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Lipovans (Russian Old Believers) during a ceremony in front of their church in the Romanian village of Slava Cherkeza in 2004.

Lipovans or Lippovans (Lipoveni in Romanian, Russian: Липоване) are the Old Believers, mostly of Russian ethnic origin, residing in the delta of the Danube River in Tulcea county of eastern Romania and in the southern part of Odessa Oblast in Ukraine. It is estimated that there are about 40,000 Lipovans. Tasks icon from Novell Evolution, GNU GPL licensed File links The following pages link to this file: Talk:Anti-Semitism Talk:Alchemy Talk:Ludwig van Beethoven Talk:Black Talk:Cell (biology) Talk:Blood alcohol content Talk:Copyright Talk:Non-carbon biology Talk:Christmas Talk:Copyleft Talk:Computer security Talk:Democracy... Image File history File linksMetadata Evstafiev-lipovane-slava-cherkeza. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Evstafiev-lipovane-slava-cherkeza. ... Detail of the painting Boyarynya Morozova by Vasily Surikov depicting a defiant Old Believer arrested by Czarist authorities in 1671. ... Length 2,888 km Elevation of the source 1,078 m Average discharge 30 km before Passau: 580 m³/s Vienna: 1,900 m³/s Budapest: 2,350 m³/s just before Delta: 6,500 m³/s Area watershed 817,000 km² Origin Black Forest (Schwarzwald-Baar, Baden- Württemberg, Germany... Administrative map of Romania with Tulcea county highlighted Tulcea is a Romanian county (Judeţ) in the Dobrogea region, with the capital city at Tulcea (population: 96,813). ... Odessa Oblast (Ukrainian: Одеська область, Odes’ka oblast’ or Одещина, Odeshchyna) is an oblast of south-western Ukraine. ...

They emigrated from Russia over 200 years ago as dissenters with the mainline Russian Orthodox Church. They settled along the Prut River in Moldova and in the Danube Delta. They have maintained strong religious traditions that predate the reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church undertaken during the reign of Patriarch Nikon. The main centre of Lipovan community in Ukraine is Vilkovo. The Russian Orthodox Church (also known as the Orthodox Catholic Church of Russia) (Русская Православная церковь) is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with the other patriarchs and primates of the Eastern Orthodox Church. ... Length 953  km Elevation of the source -  m Average discharge -  m³/s Area watershed 27,500  km² Origin  Ukraine Mouth  Danube Basin countries Ukraine, Romania, Moldova The Prut, or Pruth river (Ukrainian: Прут) is 953 km long, originating in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine and flowing southeast to join the Danube... Danube Delta - Landsat satellite photo (2000) The Danube Delta (Delta Dunării in Romanian), located in Dobrogea, Romania and a small part in Odeska oblast, Ukraine, is the largest and best preserved of European deltas, with an area of 3446 km². The delta is located around the area where... The Russian Orthodox Church (also known as the Orthodox Catholic Church of Russia) (Русская Православная церковь) is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with the other patriarchs and primates of the Eastern Orthodox Church. ... Nikon (Ни́кон), born Nikita Minin (1605-1681), was patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1652 to 1658. ... Vilkovo (Ukrainian: Вілкове; Romanian: Vâlcov; Russian: Вилково) is a town located in the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta, at utmost South-West of Ukraine, in Kiliya raion of Odessa oblast. ...

References

• Second-Hand Souls: Selected Writing by Nichita Danilov (translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter), [1]
• Les Lipovenes, qui sont-ils?, in the French language, [2]
• Lipovan's icons: The Bleschunov Municipal Museum of Personal Collections
• Romania. Religious Freedom Report 1999