How Vinnytsia Was Given Its Name
Task 1. Read the first part of the text. Say what versions about the origin of the name of the city are given in it.
Read again and fill in the gaps.
The history of the green city of Vinnytsia is fascinating. (1)___________ why this city has (2)_______ name? From this article you will find out why Vinnitsa received this name.
The first legend (3)________ the name of the city of Vinnytsia comes from the word "Vynnytsia". In ancient times this word (4)_______ a winery, because there were many of such places in the region at those times. (5)_______ scholars (6)_________ to believe that Vinnytsia derived from the word "Vyno", (7)______property (8) _______ a dowry for a wedding or inheritance. There is an equally interesting legend which (9) ________the name of a small river called Vinnychka to the city of Vinnitsa. It (10)__________ by Podil folklorist E.V. Gorb in 1959.
Task 2. What can the legend be about? Speak about your predictions. Read the legend and fill the gaps.
The legend says that once a fisherman came to the river Buh. He liked the place so much, that he built a house for himself on its (1)_______. He began to live there with his wife and two daughters. He (2)_______called the (3)_______daughter Vyshenka, and the younger was named Vinnychka. The girls (4)_______and became beautiful young women. They soon married hardworking fishermen and settled on the river banks. The elder daughter (5)_______the right bank of the Bug, and the younger Vinnychka began to (6)_______on the left one. They lived happily, farming the land and taking care (7)_______ their household. Once there was a strong wind. The birds suddenly stopped singing and the sun hid behind a black cloud. (8)_______, it (9)_______to be neither the wind, nor the storm, but the evil enemies who (10)_______their native land. They (11)_______the (12)_______houses, intending to capture them and kill their husbands. There was no way out. The sisters decided that death was better than slavery. Vinnychka was the first to (13)_______her house on fire. The other sister saw the fire and decided to do the same. The sisters died but didn’t (14)_______. Later people called rivers in their memory. Near the river Vinnychka people built a fortress and a town which was called Vinnytsia.
