Chernivtsi Raion
Chernivtsi Raion () is a raion (district) of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It was created on 18 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. Most of its territory is located in the historical region of Bukovina, while the ...
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Chernivtsi Oblast
Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldo ...
hromada
In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...
s of Ukraine.
The current population of the village is 3,035 (3,028 at the time of the
2001 Ukrainian census
The 2001 Ukrainian census 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.bridal gowns, a business that has proved quite successful in the past decade, as the village has managed to make a name for itself in almost all of Ukraine and Russia as well as
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
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Until 18 July 2020, Voloka belonged to
Hlyboka Raion
Hlyboka Raion (, ) is a former administrative district of Chernivtsi Oblast located in the historical regions of Bukovina and Hertsa, in western Ukraine. The administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Hlyboka. There were 37 village ...
. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Hlyboka Raion was merged into Chernivtsi Raion. In 2001, 97.56% of the inhabitants of Voloka spoke Romanian as their native language (2,960 called it Romanian, or 97.53%, and 1 called it "Moldovan", or 0.03%), while 2.08% spoke Ukrainian. In the 1989 census, the number of residents who declared themselves Romanian plus Moldovan was 2,907 (1,060 Romanians, or 33.68%, plus 1,847 Moldovans, or 58.69%), representing 92.37% of the locality's population of 3,147. A large majority of the population switched their declared census identities from Moldovan and Moldovan-speaking to Romanian and Romanian-speaking between the 1989 and 2001 censuses.
In 2001, the Volokivska or Voloka rural community had 6,086 inhabitants, including 4,919 Romanian-speakers (80.82%, including 4,749 self-identified Romanian-speakers, or 78.03% and 170 self-identified 170 "Moldovan-speakers", or 2.79%), 1,090 Ukrainian-speakers (17.91%), and 55 Russian-speakers (0.9%). In addition to the villages of Voloka and Valia Kuzmyna, it also included the village of Hrushivka village (see the Romanian-language Wikipedia article on Hrushivka at https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gru%C8%99%C4%83u%C8%9Bi,_Ad%C3%A2ncata). According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the majority of the population of 1,187 people of Hrushivka was Romanian-speaking (97.98% or 1,163 people, including 1,144 self-identified Romanian-speakers, or 96.38%, and 19 self-identified "Moldovan-speakers", or 1.6%), with a minority of Ukrainian speakers (1.43%, or 17 people) and of Russian-speakers (0.51%, or 6 people). In the 1989 census, the number of residents who declared themselves Romanian plus Moldovan was 1,089, or 96.71% (495 Romanians, or 43.96%, plus 594 Moldovans, or 52.75%), but there were also 17 Ukrainians (1.51%) and 6 Russians (0.53%). A majority of the population switched their declared census identities from Moldovan and Moldovan-speaking to Romanian and Romanian-speaking between the 1989 and 2001 censuses.
In 2001, out of 6,086 individuals who lived in the Voloka rural hromada, 1,090 were Ukrainian-speaking (17.91%), 4,929 were Romanian-speaking (80.99%), including 4,759 who called the language Romanian (78.2%) and 170 who called it Moldovan (2.79%), and 40 were Russian-speaking (0.66%). In 1989, out 5,928 inhabitants, 821 (13.85%) were ethnic Ukrainians, 1,693 were ethnic Romanians (28.56%), 3,348 were ethnic Moldovans (56.48%) and 44 were Russians (0.74%). A majority of the Romanian plus Moldovan population switched their declared census identities from Moldovan and Moldovan-speaking to Romanian and Romanian-speaking between the 1989 and 2001 censuses.Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, ''Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor'', vol. 1 (''Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti''), Cernauti, 2005, p. 257.