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The Lipovans or Lippovans are ethnic Russian Old Believers living in Romania, Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria who settled in the Principality of Moldavia, in the east of the Principality of Wallachia, a
Lipovans during a ceremony in front of the Lipovan church in the Romanian village of Slava Cercheză in 2004
Lipovans in Vylkove, Ukraine
Vylkove
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Vylkove is a small city located in the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta, at utmost southwest of Ukraine, on the border with Romania. Administratively, it is part of Izmail Raion of Odesa Oblast. Vyl
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…although relations have improved recently. (See main article on Old Believers.) The main centre of the Lipovan community in Ukraine is the town of Vylkove, which has its own church, the St Nicholas Church. In order to construct their homes, the Lipovans create islets of dry land by digging mud out from…
View of Vylkove
Bilohorodskyi Canal — the main canal in Vylkove