2. Jurilovca is a commune in Tulcea County, Dobrudja, Romania.
It is composed of three villages: Jurilovca, Vișina and Sălcioara
(Caramanchioi until 1934; Vintilă Brătianu from 1934 to 1947; 6
Martie from 1947 to 1996).
It was founded by Lipovans at the beginning of the 19th
century; the first documentary attestation is from 1826.
Although at its beginnings it was a small village, the
settlement grew and become, at the end of the 19th century,
an important fishing center in Danube Delta area. Nowadays
it has the biggest community of fishermen in Romania, and it
has the most modern fish processing factory in the country
and Eastern Europe.
3. Jurilovca is also a tourist center. At about 15 km across
the Golovița Lake is Gura Portiței, a beach resort at Black Sea.
You can reach there by little vessel and by boat. Other tourist
attractions are Argamum Citadel and Doloșman Cape. Entire
area is a part of Danube DeltaBiosphere Reservation.
At the 2011 census, 60.7% of the inhabitants were Romanians
and 38.8% Russian Lipovans.
Tourism
4. The Lipovans are Russians by ethnicity and Old
Believers Orthodox by confession. This confession is the
result of Nikonian Reform. In 1652, Nikon, the Patriarch
of Russian Orthodox Church, initiated a religious reform
which had in view adaptation of Russian Church at the rest of
the Orthodox Churches, in fact a formal reform. The result
was the division of Russian society in two: Nikonians, those
who accepted the Reform, and Starovers (Old Believers),
those who did not accept the Reform. The last ones, being
chased, emigrated outside Russia, a part of them arriving on
Romanian territory, north of Moldavia and Dobruja.
Nikonian Reform
