Kozyn

{{short description|Rural locality in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine}}

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|official_name = Kozyn

|native_name = Козин

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|subdivision_name2 = Obukhiv Raion

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|population_total = 3,300

|population_as_of = 2001

|established_date = 1000

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|postal_code = 08711—08712

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Kozyn ({{langx|uk|Козин}}) is a rural settlement in Obukhiv Raion of Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kozyn settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.{{cite web|title= Козинська громада |url=https://gromada.info/gromada/kozyn/ |work=Gromada.info|language= ru|accessdate= 16 June 2022}} Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|3,536}}.

Kozyn is situated on the rivers Dnieper and the 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.'Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel, translated by Boris Dralyuk (London: Pushkin Press, 2014).

Until 26 January 2024, Kozyn was a designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Kozyn became a rural settlement.{{cite news |title=Что изменится в Украине с 1 января |url=https://glavnoe.in.ua/ru/novosti/chto-yzmenytsya-v-ukrayne-s-1-yanvarya |work=glavnoe.in.ua |lang=ru| date=1 January 2024}}

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