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Bar: the history of the city

Bar: the history of the city

2006, 23 min

The issue of the program "Podilskyi Chasopis" tells about the history of the city of Bar, Vinnytsia region, its monuments, formation and development in different periods.

On the video: views of Bar; the Riv River; the Church of St. Anne; the Pokrovsky Monastery of the Benedictine Missionary Sisters; the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; fragments of the Bar Castle; a monument to M. S. Hrushevsky in Bar; Mykhailo Hrushevsky's publication "Bar Starostvo. Historical Essays of the 15th–18th Centuries"; a portrait of Bona Sforza; maps depicting Bar; the painting "Defense of Vinnytsia by Cossack and Burgher Units Led by Ivan Bohun from Polish-Noble Troops, March 1651"; the statue of St. Nicholas; St. Nicholas Square; the house where Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky lived; archival footage of war newsreels; an exposition of the period of World War II; archival photographs of the city; a publication by the poet Olena Savinkova (in russian).

Commentators: local historian Mykola Yoltukhivskyi; World War II veteran Borys Lyubunya; World War II veteran, honorary citizen of Bar Pavlo Melnyk; poet Olena Savinkova (speaks in russian).