Ismail Alieksandrovič
Ismail Mustafavič Alieksandrovič ( be, Ісмаіл Мустафавіч Александровіч; russian: Исмаил Мустафович Александрович, ''Ismail Mustafovich Aleksandrovich''; 18 July 1929 – 25 September 2024) was a Belarusian mufti who was leader of the Muslim Religious Community of the Republic of Belarus from its founding in 1994 until 2005. Early life Alieksandrovič was born on 18 July 1929 in Kletsk, in what was then the Second Polish Republic. In his early years, he received an Islamic education from his family in addition to secular education. His family was significant in the Kletsk Muslim community; his father, Mustafa Jasufovič Alieksandrovič, was elected imam in 1939, and held the position until being coerced into resignation by the government of the Soviet Union in 1953. The same year, Ismail graduated from the Belarusian National Technical University as a civil engineer. From 1954 to 1956, Alieksandrovič worked as a fo ...
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Kletsk
Kletsk ( be, Клецк, Klieck, originally known as ''Klechesk'', russian: Клецк, pl, Kleck, ) is a city in the Minsk Region of Belarus, located on the Lan River. In 2015 it had 11,237 inhabitants. History The town was founded in the 11th century by the Dregovichs, who erected a large fort and a tribal centre there. In the 14th century the town became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the wake of the Polish–Lithuanian Unions. In the 1506 Battle of Kleck, the Polish-Lithuanian forces under Michał Gliński defeated the Tartar armies and saved the town from being pillaged. Soon afterwards, the town became a property of the Radziwiłł magnate family, who started to attract Jewish settlers to the area. The earliest known mention of the local Jewish community is a document dated 5 September 1522, issued by King Sigismund I the Old of Poland. In it, the monarch awarded for three years to Isaac Jesofovitch, a Jew ...
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