Gustantive, Russia?

Gary Romsaas

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Anyone have an idea where Gustantive, Russia is located?

Gary Romsaas

Max Wiessman is at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/GCYJ-L45

Alina743

I assume your relative was Jewish, so the place must be more or less within the 'pale of settlement. ' I can't think of anything but the following options:
Kozyatyn, Vinnytsa Oblast -
Husyatin (Gusyatin) in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. There was a large Jewish community
https://myshtetl.org/ternoplskaja/husyatin.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husiatyn
However, the region belonged to Austro-Hungary and only became part of the Soviet Union in 1940's…

-Koziatyn, Vynnitsa oblast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koziatyn

-Gusinovo/Gusinove in Smolensk oblast, Russia. The Russian wiki page says the village has existed since the years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and had an alternative name Густенино, which sounds very similar to what you wrote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusino_(village),_Krasninsky_District,_Smolensk_Oblast

-Staro-Konstantinyv, or simply Konstaninyv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starokostiantyniv

less likely, but still possible:
Hornostaipil, Kyiv oblast
Kostychany, Chernivtsy oblast (formerly Bessarabia)
Ustynivka - Kyrovohrad oblast
I'm not an expert in Belarussian, Lithuanian or Latvian places, but on wikipedia and russian and ukrainian geneaology forums, I didn't find anything similar in those countries.
There's a russian speaking jewish forum where you could also ask, and here's a subforum for english-speakers https://forum.j-roots.info/viewforum.php?f=101&sid=fb757dafd5dc68c4ac1c74007d9f3942

Hope this helps