Kozyn

Kozyn
Козин
Urban-type settlement
Kozyn
Coordinates: 50°13′N 30°39′E / 50.217°N 30.650°E / 50.217; 30.650Coordinates: 50°13′N 30°39′E / 50.217°N 30.650°E / 50.217; 30.650
Country Ukraine
Oblast Kiev Oblast
Founded 1000
Population (2001)
 • Total 3,300
Postal code 08711—08712
Area code(s) +380 4472
Website http://www.kozin.com.ua/

Kozyn (Ukrainian: Козин) is an urban-type settlement in Obukhiv Raion of Kiev Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Population: 3,269 (2013 est.)[1].

Kozyn is situated on the rivers Dnieper and Kozynka, 25 km. to the south of Kiev.

In Red Cavalry, Isaac Babel includes a one page description of the Jewish cemetery in Kozyn. 'A cemetery in a Jewish shtetl. Assyria and the mysterious decay of the East on the weed-cluttered fields of Volyn.'[2]

Reference

  1. ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel, translated by Boris Dralyuk (London: Pushkin Press, 2014).
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