Slavuta is a city

City

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 in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

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 (province

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) of western Ukraine

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, located on the Horyn River

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. Serving as the administrative center of the Slavutsky Raion (district

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), the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is located approximately 80 km from the oblast capital, Khmelnytskyi

Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

Khmelnytskyi is a city in Ukraine in the region of Podillia. It is located on the Southern Buh River and about from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The town's original name was Płoskirów, later Proskurov, but in 1954 was renamed Khmelnytskyi. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western...

, at around 50°18′N 26°52′E.

Slavuta was founded as the family seat of the Sanguszko

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 princes. Between 1922 and 1939 it was on the Soviet border with Poland

Second Polish Republic

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.

In 1791 the Szapira family set up a Hebrew printing press in Slavuta, which published an influential edition of the Talmud

Talmud

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. Moshe Feldenkrais

Moshé Feldenkrais

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was born in Slavuta on May 6, 1904.