Ostropol, Ukraine
Stary Ostropil , Ostropolya, Ostropolia, אסטראפאער (Yiddish), Старий Острополъ (Ukr), Старый Острополъ (Rus)
Shimshon ben Pesah of Ostropolye 1600-1648... YIVO encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA
Samson of Ostropol the famous Kabalist Rabbi (1600-1648) whose writing are receited on Passover and who was massacred during the Chemnitike progroms.
Hershele of Ostropol, Wikipedia YIVO encyclopedia Google books Amazon Books MIT Scratch Book
(1770{?}-1810) Served as the Shohet in Ostropol and became famous for his humour. The forerunner of modern Jewish standup.
S.S Koteliansky 1882-1955 (Samuel Solomonovich) : Amazon Books
He grew up in Ostropol and then moved to London. He became a friend of of D, H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. A wonderfull book by Galya Diment tells his story in Ostropol and London.
Isak Vaynshelboym : Brooklyn Art Fuller Listing Jewish Art Guild
He was born and grew up in Ostropol before WW2. He served in the Russian army and now lives and paints in Brighton Beach NY. He has painted wonderful picture of the Ostropol he knew. See examples of his work at Brooklyn Art and a fuller listing at the same organization. You can also find his work at the Jewish Art Guild.
Vladimir Volodarsky : Revevolutionary Silhouettes Wikipedia
(Moisei Markovich Goldstein) 1891 -1918 an early Russian revolutionary exiled to Siberia in 1908, then migrated to the US. In 1917 he returned to take an leading part in the October revolution and was a colleque of Trotsky, Zinoview. He was was assasinated in 1918. Lunacharsky give a vivid description of him in Revevolutionary Silhouettes.