Village Volovita, district Soroca

Village Volovita is situated on the national road Soroca – Chisinau at a distance of 7 km from the district center Soroca, 30 km from the railway station Floresti, and 3 km from the railway road Drochia.  The village is situated at the boarder with Ukraine ; the distance to the closest Soroca Customs is of 8 km.

The total number of the inhabitants (according to the 2004 census) is of 1891 people, including: 928 men, 967 women, 393 children, 387 pensioners. There are 64 employees paid from the budget, 650 people work in the agricultural sector;   employed outside the community: 77 people work in the town Soroca, 195 people work abroad.

The ethnic composition of the village is the following: 1835 Moldovans, 22 Russians, 26 Ukrainians, 9 other minorities.

Being a relatively young village, Volovita possesses few historical data which might render considerable weight to its past. It has recently celebrated its 200th anniversary. According to some data, selected from the State Archives of the Republic of Moldova, in May 1836 village Volovita had 38 households, 95 men, 90 women,  951 acres of arable land, 177 acres of forests, 20 acres of orchards, 12 acres of tobacco.  The village was the property of the nobleman Tarcevschi. One of the main occupations of the people in all the times was agriculture; the cultivation of grains being given priority. At the end of the XIX century the beginning of the XX century there were small shoemaker’s shops. The inhabitants of the village were known as good carters and builders. Women used to sell the surplus of products at the markets in Soroca. Tobacco became the main branch of agriculture in the Soviet period. A branch of Soroca food-canning plant and a workshop for the repair of agricultural machinery were opened in the village. Bordering Ukraine permitted the villagers to do business with the communities on the other bank of the Nistru - Cosnita and Techinovca.
The period since 1990 to the present was marked by a crisis connected with the dissolution of Volovita State farm and the distribution of the land to the peasants. This process lasted for a long time. Many buildings belonging to the farm were destroyed such as: dairy farms, complexes for tobacco drying, the tractor brigade. At present 232 individual farms specialized in the growing of agricultural cultures and animal breeding are registered in the community. At present in the village there are: 228 cows, 300 pigs, 43 horses, 248 sheep and goats, 509 poultry.