Molodiia

Village in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine

Place

Molodiia Молодія
Flag Coat of arms
48°13′39″N 26°1′26″E / 48.22750°N 26.02389°E / 48.22750; 26.02389
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Raion
Elevation	235 m (771 ft)
Population (2007)
• Total	3,847
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EET)

Molodiia (Ukrainian: Молодія, Romanian: Plaiul Cosminului) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is composed of a single village, Molodiia. This was first officially attested in a document dated 1486.^{[citation needed]} It belongs to Chahor rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1]

History

Until 18 July 2020, Molodiia 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.^[2]^[3] In 2001, 55.52% of the 3,822 inhabitants of Molodiia spoke Romanian, or 2,122 people (48.06%, or 1,837 people, self-identified it as Moldovan and 7.46%, or 285 people, as Romanian) as their native language, while 43.54% (or 1,664 people) spoke Ukrainian.^[4] In 1992-1993, the school students at the local Ukrainian-language school, the only one in the locality, included 22.96% Ukrainians, 58.5% Romanians, and 17.35% Moldovans.^[5] In 1989, the population was 30.74% ethnically Ukrainian, 5.72% self-identified ethnically Romanian, and 61.96% self-identified ethnically Moldovan.^[6] The data suggests that the increase in the proportion of self-identified ethnic Romanians and self-identified Romanian speakers at the expense of the self-identified Moldovans and self-identified Moldovan-speakers was more common among the younger generation.^[7]

Population

1930 — 3960
1989 — 3741
2007 — 3847

References

^ "Чагорская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ "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.
^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by localities, at https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/
^ Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 257, 270.
^ Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 217.
^ Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 257. The village is listed by the two authors as one of the localities in which this process has occurred.