Title: Bershad City Status: Included in the Gaysinsky district Location: Located on the river Dokhna 150 km. in the south-east of Vinnitsa. Population: 13,000 thousand people Area: 7.14 square meters. km. Waterways: River Dokhna, Berladynka. Founded: 1459 Historical note: The town Bershad, known since 1459 as a fortress with a six-meter shaft to the southern border of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It is known that osadchyi Zbarazhskogo Basil Bosyi Bershad put in a fortress, which later became the nest of local Cossacks. In 1617 Poland-Lithuania is facing the threat of attack by the Ottomans, who was deported to Ukraine of its best generals Iskender-Pasha. Bush was signed a contract in which the Polish side pledged to pay tribute to the Tatars, and not to interfere in the affairs of Moldavia, Transylvania and Wallachia, to prohibit the Cossacks came to the Black Sea, to destroy the border Cossack fortress Bershad and Rashkiv. In 1648, Bershad became hundreds of cities Uman Regiment. Cossacks regiment took part in military action against Poland. In 1793, the city went to the Russian Empire. In 1797, Bershad - county town of Podol province. In August 1918, there was proclaimed the Soviet regime. July 29, 1941 Bershad occupied by German and Romanian troops. They staged a Jewish getto, where Jews were kept of the city as well as imported from Bessarabia and Bukovina. March 14, 1944 the city was liberated by troops of the Second Ukrainian Front, the Soviet Army. Sights: Watchtower, museum.