It is located by the Southern Bug river in Nemyriv Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast, in the current Ukraine.
It is a medieval European city and a regional center of the Eastern Podolia region founded by government of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. It changed of hands several times between Poland, the ottoman empire and Russia, belonging to the latest from 1708 to the Ukrainian independence in 1991.
Bratslav is famous in Judaism as the place where Rabbi Nachman lived and taught between 1802 and 1810.