Hornostaipil
Hornostaipil (Ukrainian: Горностайпіль, Russian: Горностайполь, Yiddish: הארנאסטייפל Horensteipl, Hornosteipel) is a Ukrainian village in the Ivankiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast.
Hornostaipil
Горностайпіль | |
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  Hornostaipil Location of Hornostapil in Ukraine  Hornostaipil Hornostaipil (Ukraine) | |
| Coordinates: 51°4′15″N 30°15′8″E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Kyiv Oblast |
| Raion | Chernobyl (1923–1988) Ivankiv (since 1988) |
| Founded | 1294 |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,033 |
| Area code(s) | +380 4591 |
Geography
The village is located on the Teteriv River and the Kyiv Reservoir. Part of the former Chernobyl Raion until 1988, it is one of the few villages of this former district outside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.[1]
Personalities
- Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky was from Hornostaipil.
- Rabbi Mordechai Dov Ber Twersky (Auerbach) served as Rabbi in Hornosteipel from 1863 until his passing in 1903.
- Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski is the uncle of the Grand Rabbi (Rebbe) of the Hornosteipel Hasidic dynasty.
- Otaman Struk was a warlord and pogromist from near Hornostaipil, active in the Civil War of 1918–1919.[2]
References
- "Map of the Chernobyl Raion" (in Ukrainian). Chernobyl & Chernobylyane. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- Mikhail Akulov, "War Without Fronts: Atamans and Commissars in Ukraine, 1917–1919."
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