Kozyn

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Kozyn
Козин
Urban-type settlement
Kozyn is located in Kiev Oblast
Kozyn
Kozyn
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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

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  2. Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel, translated by Boris Dralyuk (London: Pushkin Press, 2014).

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