Hlyboka (; German and ; ) is a rural settlement in

Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast 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 t ...

, western

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. It hosts the administration of Hlyboka settlement hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population:

History

Hlyboka is mentioned for the first time in 1438. Before

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, large parts of lands of Hlyboka were owned by Polish noble families: until 1892 by Prince Adam Sapieha, then by Bronislaw Skibniewski (1830–1904) and later by his son Aleksander Skibniewski (1868–1942). Hlyboka received

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status in 1956. Until 18 July 2020, Hlyboka served as an administrative center of

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. On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished the status of urban-type settlement in Ukraine, and Hlyboka became a rural settlement.

Demographics

In 2001, 84.64% of the 9,124 inhabitants spoke Ukrainian as their native language (7,723 people), while 12.16% spoke Romanian, or 1,109 people (11.72% called it Romanian, or 1069 people, and 0.44% called in "Moldovan", or 40 people), and 2.97% spoke Russian, or 271 people. In 1989, out of a population of mostly Ukrainian 9,352 inhabitants, 1,698 declared that they were ethnic Romanians (18.86%) and 183 declared that they were ethnic Moldovans (1.96%). A large majority of the population with a Moldovan identity switched their declared census identities from Moldovan and Moldovan-speaking to Romanian and Romanian-speaking between the 1989 and 2001 censuses. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, in the Hlyboka settlement community, which was created in 2020 and had a population of 18,897 according to the census, and whose capital was Hlyboka, 70.39% of the inhabitants spoke Ukrainian as their native language, or 13,301 people, while 27.48%, or 5,193 people, spoke Romanian (including 5,117 who called it Romanian, or 27.08%, and 76 called it "Moldovan", or 0.4%), and 1.91%, or 271 people, spoke Russian.See the 2001 Ukrainian census results by language by locality at https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/. The reason why the term "Moldovan language" appears within quotation marks is because this is how this is written on this official statistical website of the Republic of Moldova. See

International relations

Twin towns - sister cities

Hlyboka is twinned with: *

Piatra Neamț Piatra Neamț (; ; ) is the capital city of Neamț County, in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in northeastern Romania. Because of its very privileged location in the Divisions of the Carpathians, Eastern Carpathian mountains, it is con ...

, Romania

Notable people

* Valerii Krasnian (1971–2022), Ukrainian volunteer, cyborg, one of the symbols of the fight for Donetsk airport, a serviceman.

Hlyboka on old photographs

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References

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External links

Hlybostky Raion official websiteTrain in HlybokaOld photos of Hlyboka
{{authority control Rural settlements in Chernivtsi Raion Bukovina