Krasne (; ; ) is a village in the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, with about 1,300 inhabitants (2001).Local website on the official website of Verkhovna Rada; accessed on November 24, 2017 (Ukrainian) It belongs to Tarutyne settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
History
The territory of Bessarabia was established in 1812 in Peace of Bucharest from the Ottoman Vassal Prinzipality of Moldavia together with the Budjak in Imperial Russia. The new acquisition was treated as a colonization area and initially assigned to the Bessarabia Governorate.
In 1814, colonists (mostly Germans) emigrated from the Duchy of WarsawKrasna · Ein deutsches Dorf in Bessarabien; Autor: Eduard Volk; Cardamina Verlag. Die Deutschen Kolonisten in Bessarabien, Karl Wilhelm Kludt, Odessa, 1900; accessed on November 24, 2017 and established a colony in Bessarabia. Initially, the colony was given the number of the land plot in the overall survey plan on which it was located. Krasna was Steppe No. 7, often referred to as Colonia Catholica. From July 1817 onwards, it was given the name Konstantinovskaya/Konstantinschutz which has been determined from the reading of Krasna's baptismal registrations.Krasna · Ein deutsches Dorf in Bessarabien; Autor: Eduard Volk; Cardamina Verlag. From November 1817 onward, in memory of the victory Imperial Russian Army by Russian troops over the French in the Battle of Krasnoye, the village was named Krasna or Krasne.Local history Krasne in der The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR; accessed on November 24, 2017 (Ukrainian)
After Bessarabia became a part of Romania in 1918, the village was known as Crasna. In 1940 the region fell under Soviet control, and the village became Krasne.
Until 18 July 2020, Krasne belonged to Tarutyne Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Tarutyne Raion was merged into Bolhrad Raion.
Geography Krasne is the only village in the area of the Bessarabske settlement hromada in Bolhrad Raion.Website of the district council on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada; accessed on November 24, 2017 (Ukrainian)
According to the 2001 census, the majority of the population of Crasna commune was Russian speaking (60.1%), while there were also Ukrainian (15.63%), Gagauz (12.28%), Bulgarian (8.43%) and Romanian (3.27%) speakers.https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/
See also Bessarabia Germans History of Moldova
References
External links Online heritage book Krasna