Staryi Skalat, unlike
Skalat. In the middle of the 17th century, during the National Liberation Revolution led by
Bohdan Khmelnytsky,
Maksym Kryvonis' Cossack detachments were stationed in Staryi Skalat. ==Religion==