Bazar () is a village, a former town, in

Korosten Raion Korosten Raion () is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine borde ...

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, northern

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, which suffered from the

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with some populated places abandoned, after population evacuated and relocated.

History

Bazar is best known for the execution on November 22, 1921, of 359 soldiers of the

Ukrainian People's Army The Ukrainian People's Army (), also known as the Ukrainian National Army (UNA) or by the derogatory term Petliurivtsi (, ), was the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1921). They were often quickly reorganized units of the former I ...

, who refused to defect to the

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, during the final stages of the

Second Winter Campaign The Second Winter Campaign was a failed military campaign by the Ukrainian People's Republic, Ukrainian National Army in October and November 1921 against the Bolsheviks. It was the last campaign of the Ukrainian armed forces in post-World War I ...

. In 1941, an attempt was organised by Oleh Kandyba Olzhych to create a memorial to the fallen, however this was prevented by mass arrests by the occupying

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forces.

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{{Zhytomyr-geo-stub Villages in Korosten Raion Ovruchsky Uyezd