Hornostaipil ( uk, Горностайпіль, russian: Горностайполь,
Yiddish
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: ''Horensteipl, Hornosteipel'') is a
Ukrainian
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village in northern
Ukraine
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, which is part of
Vyshhorod Raion
Vyshhorod Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Vyshhorod. It has a population of
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast ...
within
Kyiv Oblast
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. It belongs to
Ivankiv settlement hromada
Ivankiv ( uk, Іва́нків ) is an urban-type settlement in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast (oblast, province) of Ukraine. It is situated on the left bank of the Teteriv River. Ivankiv hosts the administration of Ivankiv settlement hromada, one o ...
, one of the
hromada
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s of Ukraine.
Geography
The village is located on the
Teteriv River
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In the underflow the valley of the Teteriv in Polissia on up to 4 km, the width of the river widens ...
and the
Kyiv Reservoir
The Kyiv Cistern ( uk, Київське водосховище, translit=Kyyivs’ke vodoskhovyshche), locally the Kyiv Sea, is a large Reservoir (water), water reservoir located on the Dnieper River in Ukraine. Named after the city of Kyiv, whi ...
. Part of the former
Chernobyl Raion
The Chernobyl Raion (russian: Чернобыльский район, translit=Chernobyl'skiy rayon) or Chornobyl Raion ( uk, Чорнобильський район, translit=Chornobylskyi raion) was one of 26 administrative raions (districts) o ...
until 1988, it is one of the few villages of this former district that was outside of the
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, Belarusian: Хона адчужэння Чарнобыльскай АЭС, ''Zona adčužennia Čarnobyĺskaj AES'', russian: Зона отчуждения Чернобыльской АЭС ...
.
History
Until 18 July 2020, Hornostaipil belonged to
Ivankiv Raion
Ivankiv Raion () was a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Ivankiv. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the numbe ...
. The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Ivankiv Raion was merged into
Vyshhorod Raion
Vyshhorod Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Vyshhorod. It has a population of
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast ...
.
From February to April 2022, Hornstaipil was
occupied
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by Russia as a result of the
2022 invasion.
Notable people
*Rabbi
Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky
Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky ( he, יעקב ישראל קַנִיֶּבְסְקִי), known as The Steipler or The Steipler Gaon (1899– 10 August 1985),
was an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and ''posek''
("decisor" of Jewish law), ...
was from Hornostaipil.
*Rabbi
Mordechai Dov Ber Twersky (Auerbach)
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Biblical acc ...
served as Rabbi in Hornosteipel from 1863 until his passing in 1903.
*Rabbi
Abraham J. Twerski is the uncle of the Grand Rabbi (
Rebbe
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) of the
Hornosteipel Hasid
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ic dynasty.
*Otaman
Struk was a warlord and pogromist from near Hornostaipil, active in the Civil War of 1918–1919.
[Mikhail Akulov, "War Without Fronts: Atamans and Commissars in Ukraine, 1917–1919."]
See also
*
Hornsteipl (Hasidic dynasty)
Hornosteipel (or Hornisteipol) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel Twerski. Hornosteipel (Yiddish: הארנאסטייפל ) is the Yiddish name of Hornostaypil, a town in present-day Ukraine.
It is a branch of the Ch ...
*
Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuc ...
References
Villages in Vyshhorod Raion
Villages in Chornobyl Raion
Radomyslsky Uyezd
Shtetls
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