Hornostaipil

Hornostaipil Горностайпіль
Village
Hornostaipil Location of Hornostapil in Ukraine
Coordinates: 51°4′15″N 30°15′8″E / 51.07083°N 30.25222°ECoordinates: 51°4′15″N 30°15′8″E / 51.07083°N 30.25222°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kiev
Raion	Chernobyl (1923–1988) Ivankiv (since 1988)
Founded	1294
Population
• Total	1,033
Area code(s)	+380 4591

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

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]

See also

• Hornsteipl (Hasidic dynasty)
• Chernobyl disaster

References

1. "Map of the Chernobyl Raion" (in Ukrainian). Chernobyl & Chernobylyane. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
2. Mikhail Akulov, "War Without Fronts: Atamans and Commissars in Ukraine, 1917-1919."