Voloka, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast

Voloka (Ukrainian: Волока; Romanian: Voloca pe Derelui or Voloca) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.

[1] The current population of the village is 3,035[2] (3,028 at the time of the 2001 Ukrainian census).

[3] Most inhabitants are Romanians and they are almost exclusively engaged in the creation of bridal gowns, a business that has proved quite successful in the past decade, as the village has managed to make a name for itself in almost all of Ukraine and Russia as well as Romania.

[9] In 2001, the Volokivska or Voloka 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%).

[15] A majority of the Romanian plus Moldovan population switched their declared census identities from Moldovan and Moldovan-speaking to Romanian and Romanian-speaking between the 1989 and 2001 censuses.