Chulakivka ( uk, Чулаківка) is a village ( selo) in

Skadovsk Raion Skadovsk Raion ( uk, Скадовський район) is one of the 5 administrative raions (a Raions of Ukraine, ''district'') of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Skadovsk. Population: On ...

Kherson Oblast Kherson Oblast ( uk, Херсо́нська о́бласть, translit=Khersónsʹka óblastʹ, ), also known as Khersonshchyna ( uk, Херсо́нщина, ), is an oblast (province) in southern Ukraine, currently claimed and partly occupied ...

, southern

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. The village hosts the administration of

Chulakivka rural hromada Chulakivka ( uk, Чулаківка) is a village ( selo) in Skadovsk Raion, Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine. The village hosts the administration of Chulakivka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It had a population of 3,087. Its loc ...

, one of the

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

s of Ukraine. It had a population of 3,087. Its local government is the Chulakivka village council.

Administrative status

Until 18 July, 2020, Chulakivka belonged to

Hola Prystan Raion Hola Prystan Raion ( uk, Голопристанський район) was one of the 18 administrative raions (a ''district'') of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its administrative center was located in the city of Hola Prystan, which was inc ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kherson Oblast to five. The area of Hola Prystan Raion was merged into Skadovsk Raion.

History

Chulakivka was founded in 1751.

2022 Russian occupation

On 14 March, 2022, Chulakivka was captured and occupied by the Russian Armed Forces during the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

. On 31 December, Ukraine conducted the Chulakivka military quarters shelling, which the Ukrainians claimed to have killed or wounded 500 Russian soldiers. Another, more detailed report later stated that 175 of these casualties were wounded and that 12 military vehicles were destroyed.

Demographics

According to the 1989 Soviet census, the population of the village was 3,009 people, of whom 1,442 were men and 1,567 women. According to the

2001 Ukrainian census The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.

, 3,051 people lived in the village.

Languages

According to the 2001 census, the primary languages of the inhabitants of the village were:

Infrastructure

In the village, the Chulakivka secondary school serves grades one through three.

References

{{Reflist Villages in Skadovsk Raion