Krynychne ( uk, Криничне; bg, Чушмелия, Chushmeliya; ro, Cișmeaua-Văruită) is a village in

Bolhrad Raion Bolhrad Raion ( uk, Болградський район; ro, Raionul Bolgrad) is a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. It is part of the historical region of Bessarabia. Its administrative center is the town of Bolhrad. Population: On ...

Odesa Oblast Odesa Oblast ( uk, Оде́ська о́бласть, translit=Odeska oblast), also referred to as Odeshchyna ( uk, Оде́щина) is an oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administr ...

, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of , 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.

History

Krynychne was founded in 1813 by

Bulgarian Bulgarian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria * Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group * Bulgarian language, a Slavic language * Bulgarian alphabet * A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria * Bul ...

settlers on the site of a Tatar settlement and since then has shared the history of the Budschak region in

Southern Bessarabia Southern Bessarabia or South Bessarabia is a territory of Bessarabia which, as a result of the Crimean War, was returned to the Moldavian Principality in 1856. As a result of the unification of the latter with Wallachia, these lands became part ...

. When the village was founded, the local area belonged to the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

for only a year. It previously belonged to

the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

and only became part of the Russian

Bessarabia Governorate The Bessarabia Governorate (, ) was a part of the Russian Empire from 1812 to 1917. Initially known as Bessarabia Oblast (Бессарабская область, ''Bessarabskaya oblast'') as well as, following 1871, a governorate, it included ...

under the terms of the Treaty of Bucharest in 1812. After Russia lost the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...

, the area around Southern Bessarabia, in which Krynytschne was located, went to

Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centr ...

in 1856, only to fall back to Russia after the next

Russo-Turkish War The Russo-Turkish wars (or Ottoman–Russian wars) were a series of twelve wars fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries. It was one of the longest series of military conflicts in European histor ...

in 1878 until 1917. During the

October Revolution The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment ...

, Bessarabia broke away from Russia, declared itself a

Moldovan Democratic Republic The Moldavian Democratic Republic (MDR; ro, Republica Democratică Moldovenească, ), also known as the Moldavian Republic, was a state proclaimed on by the ''Sfatul Țării'' (National Council) of Bessarabia, elected in October–Novemb ...

in 1917 and voluntarily joined the

Kingdom of Romania The Kingdom of Romania ( ro, Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy that existed in Romania from 13 March ( O.S.) / 25 March 1881 with the crowning of prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as King Carol I (thus beginning the Romanian ...

in the same year. After the

Soviet occupation of Bessarabia The Soviet invasion and occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina took place from June 28 to July 3, 1940, as a result of an ultimatum by the Soviet Union to Kingdom of Romania, Romania on June 26, 1940, that threatened the use of force. Be ...

in 1940, the village was in Bolhrad Raion of Akkerman Oblast (from 7 August 1940

Izmail Oblast Izmail Oblast (; ro, Regiunea Ismail) (7 August 1940 — 15 February 1954) was an oblast in the Ukrainian SSR, roughly corresponding to the historical region of Budjak. It had a territory of . The oblast was organized on 7 August 1940 on the ...

) in the Ukrainian SSR. At the beginning of the German-Soviet War, the village came back to Romania in 1941. After the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

recaptured Bessarabia in 1944, the village was back in the Ukrainian Izmail Oblast, which was merged into the

in 1954. In 1991, the village became part of independent Ukraine.

Demographics

According to the 1989 census, the population of Krynychne was 4,607 people, of whom 2,192 were men and 2,415 were women. According to the 2001 census, 4,342 people lived in the village. Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:

Notable people

Dimitar Agura Dimitar Agura. Dimitar Dimitrov Agura ( bg, Димитър Димитров Агура; 26 October 1849 – 11 October 1911) was a Bulgarian historian, one of the first professors of history at Sofia University and a rector of the university. Agur ...

(1849–1911), Bulgarian historian * (1853–1915), Bulgarian lieutenant general * (1902–1979), Romanian oenologist

References

{{Bolhrad Raion Villages in Bolhrad Raion Ismail County Bulgarian communities in Ukraine Krynychne rural hromada