Stratyn used to be a town, and it had two parts which were usually referred as Startyn selo / Stratyn the village and Stratyn misto / Stratyn the city. There was a rathaus in Stratyn during Austrian times. Stratin is Russian name of the village, which is found on some maps from the Soviet period, while Stratyn is the Ukrainian and Polish name of this village. In Yiddish its name was Strettin / Staretin. The village is situated in the valley of a small river or brook, surrounded by forests and fields. In 1932, when Stratyn was part of Poland, the town status of Stratyn was canceled by the order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland. Prior to this order, Stratyn had just 373 inhabitants and at the time was the smallest town in the entire Ivano-Frankivsk province. Nowadays, Stratyn is a large village, about 12 km from the district center of Rohatyn.
In this village, around 1600, there was opened one of the first printing houses in Ukraine. The printers who used to work here included Hedeon Balaban, Pamvo Berynda. It was namely in 1599 that the third printshop in Ukraine was founded in the village of Stratyn, and another was established in the village of Krylos, near Halych. There is monument to the Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko in Startyn. The last was erected quite recently, after the collapse of Soviet system.
Stratyn had a Jewish community, that gave name to the Stretiner Hasidic dynasty. At the Jewish cemetery of Startyn there is a grave chapel of Stratyn tsaddik, of so-called Strettener Chasids. Chapel was erected quite recently with efforts being led by R Aharon Yakov Brandwein the previous stretiner Rebba of Borough Park. With much help from the Lviv Jewish Community. In the adjacent table, it is written in Ukrainian to the local village people to honour the place of Jewish righteous zaddiks who will pray for you. To restore these grave monuments of Hassidic tsaddiks, it took much efforts and diligence, as they were deep underneath in the ground already. Prayer books in Hebrew are available in the chapel. The most known Stratyn Hassidic rabbis were rabbi Avrohom of Stretin, rabbi Yehudah Tzvi of Stretin and the holy Admor R' Moshe of Stretin.
