Vashkivtsi (, ; ro, Vășcăuți; german: Waschkautz; ) is a city in
Vyzhnytsia Raion
Vyzhnytsia Raion ( uk, Вижницький район) is an administrative raion (district) in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast, located in the historical region of Bukovina, in western Ukraine, on the Romanian border. The region has an ar ...
of
Chernivtsi Oblast
Chernivtsi Oblast ( uk, Черніве́цька о́бласть, Chernivetska oblast), also referred to as Chernivechchyna ( uk, Чернівеччина) is an oblast (province) in Western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the regio ...
(
province
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) of
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. It is located in the historical region of
Bukovina. It hosts the administration of
Vashkivtsi urban hromada, one of the
hromadas of Ukraine.
Population:
One village is administered by the town, Voloka (Волока; Voloca).
History
City since 1940.
[Вашковцы // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. А. М. Прохорова. 3-е изд. том 4. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1971. стр.345][Вашковцы // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.199][Вашковцы // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 1. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.198]
In January 1989 the population was 5811 people.
In January 2013 the population was 5406 people.
Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2013 року. Державна служба статистики України. Київ, 2013. стор.108
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Transport
* a railway station.
Natives
* John Hnatyshyn, Canadian
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lawyer, Senator and father of Ray Hnatyshyn
Ramon John Hnatyshyn ( ; uk, Роман Іванович Гнатишин, Roman Ivanovych Hnatyshyn, ; March 16, 1934December 18, 2002) was a Canadian lawyer and statesman who served as governor general of Canada, the 24th since Canadian Co ...
, the twenty-fourth Governor General of Canada
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.
* Tina Karol
, native_name_lang = uk
, birth_name = Tetiana Hryhorivna Liberman
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Orotukan, Russian SFSR, USSR
, alma_mater = R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music National Aviation University
, ...
, Ukrainian
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* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...
singer and songwriter, who represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, placing seventh; her father is from Vashkivtsi.
References
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Cities in Chernivtsi Oblast
Cities of district significance in Ukraine
Duchy of Bukovina