Kostychany

Village in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine

Place

Kostychany Костичани
48°13′26″N 26°29′55″E / 48.22389°N 26.49861°E / 48.22389; 26.49861
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Raion
Elevation	120 m (390 ft)
Population
• Total	est. 3,450
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EET)

Kostychany (Ukrainian: Костичани, Romanian: Costiceni) is a commune in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. The commune is composed of three villages: Dumeny (Думени; Dumeni), Kostychany and Novoivankivtsi (Новоіванківці; Vancicăuții Mici). It belongs to Vanchykivtsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1]

Until 18 July 2020, Kostychany belonged to Novoselytsia Raion, and it was historically a part of Bessarabia. 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 Novoselytsia Raion was split between Chernivtsi and Dnistrovskyi Raions, with Kostychany being transferred to Chernivtsi Raion.^[2]^[3] In 2001, 95.36% of the inhabitants spoke Romanian as their native language, with Ukrainian (2.87%) and Russian (1.69%) speakers in the minority.^[4]

Kostychany village was first officially attested in a document dated 1619.

Notable people

Toadere Captari [ro] (1923–1995), folk musician
Eugen Pâslaru (1950–2018), politician
Ion Vatamanu (1937–1993), writer and politician

References

^ "Ванчиковецкая громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 18 July 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
^ "Новірайони: 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/