Niamiha Flood 2004
Niamiha or Nemiga may refer to: * Niamiha River, Minsk, Belarus *Niamiha Street, Minsk, Belarus *Nemiga (Minsk Metro) Nyamiha ( be, Няміга) is a Minsk Metro The Minsk Metro ( be, Мінскі метрапалітэн, russian: Минский метрополитен) is a rapid transit system that serves Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Opened in 1984, i ...

Niamiha River
The Nyamiha (, ; , Nemiga, ) is a river in Minsk. Today it is contained within a fabricated culvert. It discharges into the Svislach. The first mention of the river in historical chronicles is connected with the disastrous Battle on the Nemiga River, which took place on the riverbank in 1067, when the forces of the prince of Kievan Rus' defeated the forces of Polatsk princedom. The medieval epic The Tale of Igor's Campaign refers to the "bloody river banks of Nyamiha." Lines from the famous epic detail the battle: ''On the Nemiga the spread sheaves are heads,'' ''the flails that threshare of steel,'' ''lives are laid out on the threshing floor,'' ''souls are winnowed from bodies.'' ''Nemiga’s gory banks are not sowed'' ''goodly-sown with the bones of Russia’s sons.'' For a long time it was the second largest river flowing through Minsk, until it was adapted for its urban location by containment within a network of pipes. One part of the river was put into a pipe in 1926, a ...
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Niamiha Street
Niamiha Street (also Nyamiha, Nemiga; be, Вуліца Няміга; russian: Улица Немига) is a street named after the river of the same name in central Minsk, Belarus. From the 1960s to the 2010s, the street was completely reconstructed losing all but one original building on it. History and architecture The street along the river of the same name appeared in the 12th century near the Minsk castle. It is considered to be one of the oldest streets in Minsk.Минск: энциклопедический справочник. Минск, 1983 insk: encyclopedic reference. Minsk, 1983 P. 286–287. In 16th–18th centuries, it was named ''Nemigskaya''. It became the main street of the Lower market district and a major shopping street. From the beginning of the 17th century this narrow street started to be built up with 2 and 3-storey baroque and classicist buildings. Due to geographical features of the terrain the river used to flood often. In the late 19th century the ...
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