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Chernivtsi was under the control of the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1941, after which Romania recovered the city, and then again from 1944 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, after which it became part of independent Ukraine.
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On 30 December 1922, along with the Russian, Byelorussian and Transcaucasian republics, the Ukrainian SSR became one of the founding members of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). [33] Bolshevik commissars in Ukraine (1919). Territories claimed by the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1920).
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Chernivtsi Oblast covers an area of 8,097 km2 (3,126 sq mi). It is the smallest oblast in Ukraine, representing 1.3% of Ukrainian territory, and is only larger than the city of Kyivitself. In the oblast there are 75 rivers longer than 10 kilometers. The largest rivers are the Dniester (290 km, in the Oblast), Prut (128 km, in the Oblast) and Siret(...
Chernivtsi oblast was created on August 7, 1940, in the wake of the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. The oblast was organized out of the northeast part of Ținutul Suceava of Kingdom of Romania, joining parts of three historical regions: northern half of Bukovina, northern half of the Hotin County county of Bessarabia, and Hert...
Since July 2020, Chernivtsi Oblast is administratively subdivided into 3 raions (districts). These are 1. Chernivtsi Raion; 2. Dnistrovskyi Raion; 3. Vyzhnytsia Raion. At the locality level, the territory of the oblast is divided among 11 cities, 8 urban-type settlements, and 252 communes.
According to the latest Ukrainian Census (2001), Ukrainians represent about 75% (689.1 thousands) of the population of Chernivtsi Oblast. 12.5% (114.6 thousands) reported themselves as Romanians, 7.3% (67.2 thousand) as Moldovans, and 4.1% (37.9 thousands) as Russians. The other nationalities, such as Poles, Belarusians, and Jewssum up to 1.2%. The...
Luzhka waterfallRoyal WaterfallBiscow FallsKizia WaterfallOn the territory of the Chernivtsi region there are 836 archeological monuments (of which 18 have national meanings), 586 historical monuments (2 of them have national significance), 779 monuments of architecture and urban development (112 of them national significance), 42 monuments of monumental art. 1. Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metro...
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Until 1937 it was called the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (; Ukrainska Sotsialistychna Radianska Respublika). The Ukrainian SSR ceased to exist on 24 August 1991, when the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR proclaimed the independent state of Ukraine. The Ukrainian SSR bordered on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the south, on ...
SSR within the Soviet Union. Soviet Ukraine did have the external attributes of statehood, but it was not an authentic nation-state within the USSR. In fact, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a multiethnic, multicul-tural administrative-political construction more similar to a minia-ture Soviet Union than to a Ukrainian nation-state ...
Jan 20, 2023 · In June 1940, according to the Nazi-Soviet Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, after an ultimatum, Chernivtsi and all of Northern Bukovina were annexed from Romania by the Soviet Union and became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. On August 7, 1940, Chernivtsi Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR was formed.
Dec 15, 2023 · It concludes that Soviet guidebooks to Chernivtsi, adhering to the official doctrine, create an exclusive and sanitized image of the city's past, aimed at erasing the history and experiences of the local “Others,” represented primarily by Romanians, Jews, and Germans, who, before the Soviet annexation, were demographically dominant ethnic groups...
