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   Krasnoilsk or Crasna - village in Chernivtsi region in Western Ukraine, eight kilometers from the Romanian border.
C 1940 to 1991 Chernivtsi region was part of the USSR.
The majority of the population here ethnic Romanians and hardly anyone speaks in Ukrainian and...

   Krasnoilsk or Crasna - village in Chernivtsi region in Western Ukraine, eight kilometers from the Romanian border.
C 1940 to 1991 Chernivtsi region was part of the USSR.
The majority of the population here ethnic Romanians and hardly anyone speaks in Ukrainian and Russian. Traditions and cultural practices, national clothes krasnoyartsev Romanian.
For Ukrainians residents of Krasnoilsk - Romanians, but for Romanians - they Russians, alien for all.

Malanka in Krasnoyilsk - pre-Christian, pagan rite of unity with the forces of nature. It is transmitted from generation to generation, from year to year over the centuries, the villagers continue to personally produce elaborate costumes.
However, the rest of the year, residents of the village are very religious - regularly visit the Orthodox Church, build in courtyards mini chapel "kaplicky".
For ceremony of Malanka villagers are preparing all year round - in summer harvested and dried hay, reed for suits bears, invent new images, on the eve of the holiday, make masks, sew dresses, and makes moonshine.
The Malanka celebrates on the night of Saint Basil of 13 to 14 January, which became one of the main characters of the ritual, like a bear with a Gypsy. Young boys and Mature men dress in different characters and go from house to house, singing and shouting slogans Romanian language, performing ritual dances. For many centuries the main Krasninskoe the Malanka is the image of a bear. This is its uniqueness and difference from other Malankas in Ukraine and Moldova.

The village is divided into five parts, and each has their own image of a bear - "URSA" (from the Romanian ursa - bear). The bear made from harvested in the summer of straw and reeds - weave long plaits and wrapped them of a man who in the Malanka will walk in that suit the whole day without removing.
Bear in the Trojan village with large wings-wingspan of up to five meters, decorated with paper flowers and tinsel, in Putna resembles a haystack, in a village of Sus bear suit has the shape of a heart... Straw bear can weigh from 70 to 120 kilograms and to walk in it the day you have to be very strong and tough person. For young mans to be a bear on the Malanka this is the main chance, to get sympathy and respect girls, villagers...