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Iwye District
Iwye District ( be, Іўеўскі раён, Iŭeŭski rajon) is a district (rajon) in Grodno Region of Belarus. The administrative center is Iwye. Another notable settlement is Hieraniony (''Gieraniony''), a small historic town with two Category II objects of national cultural heritage (the castle and the parish church). Notable residents * Jan Pazniak (1887 or 1895, Subotniki - after October 1939), Belarusian politician and publisher, victim of Soviet repressions * Zianon Pazniak (born 24 April 1944), Belarusian politician, one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front The Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" (BPF, be, Беларускі Народны Фронт "Адраджэньне", БНФ; ''Biełaruski Narodny Front "Adradžeńnie"'', ''BNF'') was a social and political movement in Belarus in the late 1 ... and leader of the Conservative Christian Party – BPF Districts of Grodno Region {{Belarus-geo-stub ...
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Grodno Region
Grodno Region ( pl, Grodzieńszczyzna) or Grodno Oblast or Hrodna Voblasts ( be, Гродзенская вобласць, ''Hrodzienskaja vobłasć'', , ''Haradzienščyna''; russian: Гродненская область, ''Grodnenskaya oblast''; pl, Obwód Grodzieński; lt, Gardino sritis) is one of the regions of Belarus. It is located in the western part of the country. The capital, Grodno, is the biggest city in the region. It lies on the Neman River. It borders Minsk Region to the east, Brest Region to the south, Poland (Podlaskie Voivodeship) to the west and Vitebsk Region and Lithuania ( Alytus and Vilnius counties) to the north. Grodno's existence is attested to from 1127. Two castles dating from the 14th - 18th centuries are located here on the steep right bank of the Nemen. One of the city's surviving masterpieces is the 12th century Orthodox Church of St Boris & St Gleb (Kalozhskaya Church), which is the second oldest in Belarus. History This region was the weste ...
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Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of and with a population of 9.4 million, Belarus is the List of European countries by area, 13th-largest and the List of European countries by population, 20th-most populous country in Europe. The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, seven regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including Kievan Rus', the Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and t ...
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Iwye
Iwye ( be, Іўе ; lt, Yvija; russian: Ивье ; pl, Iwje; yi, איוויע ''Ivye'') is a city and former shtetl in Belarus in the Grodno Region, 158 km east of Grodno. It is a station on the railway line between Lida and Maladzyechna. It was the site of a dangerous rescue mission by the Bielski Brothers in late 1942, as the Germans prepared to liquidate the ghetto, as the area was occupied during Operation Barbarossa. The population of Iwye was 8,900 in 1995. People * Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, Rav of Vilnius, born in Iwye * Moshe Shatzkes, Rav of Iwye, 1913–1941 Sights * Saints Peter and Paul Church * Old wooden mosque External links In memory of the Jewish community of IwyePhotos on Radzima.orgWebsite of local television "Ивье ТВ"Iwyeat United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provi ...
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Jan Pazniak
Jan Pazniak (19 February 1887 or 1895 in Iwye District - after October 1939 in Minsk) was a Belarusian politician and publisher, serving as the chairman of the Vilnius Belarusian National Committee in the 1930s. He was arrested by the NKVD in October 1939 at the start of World War II and was probably shot by them in Minsk. He was the grandfather of Zianon Pazniak Zianon Stanislavavič Pazniak ( be, Зянон Станіслававіч Пазняк, born 24 April 1944) is a Belarusian nationalism, Belarusian nationalist politician, one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front and leader of the Co .... References Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain Belarusian politicians Belarusian publishers (people) {{Belarus-bio-stub ...
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Soviet Repressions In Belarus
Soviet repression in Belarus ( be, Савецкія рэпрэсіі ў Беларусі) refers to cases of persecution of people in Belarus under Soviet rule. Number of victims According to researchers, the exact number of people who became victims of Soviet repression in Belarus is hard to determine because the archives of the KGB in Belarus remain inaccessible to historians. ow doctors were exterminated in the BSSR– interview with Leanid Marakou, Belarus' top historian of Soviet repressions According to incomplete estimates, approximately 600,000 people fell victim to Soviet repression in Belarus between the October Revolution in 1917 and the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.В. Ф. Кушнер. Грамадска-палітычнае жыццё ў БССР у 1920–1930–я гг. // Гісторыя Беларусі (у кантэксьце сусьветных цывілізацыяў) С. 370. Other estimates rise the number to more than 1.4 million people, with 250,0 ...
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Zianon Pazniak
Zianon Stanislavavič Pazniak ( be, Зянон Станіслававіч Пазняк, born 24 April 1944) is a Belarusian nationalism, Belarusian nationalist politician, one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front and leader of the Conservative Christian Party – BPF. He was the Belarusian Popular Front nominee for President of Belarus in the 1994 Belarusian presidential election, 1994 election. Zianon Pazniak has lived in the United States since 1996. Biography Zianon Pazniak was born in the village of Subotniki in Baranavichy Voblast (present-day Grodno Region, Hrodna Region). He graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Belarusian State Institute of Theatre and Arts in 1967 and completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Ethnography, Art and Folklore in 1972. Upon completion of his university studies, Pazniak worked as an arts researcher. After a wave of Soviet political-administrative repressions in 1974 resulting in the loss of his work ...
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Belarusian Popular Front
The Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" (BPF, be, Беларускі Народны Фронт "Адраджэньне", БНФ; ''Biełaruski Narodny Front "Adradžeńnie"'', ''BNF'') was a social and political movement in Belarus in the late 1980s and 1990s which led Belarus to its independence from the Soviet Union. It was similar to the Popular Fronts of Latvia and Estonia, and the Sąjūdis movement in Lithuania. Creation The Belarusian Popular Front was established in 1989, following the examples of the Popular Fronts in the Baltic states. Its founding conference had to be organized in Vilnius because of pressure from the authorities of the Byelorussian SSR. Initially, the Popular Front united numerous minor organizations promoting the Belarusian language and history. However, soon the movement began voicing political demands, supporting the Perestroika and democratization in the Soviet Union which would enable a Belarusian national revival. The Popular Front was the f ...
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Conservative Christian Party – BPF
The Conservative Christian Party of the Belarusian People's Front ( be, Кансэрватыўна-Хрысьціянская Партыя - БНФ, Kanservatyŭna-Chryścijanskaja Partyja BNF; russian: Консервативно-христианская партия — БНФ) is a political party in Belarus that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. It was de facto formed after the split of the Belarusian People's Front in 1999. The 2004 Belarusian parliamentary election, October 2004 legislative elections were boycotted by the party, led by Zianon Pazniak. These elections fell according to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission significantly short of OSCE commitments. Universal principles and constitutionally guaranteed rights of expression, association and assembly were seriously challenged, calling into question the Belarusian authorities' willingness to respect the concept of political competitio ...
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Iwye District
Iwye District ( be, Іўеўскі раён, Iŭeŭski rajon) is a district (rajon) in Grodno Region of Belarus. The administrative center is Iwye. Another notable settlement is Hieraniony (''Gieraniony''), a small historic town with two Category II objects of national cultural heritage (the castle and the parish church). Notable residents * Jan Pazniak (1887 or 1895, Subotniki - after October 1939), Belarusian politician and publisher, victim of Soviet repressions * Zianon Pazniak (born 24 April 1944), Belarusian politician, one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front The Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" (BPF, be, Беларускі Народны Фронт "Адраджэньне", БНФ; ''Biełaruski Narodny Front "Adradžeńnie"'', ''BNF'') was a social and political movement in Belarus in the late 1 ... and leader of the Conservative Christian Party – BPF Districts of Grodno Region {{Belarus-geo-stub ...
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