Valea Adîncă (; ; , ; ) is a commune in Camenca District, in the northern part of

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. The name in

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means "deep valley". It is composed of two villages, Constantinovca and Valea Adîncă. Nobel Prize laureate

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situated the Devil's Gorge where the

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Horpyna, a well-known fictional character from the novel '' With Fire and Sword'', lived in this vicinity along the

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river. It was rendered under the Polish spelling of Waładynka. Valea Adîncă is also the site of the Church of the Blessed Virgin's Protection, a

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. According to the 2004 census, the village's population was 608, of which 44 (7.23%) were Moldovans (Romanians), 540 (88.81%) were Ukrainians and 21 (3.45%) were Russians.The Transnistrian census of 2004 data by nationality at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/pmr-ethnic-loc2004.htm

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