Kozyn
Kozyn
Козин | |
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Urban-type settlement | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Kozyn | |
| Coordinates: 50°13′N 30°39′E / 50.217°N 30.650°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Kiev Oblast |
| Raion | Obukhiv Raion |
| Founded | 1000 |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 3,300 |
| Postal code | 08711—08712 |
| Area code | +380 4472 |
| Website | https://web.archive.org/web/20070922032227/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]
References
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel, translated by Boris Dralyuk (London: Pushkin Press, 2014).
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