Короткий опис (реферат):
The article deals with the description of a famine in the Southern Bessarabia in
1946-1947. The author describes facts of this tragedy of the Ukrainian people through
the prism of dialectal texts gathered from the bearers of the Ukrainian steppe dialects
spread in the area between the Danube and the Dniester rivers. The author gives
reasons for the necessity to use dialectal texts as a source of historical information.