Budenets (Ukrainian: Буденець; Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Budineț) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. The village's population was 75 people in 2013 in the census. It belongs to Chudei rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]
Until 18 July 2020, Budenets belonged to Storozhynets Raion. 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 Storozhynets Raion was merged into Chernivtsi Raion.[2] [3] In 2001, 95.78% of the inhabitants spoke Romanian as their native language, while 1.13% spoke Ukrainian.[4]
Vasile Burlă (1840–1905), Imperial Austrian-born Romanian philologist