Kozyn

Kozyn (Ukrainian: Козин) is an urban-type settlement in Obukhiv Raion of Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kozyn settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 3,536 (2022 estimate).

Kozyn
Козин
Urban-type settlement
Kozyn
Kozyn
Coordinates: 50°13′N 30°39′E
CountryUkraine
Oblast Kyiv Oblast
RaionObukhiv Raion
Founded1000
Population
 (2001)
  Total3,300
Postal code
08711—08712
Area code+380 4472

Kozyn is situated on the rivers Dnieper and Kozynka, 25 km. to the south of Kyiv.

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.'

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