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Hornostaipil

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Country
  
Ukraine

Founded
  
1294

Area
  
3 km²

Oblast
  
Kiev

Area code(s)
  
+380 4591

Local time
  
Tuesday 10:15 PM

Hornostaipil

Raion
  
Chernobyl (1923–1988) Ivankiv (since 1988)

Weather
  
3°C, Wind N at 6 km/h, 90% Humidity

Hornostaipil (Ukrainian: Горностайпіль, Russian: Горностайпель, Yiddish: הארנאסטייפל Horensteipl, Hornosteipel) is a Ukrainian village in the Ivankiv Raion, Kiev Oblast.

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Map of Hornostaipil', Kyivs'ka oblast, Ukraine

Geography

The village is located on the Teteriv River and the Kiev 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.

Personalities

  • Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky was from Hornostaipil.
  • Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski is the uncle of the Grand Rabbi (Rebbe) of the "Hornosteipel Hasidic sect."
  • Otaman Struk was a warlord and pogromist from near Hornostaipil, active in the Civil War of 1918–1919.

    • References

    Hornostaipil Wikipedia
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