Valia Kuzmyna (Ukrainian: Валя Кузьмина; Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Valea Cosminului) is a commune (selsoviet) in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It is composed of a single village, Valya Kuzmina. It belongs to Voloka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]
Until 18 July 2020, Valia Kuzmyna belonged to Hlyboka 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 Hlyboka Raion was merged into Chernivtsi Raion.[2] [3]
In 2001, 43.19% (or 805) of the 1,864 inhabitants of Valia Kuzmyna spoke Romanian (out of which 655, or 35.14%, called it Romanian, as their native language, and 150, or 8.05%, called it Moldovan) while 54.18% (or 1010) spoke Ukrainian, and 40 (or 2.15%) spoke Russian.[4] According to the 1989 Soviet census, the number of inhabitants who declared themselves Romanians was 138 (8.34%), while 907 (54.80%) said that they were Moldovans, 564 said that they were Ukrainians (34.08%) and 27 (1.63%) that they were Russians, out of 1,655.[5] There has been no Romanian school in the village, but only a Ukrainian one, and number of self-identified Romanians and Moldovans have been linguistically Ukrainianized.[6] A large percentage of the population switched their declared census identities from Moldovan and Moldovan-speaking to Romanian and Romanian-speaking between the 1989 and 2001 censuses.[7]
In 2001, the Volokivska rural community had 6,086 inhabitants, including 4,919 Romanian-speakers (80.82%, including 4,749 self-identified Romanian-speakers, or 78.03% and 170 self-identified 170 Moldovan-speakers, or 2.79%), 1,090 Ukrainian-speakers (17.91%), and 55 Russian-speakers (0.9%).[8]