What is "kozyn"

Kozyn is an urban-type settlement in Obukhiv Raion of Kiev Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. Population: .

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

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.'