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Regeneration of a cuckoo on an apple branch As a desire to revive Bar ceramics, it united those who cared and opened new perspectives for community development. Who would have thought that in the distant 1970s a promising student of the Leningrad State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I. Repin, Vladimir Tytarenko will accidentally come across samples of Bar ceramics in the Russian Ethnographic Museum. The future art critic was not just surprised, but shocked, because in his native Vinnytsia region at that time no one knew anything about this fragile art. The history of Bar ceramics was lost before the Second World War, and the industry itself declined until the middle of the last century. Then Volodymyr Tytarenko enthusiastically undertook to restore justice in order to restore the glory of Bar ceramics, which at one time decorated the tables not only of Ukrainian burghers, but also of nobles from Germany, Romania, and Turkey. But when he returned to his native Vinnytsia, no one from the "top" supported the search and research of Volodymyr Tytarenko on the revival of Bar ceramics. At that time, neither the residents nor the local authorities of Bar showed any interest in their pottery. Even during the times of independent Ukraine, the situation has not changed much. The art critic no longer thought that anyone would ever need his search. Link to full material: https://day.kyiv.ua/uk/article/cuspilstvo/regeneraciya-zozuli-na-yabluneviy-gilci