Former center solekopstva across Europe.Great salt mining here dates back to the 2nd century AD.
From ancient times to the salt mines, except serfs worked as sentenced to prison peasants from the surrounding villages.Life solekopiv largely dependent on the development of methods of extracting salt. The oldest and most primitive speeds were digging wells to a depth of 20 m After digging co nusopodibni or so-called. "Damn" pit (as deep as 140-150 m).
Maximum salt production came in the 1970's Annual production in 1970 - 451 thousand tons (10% productivity tion of USSR, 1960 - 326 000 tons).
Salt reserves - 3.5 billion tons.
Main products: salt in packages, iodized salt, salt-lyzunets, salt bricks.
From 14 March 1982 to mine salt mines is number 9 Solotvynska underground low-background laboratory of the Institute for Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences. Its radioactive background is one of the best in the world. It received priority results from the study of double beta decay of atomic nuclei, one of the best set of restrictions on the neutrino mass. The new nyzkofonovi scintillation detectors and spectrometers, including enriched isotopes for the study of rare processes of decay of atomic nuclei, check the laws of conservation of lepton, baryon and electric charges, the search for dark matter. World's first registered dvohneytrynnyy double beta decay of cadmium-116, the alpha decay of tungsten-180
At number 9 are mine underground space Ukrainian Allergic Hospital of Ministry of Health of Ukraine, where since 1968 speleoterapi used method (use of microclimate mine at a depth of about 300 m) for the treatment of asthma. Therapeutic effect of mine action creates air 10 times purer than the surface, and saturated bioactive aerosol of sodium chloride (salt).
In the mine number 8 - similar underground facilities Allergic Transcarpathian Regional Hospital.
To the west of the town are salt lakes, which are used for recreational purposes. The largest of these is Lake Kunigunda.
January 15, 2007 by the President of Romania and Ukraine (Yushchenko and Traian Basescu) inaugurated restored after many years of bridge over the Tisza.
Due to the irresponsible attitude to the mines in Continue years, in January 2011 in Solotvino there was another new failure at the mine number 8, which destroyed the power substation and compressor station SE "Solotvyno salt mine."In the danger zone trapped houses, life support systems and public infrastructure.