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Voloka (Ukrainian: Волока; Romanian: Voloca pe Derelui or Voloca) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Voloka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]
The current population of the village is 3,035[2] (3,028 at the time of the 2001 Ukrainian census).[3]
Most inhabitants are Romanians and they are almost exclusively engaged in the creation of 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.[4]
Until 18 July 2020, Voloka belonged to Hlyboka Raion. 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.[5][6] In 2001, 97.56% of the inhabitants spoke Romanian as their native language (2,960 called it Romanian and 1 called it Moldovan), while 2.08% spoke Ukrainian.[7] 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.[8] 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, and the process has continued ever since.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Волоковская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ "с Волока Чернівецька область, Глибоцький район (Voloka village, Chernivtsi region, Hlybotskyi district)" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2007-03-10.
- ^ "World Gazetteer: Chernivets'ka - largest cities (Per geographical entity)". www.world-gazetteer.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
- ^ "PhotoRaid 2005 Agale prin Bucovina".
- ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
- ^ https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/
- ^ Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii dn Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 217.
- ^ Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii dn Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 257.
