The ancient town of Bakota is located on the left bank of the Dniester River. In the XIII century the town was downgraded Bakota ("Region" in the Galicia-Volyn principality) administrative center, covering an area of ​​about ten hectares, and its population is about 2, 5 thousand. People. The first historical record of the city dates back to the year 1240.

During archaeological excavations in the ancient city have been found traces of ancient settlements in the late Paleolithic era, as well as the Neolithic. Then the remains were studied Slavic settlement Chernyakhov culture, which existed in the II-VI centuries. BC, the time of settlement of ancient Russia, as well as the remains of the ancient city and the Orthodox monastery rocky period of XII-XIII centuries.

In 1431, when Lithuania and Poland have signed a truce, the city becomes the border. The result was the revolt of the population, in which landlords were killed, and declared independent territory of the city. Three years later, the revolt was brutally suppressed by the Polish army. Perpetrators rebellion punished, their houses burned, the castle was destroyed and the population dispersed. Thus, Bakota as the city ceased to exist.

In the following century, Bakota existed as a small village with a quiet pillar of life. Even such major events as the 1933 famine and the fighting of World War II, it was not touched. Although with the advent of Soviet power again became a border area (on the Dniester River was the border with Romania). Bakota finished its existence in 1981, when the construction of hydroelectric Novodnestrovskaya was decided to raise the water level in the Dniester, which resulted in the flooding of coastal villages.

Today Bakota is the part of the shore of the Dniester, which preserved the remains of a rock monastery.