The city of Buchach and its Region

The city of Buchach and its Region is a historical and memoiristical collection in the Ukrainian language containing information about the history, geography, culture, economy, administrative structure and other information about Buchach and all the other towns and villages of present Buchach and Monastyryska Raion.

Consisting of one volume published in 1972, it was printed іn Great Britain by Ukrainian Publishers Limited.

Synopsis of the Publication

The collection of historical memoirs about Butchach and the areas surrounding Butchach contains very rich information about the city of Butchach, the towns of Monastyryska, Barysh, Yazlivets, and Zolotyy Potik, and eighty villages. These are treated from the standpoint of prehistory, history, and the contemporary age by authors who are scholars, writers of memoirs, and eyewitnesses of various events which took place during their last years in their native land before they went into exile and settled in the free world, mainly in North and South America. The scholarly works and memoirs are interwoven with poems, essays, and short sketches written by the natives of Butchach and Its surrounding Areas, in this way creating a pleasing mosaic of accounts or memoirs, enjoyable to the former inhabitants of the Region of Butchach and to the readers of the book, which contains the history of a part of Ukraine.

— Prof. Wasyl Lew, The city of Butchach and its Region

Sources

• Бучач і Бучаччина. Історично-мемуарний збірник / ред. колегія Михайло Островерха та інші. — Ню Йорк — Лондон — Париж — Сидней — Торонто: НТШ, Український архів, 1972. — Т. XXVII. — 944 с. — (іл). (in Ukrainian)