Korostel', Korosten',Коростень. 58°12' N 37°53' E. 169.5 miles N of Moskva.
CEMETERY
- burial listing in progress [Apr 2014]
- KOROSTEN I: US Commission No. UA05370101
- Korosten is located in Zhitomirskaya at 50º57 28º39, 87 km from Zhitomir and 146 km from Kiev. The cemetery is located at west part of town, Lenina Street # 66-68. Present town population is 25,001-100,000 with 1,001-10,000 Jews.
- Town officials: Town Council -Vygovskiy Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich [Phone: (04142) 43031].
- Local officials: Town Council of Culture - Bondarchuk Ivan Grigoriyevich [Phone: (04142) 41506].
- Korosten Jewish Community - Krasina Street 23 [Phone: (04142) 42265] Korosten Jewish Community - Pionerskaya Street 33.
- The earliest known Jewish community was 1778. 1926 Jewish population (census) was 5969. Effecting Jewish Community was 10.08.1941 Holocaust. Living here was poet Daet Leonid Abramovich (1929). The last known Hasidic burial was 1941. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds site. No stones are visible. Stones were removed to municipal cemetery. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality owns the site used for housing. Adjacent properties are residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of housing development. The cemetery is visited rarely. The cemetery was not vandalized in the last ten years. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Very serious threat: vandalism and existing nearby development. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access and proposed nearby development. Slight threat: weather erosion, pollution and vegetation.
- Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street 107, Apt. 42. [Phone: (04141) 54259] visited site on 6/5/95 and completed survey on 07/05/1995. Interviewed were Kozachenko Petr Korneevich of Korosten, Lenina Street 59 on 6/5/95 and Kipnis Yakov Evseevich of Korosten, Pionerskaya 33 on 22/04/1995.
- KOROSTEN II: US Commission No. UA05370501
- The mass grave is located at southwest part of town. The unlandmarked, Hasidic mass grave was dug in 1941.No Jews from other towns or villages were murdered here. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A continuous fence with no gate surrounds site. 1 to 20 stones, all in original location with none toppled or broken and no stones removed, date from 1990. Some tombstones have metal fences around graves. The site contains marked mass graves. The municipality owns the property. Adjacent properties are residential. Occasionally, organized individual tours and Jewish or non-Jewish private visitors stop. This mass grave has not been vandalized. Local/municipal authorities did re-erection of stones and cleared vegetation. Restoration was done in 1990. Now, authorities occasionally clean or clear site. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, preventing access. Moderate threat: vandalism. Slight threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion, pollution and vegetation.
- Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street 107, Apt. 42. [Phone: (04141) 54259] visited site and completed survey on 4/5/95 and interviewed Kipnis Yakov Evseevich of Pionerskaya Street 33.
- KOROSTEN III: US Commission No. UA05370102
- The cemetery is located at west part, K.Libnehta Street, near rail station "Zhitomirskaya". Effecting the Jewish Community were 1926 opening of Jewish Pedagogical Technical School, 1927- rabbinical congress of of Ukraine and 1941 when nearly 5000 Jews were shot to death. Living here was poet Daen Leonid Abramovich, 1929-1996. The Jewish cemetery was established in 1935. Rabbi Iegoshua Haim died here in 1938. The last known Hasidic burial was 1996. Ushomir (18 km away) used this unlandmarked cemetery. The suburban flat land, part of a municipal cemetery, has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A continuous masonry wall with non-locking gate surrounds the cemetery. 501 to 5000 stones, most in original location with less than 25% of surviving stones toppled or broken, date from 1914. No stones were removed. The cemetery has no special sections. Some tombstones have traces of painting on their surfaces, iron decorations or lettering, other metallic elements, portraits on stones, and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains marked mass graves. The municipality owns Jewish section (sq. of cem 15 hectares). Adjacent properties are agricultural and railroad. The cemetery boundaries is larger now than 1939. Occasionally, organized Jewish group tours, pilgrimage groups, organized individual tours, Jewish or non-Jewish private visitors, and local residents stop. The cemetery was vandalized occasionally in the last ten years. Local/municipal authorities and Jewish individuals within country did re-erection of stones and cleared vegetation 1950-1990. The government pays the regular caretaker. Within the limits of the cemetery are an ohel and well. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, preventing access. Moderate threat: vegetation. Slight threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion, pollution and vandalism.
- Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street 107, Apt. 42 [Phone: (04141) 54259] visited site and completed survey on 10/7/96 and interviewed Kipnis Yakov Evseevich of Pionerskaya Street 33. Documentation: Jewish Encyclopaedia; I. Beytsblit Movement of Jewish People in Ukraine, 1930.