 It was a single village named Szelmenc (between 1919–1938 it was called Slemence) before 1945.From 1919 until 1945, Szelmenc bore the same history as Subcarpathian Rus'.It was first ceded to Czechoslovakia in 1919, then after the First Vienna Award in 1938 it returned to the Kingdom of Hungary, then back, then, after the Soviet-Czechoslovak Treaty in 1945 was partially ceded to the Soviet Union along with Subcarpathian Rus'.