Karakurt (Ukrainian: Каракурт; Russian: Каракурт; Albanian: Karakurt, also known as Karakurti; Romanian: Caracurt) is a village located in the Bolhrad Raion in the southwestern part of the Ukrainian Odesa Oblast with a population of approximately 2405 inhabitants (as of 2021).

After losing the Crimean War, the area including Cahul, Bolhrad, and Izmail, where Karakurt is located, was transferred to the Principality of Moldavia as Southern Bessarabia in 1856, only to fall back to the Russian Empire after the Russo-Ottoman War in 1878, a part of which it remained until 1917.

During the chaos of the October Revolution, Russia lost Bessarabia, which declared itself independent as the Moldavian Democratic Republic in 1917 and voluntarily joined the Kingdom of Romania in the same year.

In 2013, the inhabitants of the village consisted of approximately 60% Albanians, 25% Bulgarians, 10% Gagauz and 5% representatives of other ethnic groups.

On June 12, 2020, the village became a part of the rural municipality of Vasylivka;[6] until then, together with the village of Novyi Karakurt (Новий Каракурт), it formed the rural municipality of Karakurt (Ukrainian: Каракуртська сільська рада) in the south of Bolhrad Raion.