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Bukovyna Malanka in Chernivtsi/Krasnoilsk
Krasnoilsk Malanka is a traditional Pereberiya-style winter carnival held every January 13 and 14 in the Bukovynian town of Krasnoilsk near Chernivtsi, mobilizing around 500 local residents in handmade costumes and drawing visitors from across Ukraine and abroad each year to watch its competing masked processions move through the village streets.
Krasnoilsk Malanka is a traditional Pereberiya-style carnival held every year on January 13 and 14 in the Bukovynian town of Krasnoilsk in Chernivtsi Oblast, with roots that researchers trace back at least to the settlement's founding year of 1431, and with its cast of characters echoing the social groups that lived in the historic region of what is now Romania between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.