The ancient city of Bakota is located on the left Bank of the Dniester river. In the XIII century the city Bakota was Pomisli (“region” in the Galicia-Volyn Principality) administrative center, occupied an area of about ten hectares, and a population of about 2, 5 thousand people. The first literary record of this city is dated to 1240.

During archaeological excavations in the ancient city were found traces of ancient settlements since the late Paleolithic and Neolithic. Then, we investigated the remains of a Slavic settlement Chernyakhiv culture that existed in II-VI centuries BC, the settlement of Ancient Russia, as well as the remains of the settlement and the Orthodox monastery of the XII-XIII centuries.

In 1431, when Lithuania and Poland signed the armistice, the city became frontier. The result was a popular uprising, during which the landlords were killed and the city declared independent. Three years later the rebellion was brutally suppressed the Polish troops. The perpetrators of the riot were punished, their houses burned, the castle was destroyed, and the population dispersed. Thus, Bakota as a town ceased to exist.

In subsequent centuries Bakota existed as a small settlement with a calm pillar of life. Even such large scale events such as the famine of 1933 and the fighting of the Second world war, not touch her. Although with the advent of Soviet power, the area again became a border (on the Dniester river was the border with Romania). Its existence Bakota graduated in 1981, when to build Novodnestrovsk HPP, it was decided to raise the water level in the Dniester river, which resulted in the flooding of coastal villages.

Today Baltoy call Bank of the Dniester, which preserved only the remains of the rock monastery.