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Monument to the victims of the terror of 1937-1938 in Vinnitsa. (sculptor: Yuri Kozeratsky)
In 1937-1938, the NKVD under the leadership of I. M. Korablev [25] carried out mass repressions in the Vinnitsa region as part of the Great Terror. In this Vinnitsa tragedy, 9-11 thousand people were victims of the NKVD. Among them were Ukrainians, Russians and Poles.

Vinnitsa on a postcard from the early 20th century
In 1923, Vinnitsa became the center of the district, and since 1932 it has been the administrative center of the Vinnitsa region.
From January 1924 to September 16, 1939, the administration of the 17th Rifle Corps of the Ukrainian Military District was located in the city, from May 1935 - the Kyiv Military District, from July 26, 1938 - the Kiev Special Military District. In 1924, the corps commanders B. M. Feldmor, J. F. Fabricius

On March 18, 1919, the city was occupied by the Red Army. On August 10, Vinnitsa was taken by parts of the Galician Army, subordinate to the UNR, but on November 17, it went over to the side of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia and was renamed the Ukrainian Galician Army (UGA). At the beginning of 1920, the UGA again changed sides and became part of the Red Army as the Red Ukrainian Galician Army (KUGA). On April 23, separate parts of the KUGA go over to the side of the UNR and their Polish allies

April 29 - December 14, 1918 provincial authorities of the Ukrainian state worked in the city. The city was the headquarters of the corps - the military district of the 2nd Podolsky corps of the Ukrainian state

On October 28, 1917, an armed uprising took place in Vinnitsa under the leadership of Lieutenant Zubrilin and Yevgenia Bosch, whose participants tried to transfer power to the revolutionary committee of workers' and soldiers' deputies, but the troops loyal to the Provisional Government, led by V. A. Kostitsyn, suppressed it relatively easily. On the night of November 1-2, with the active participation of Bosch in the 2nd Guards Corps, a Military Revolutionary Committee was formed, which sent parts of the corps to neighboring cities. November 2, Soviet power was established in Zhmerinka, November 4 - in Vinnitsa. In December 1917, the power of the Central Rada was established in Vinnitsa. During the Civil War, power in the city repeatedly changed hands. The government of the Ukrainian People's Republic worked in the city for some time. March 1, 1918 Vinnitsa is occupied by German troops.

Holy Transfiguration Cathedral. Architect Paolo Fontana.
In 1530, the royal commissioners determined the boundaries of the Vinnitsa Starostvo; the city already enjoyed the Magdeburg right, probably granted to it by the Grand Duke Alexander; the document mentions Vinnitsa Voyt - Yatsko Popenko [9] (the charters burned down in a fire in the castle in 1580, were restored in 1640).

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Grand Duke Alexander Jagiellon transferred the Vinnitsa eldership to the control of Prince Konstantin Ostrozhsky. In 1516, at the request of Konstantin Ostrozhsky, the eldership was transferred to his nephew, Prince Roman Andreevich Sangushko. After the death of Sangushko in a battle with the Tatars, the eldership returned to the possession of Prince Ostrozhsky and again, at his request, was transferred in 1522 to his son, Prince Ilya Konstantinovich

The first substantive news about Vinnitsa dates back to 1396, when Vladislav Jagiello, transferring the western Podolia to Spytka from Melshtyn, singled out Vinnitsa and left it in his charge[4]; Since that year, Vinnitsa was owned by the Grand Duke Vitovt.

The princes Koriatovichi built a castle on the banks of the Bug in the part of the city called "Old Vinnitsa", a castle (on a mountain above the Nicholas Church). The settlement of this castle existed until the end of the 19th century and was destroyed by quarries around 1890 (a skeleton (subdolichocephalus), two polished stone hatchets and a stone hammer were found under the castle in loess.

After the victory in 1362 of the army of Prince Olgerd over the army of the Mongol-Tatars, Podolia became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The nephews of Prince Olgerd, Fyodor and Konstantin Koriatovichi, began to build fortress cities on these lands. This was first mentioned in the documents of 1362. Under the name "Venichya" the city is mentioned in the chronicle "List of Russian cities near and far" (end of the 14th century).