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Puchavičy District
Pukhavichy District (Pukhavichsky Rajon) is a second-level administrative subdivision (raion) of Belarus in the east of Minsk Voblast. The capital of the town is Marjina Horka. Geography ;Main settlements *Marjina Horka Marjina Horka or Maryina Gorka ( be, Мар'іна Горка; russian: Марьина Горка; pl, Maryjna Górka) is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus, and the administrative center of Pukhavichy District. As of 2009 its population was 22,500 ... (22,500) * Svislač (4,053) * Rudziensk (2,900) * Praŭdzinski (2,900) * Šack * Družny * Puchavičy Notable residents * Michaś Čarot (1896, Rudziensk - 1937), Belarusian poet, playwright, novelist, and a victim of Stalin's purges * Aliaksandr Čarviakoŭ (1892, Dukorki village - 1937), Belarusian politician and publicist * Hienadź Klaŭko (1931, Varoničy village – 1979), Belarusian poet and translator Vykankam Chairpersons The following people held the post at various times. *Siarhei Turko (Сер ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Belarus
Districts of Belarus (raion) are second-level administrative territorial entities of Belarus. In Belarus, raions (russian: район; be, раён, rajonAccording to thInstruction on Latin Transliteration of Geographical Names of the Republic of Belarus, Decree of the State Committee on Land Resources, Surveying and Cartography of the Republic of Belarus dated 23.11.2000 No. 15recommended for use by the Working Group on Romanization Systems of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) — . See also: Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script; Romanization of Belarusian.) are administrative territorial entities subordinated to oblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom of ...s. List References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šack
Shatsk ( be, Шацк, Šack; russian: Шацк) is an agrotown in Pukhavichy District, Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Shatsk selsoviet. As of 2012, its population was 667. It is located south of Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi .... References External links * Holocaust locations in Belarus Populated places in Pukhavichy District Agrotowns in Belarus {{Belarus-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hienadz Kliauko
, image = , imagesize = , caption = , pen-name = , birth_name = , birth_date = December 28, 1931 , birth_place = village Varoničy, Puchavičy District, Minsk Voblast, Republic of Belarus , death_date = August 21, 1979 , death_place = Minsk, Republic of Belarus , occupation = Poet and translator , nationality = Belarusian , period = 1949-1979 Hienadź Klaŭko (also: Gennady Klevko, Belarusian: ''Гена́дзь Кляўко́'', Russian: ''Генна́дий Клевко́'') (December 28, 1931 (officially May 1, 1932) – August 21, 1979) was a Soviet Belarusian poet and translator. Biography Hienadź Klaŭko was born on December 28, 1931, in the village of Varoničy, which is situated in Puchavičy District, Minsk Voblast, Republic of Belarus. After graduating from secondary school in 1950, he entered the Faculty of Philology of the Belarusian State University. After graduation in 1955 he started working for magazines and new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Chervyakov
Alexander Grigoryevich Chervyakov (Aliaksandr Charviakou, be, Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Чарвякоў, ''Aliaksandr Ryhoravič Čarviakoŭ'' russian: Александр Григорьевич Червяков, ''Aleksandr Grigor'evič Červjakov''; 25 February 1892 — 16 June 1937) was a Soviet Politician and revolutionary and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Byelorussia, who eventually became the leader of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Chervyakov became the first chairman of the Belarusian Sovnarkom and in 1918 was appointed as a narkom of Belnatskom (Belarusian Nationality Committee) that was established in the Russian Narkomnat on Nationalities headed by Joseph Stalin. He is considered an “engine” of the policy of Belarusisation in the 1920s, working to establish a Belarusian national university, preserve cultural artefacts and protect historical monuments. Born at Dukorki in 1892, he joined the Bolshevik Party in May 1917 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leanid Marakou
Leanid Marakou ( be, Леанід Маракоў; russian: Леонид Моряков; April 15, 1958 in Minsk – December 17, 2016) was a Belarusian journalist, writer. Biography Marakou ( Belarusian: Леанід Маракоў, Russian: Леонид Моряков, pseudonyms: Vladimir Moryakov, Anatole Sinchukousky) graduated from the Minsk Radioengineering Institute in 1984. He worked as a maintenance engineer at the Minsk Computer Plant, then at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. In 1990s, Marakou became an importer of electronic equipment. Marakou spent some years in the 1990s investigating the fate of his uncle, Valery Marakou, a poet in the 1930s, who was executed by the Bolsheviks. Study of the poet's biography (about which L. Marakou has publishea monographlater on), as well as those of other perished relatives had grown into a systematic and professional research of history of all repressed during the Stalin's period cultural and public figures of Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaś Čarot
Michaś Čarot (also spelled ''Mihas Charot''; , name at birth: Michaś Simonovich Kudzielka be, Міхаі́л Сымо́навіч Кудзе́лька; 7 November 1896 - 29 October 1937) was a Belarusian poet, playwright, and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms of Maksim Byadneyshi (Максім Бяднейшы), Jurka Kurtati (Юрка Куртаты), and V. Čarot (В.Чарот). He was a victim of Stalin's purges and rehabilitated in 1956 during the Khruschev Thaw. Early years Čarot was born into a peasant family in the town of Rudziensk, Ihumienski Uyezd of the Minsk Governorate of the Russian empire (nowadays in Puchavičy district, Minsk region of Belarus). Čarot's grandfather was a weaving master and received the surname appropriate to his profession from the lord, while the poet's grandmother worked as a nurse in the lord's palace. He had two brothers and sisters: Pavlo (engineer and home teacher), Alexander (agronomist), Maria (cook) and Nastya (actress). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puchavičy (Minsk Region)
Puchavičy ( be, Пухавічы, ''Puchavičy'' pl, Puchowicze, russian: Пухавичи ''Pukhavichi'') is a village in Puchavičy District, Minsk Voblast, Belarus, capital of Puchavičy Selsoviet (Puchavičy Rural District). History In December 1926, 929 Jews lived in the village, 43 percent of the total population. The Germans occupied the town at the end of June 1941. The Jewish population were murdered in 1941.http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=495 The murder of the Jews of Pukhavichy] during World War II, at Yad Vashem website. References Notable residents Anatol Volny Anatol' Volny (left) and Mihas' Charot {{Expand Belarusian, Анатоль Вольны, date=June 2017 Biography From the family of a civil servant. In 1911, he entered the Abbot's Gymnasium, received secondary education. He graduated from the ... - was a Belarusian artist, poet, writer and journalist. Villages in Belarus Holocaust locations in Belarus Puchavičy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praŭdzinski (Puchavicki Rajon)
Prawdzinski ( be, Праўдзінскі, Praŭdzinski; russian: Правдинский, Pravdinsky) is an urban-type settlement in Pukhavichy District, Minsk Region, 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 R .... As of 2023, it has a population of 2,288. References Urban-type settlements in Belarus Populated places in Pukhavichy District {{Belarus-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital (political)
A capital city or capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational entity, usually as its seat of the government. A capital is typically a city that physically encompasses the government's offices and meeting places; the status as capital is often designated by its law or constitution. In some jurisdictions, including several countries, different branches of government are in different settlements. In some cases, a distinction is made between the official (constitutional) capital and the seat of government, which is in another place. English-language news media often use the name of the capital city as an alternative name for the government of the country of which it is the capital, as a form of metonymy. For example, "relations between Washington and London" refer to " relations between the United States and the United Kingdom". Terminology and etymology The word ''capital'' derives from the Latin word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudziensk
Rudziensk ( be, Рудзенск, Rudziensk - russian: Руденск, pl, Rudzieńsk) is a municipality and town in Belarus, located in the Minsk Region. It is part of the Pukhavichy Raion and its population, as of 2010, was of 2,800 History Rudensk received the status of "urban-type settlement" (Городской посёлок) in 1938. Geography Rudensk is located in south-eastern suburb of Minsk and is circa 50 km far from it, and 20 from Maryina Horka. Its nearest urban-type settlements are Svislach and Pravdinsky. Rudensk counts a railway station on the Minsk-Babruysk-Gomel line. Sport Local football club is the FC Rudensk, that in 2010 joined the Belarusian First League The Belarusian First League is the second tier of professional football in Belarus. It was created in 1992, following the Belarusian independence. History and format The typical format of the league involves 16 clubs playing a double round-robin t .... Though the team officially represents the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svislač (Puchavicki Rajon)
Svislach or Śvislač ( be, Свiслач, ; russian: Сви́слочь, Svisloch; pl, Świsłocz; yi, סיסלעוויטש or ''Sislevitch''; lt, Svisločius) is a town in the South-West of Grodno Region, Belarus, an administrative center of the Svislach district. It is connected with Vaŭkavysk by a railroad branch and with Grodno by a highway. International phone number prefix: 375-15-13. History Within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Svislach was part of Nowogródek Voivodeship. In 1795, Svislach was acquired by the Russian Empire in the course of the Third Partition of Poland. In 1927, Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Mishkinsky, whose wife Chaya was the granddaughter of Rabbi Naftali Hertz Halperin of Bialystok, was appointed the rabbi of Svislach. He led the community until the Nazis entered in November 1942 murdering the entire Jewish community. Prior to the war, Rabbi Mishkinsky sent his sons and to Israel (Palestine). Rabbi Mishkinsky's great-granddaughter, Batya Friedman, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
