Khmelnytskyi region, Koliyivshchyna, the Chyhyryn conspiracy, the Secret Brotherhood, peasant uprisings during the First Russian Revolution – all this is the background to the Kholodny Yar organisation of the early 20th century. And a new armed force was created on the same lands, in the same villages, towns and cities as the Koliivshchyna: in Medvedivka, Melnyky, Buda, Zhabotyn, Bilozirya, Smila...