Chulakivka (Ukrainian: Чулаківка) is a village (selo) in Skadovsk Raion, Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine. The village hosts the administration of Chulakivka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] It had a population of 3,087. Its local government is the Chulakivka village council.

Administrative status

Until 18 July, 2020, Chulakivka belonged to Hola Prystan Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kherson Oblast to five. The area of Hola Prystan Raion was merged into Skadovsk Raion.[2][3]

History

Chulakivka was founded in 1751 under the Russian Empire.[4]

Russo-Ukrainian War

Further information: Russo-Ukrainian War and Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast

Chulakivka was captured and occupied by the Russian Armed Forces on the first day of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

On 14 March 2022, Russian soldiers formed a ring around the village and found saboteurs on the outskirts who opened fire on them. The soldiers conducted an operation the following morning to search for them.[5]

On 31 December, Ukrainian forces conducted the Chulakivka military quarters shelling, during which the Ukrainians claimed to have killed or wounded 500 Russian soldiers.[6] The Ukrainian General Staff claimed on their Telegram account that 175 Russians were wounded, while 12 units of equipment were also claimed to have been destroyed.[7]

Demographics

According to the 1989 Soviet census, the population of the village was 3,009 people, of whom 1,442 were men and 1,567 women.[8]

According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, 3,051 people lived in the village.[9]

Languages

According to the 2001 census, the primary languages of the inhabitants of the village were:[10]

Language Percentage
Ukrainian 93.88 %
Russian 5.44 %
Belarusian 0.26 %
Moldovan (Romanian) 0.19 %
Armenian 0.06 %

Infrastructure

In the village, the Chulakivka secondary school serves grades one through three.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Чулаковская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  3. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  4. ^ Волости и важнейшие селения Европейской России [The Most Important Towns and Villages in European Russia] (in Russian). Vol. VIII. St. Petersburg: Центр. статист. комитет. 1886.
  5. ^ Іванова, Таміла (15 March 2022). "На Херсонщині окупанти Чулаківського сільського голову утримують проти волі" [In the Kherson region, the occupiers of the Chulakivka village are holding them against their will]. Суспільне (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  6. ^ "AFU attack occupiers in Kherson Region, enemy loses 500 people". ukranews.com.
  7. ^ 31 грудня ЗСУ завдали ударів по позиціях окупантів на Запоріжжі, 175 загарбників поранено — Генштаб.
  8. ^ "Кількість наявного та постійного населення по кожному сільському населеному пункту, Херсонська область (осіб) - Регіон, Рік, Категорія населення , Стать (1989(12.01))". database.ukrcensus.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2014-07-31.
  9. ^ "Кількість наявного населення по кожному сільському населеному пункту, Херсонська область (осіб) - Регіон , Рік (2001(05.12))". database.ukrcensus.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2014-07-31.
  10. ^ "Розподіл населення за рідною мовою, Херсонська область (у % до загальної чисельності населення) - Регіон, Рік , Вказали у якості рідної мову (2001(05.12))". database.ukrcensus.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2014-07-31.
  11. ^ "Установи Чулаківки на сайті B2BToday". Archived from the original on 28 August 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.