Bear Ear (village)

For the first time, the village was mentioned during the National Liberation War of the Ukrainian people . At first, the lands were part of the Vinnitsa headman, then they passed into the possession of Nikolai Grokholsky , who at one time headed the Podolsk nobility. Later, the village passed into the possession of the royal treasury. The villagers were protected from the encroachments of the landowners and paid taxes to the king. The peasants were mainly engaged in cattle breeding and agriculture, some of them were masons and carpenters.

Before the reform of 1861, almost all the land (75 hectares) belonged to the Brailovsky monastery , the church. In 1863, the school was founded ^[1] . In 1885, it was a former proprietary village within the Yuzvinsky volost , in which 826 people lived and there were 127 households, as well as an Orthodox church, a school (survived to this day) and an guesthouse ^[2] . According to data in 1900, 1,562 people lived in the Bear’s Eye.

In 1921, the charter of the agricultural association "Association of Workers and Peasants" was approved. In 1922, primary and cultural educational institutions were opened: an artistic group, a reading room. In 1923, a nursery for 20 children was opened. In 1928, the Red Garden, a cooperative society for the cultivation of beets, was founded. In 1929-30, a collective farm named after Dzerzhinsky was created, the main specialization of which was cattle breeding and agriculture.

From July 22, 1941 to March 20, 1944, the Bear Ear was occupied by the Nazis. 83 men were driven to forced robots in Germany. There were no fights in the village.

The well-known underground worker Maria Zagrebelnaya (who worked in the Russian school No. 3 of the city of Bar and died in January 1944 in Zhmerynka ^{[3]) was born} in the village . In 1950, the Petrovsky collective farm was established, specializing in gardening, cattle breeding and agriculture. m was created Podolsk research station of gardening, which was engaged in the cultivation of fruit crops and the cultivation of new varieties ^[4] .

In the village there is the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Vinnitsa District Deanery of the Vinnitsa Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ^[5] .

23226, Vinnytsia region, Vinnytsia district, s. Bear Bear, st. School, 10; tel. 58-13-18.

• Bear Ear on the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)