Hornostaipil
Hornostaipil (Ukrainian: Горностайпіль, Russian: Горностайполь, Yiddish: הארנאסטייפל Horensteipl, Hornosteipel) is a Ukrainian village in the Ivankiv Raion, Kiev 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 | |
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| 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 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.[1]
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.[2]
gollark: Nihilism would be "nothing matters" or something.
gollark: We *will* destroy all plants.
gollark: Orbital nature lasers are already warming up.
gollark: And this seems too vaguely defined to be useful if you can just handwave any issue which does not in fact run on something like "balance" as being caused by some other imbalance.
gollark: Actually, no, they're partly just background radiation. Nobody is particularly responsible for this, on the majority of Earth.
See also
- Hornsteipl (Hasidic dynasty)
- Chernobyl disaster
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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