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Rechytsa District
Rechytsa District, Rečycki Raion ( be, Рэчыцкі раён) is a district in Gomel Region, Belarus. Its administrative center is Rechytsa. Notable residents * Yury Zakharanka Colonel Yury Zakharanka (Belarusian language, Belarusian: ''Юрый Захаранка'', Russian language, Russian: ''Юрий Захаренко'', ''Yuri Zakharenko''; January 1, 1952 – 1999) was the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affai ... (1952, Vasilyevichy town – 1999), Belarusian Minister of Internal Affairs and opposition politician disappeared in 1999 * Uladzimir (Vladimir) Yarets (b. 1941, Karavacičy), round-the-world traveler References External links *Official site*Official site Districts of Gomel Region {{Belarus-geo-stub ... [...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] |
Gomel Region
Gomel Region or Gomel Oblast or Homiel Voblasts ( be, Го́мельская во́бласць, Homielskaja vobłasć, russian: Гомельская область, Gomelskaya oblast) is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative center is Gomel. The total area of the region is , the population in 2011 stood at 1,435,000 with the number of inhabitants per km2 at 36. Important cities within the region include: Homiel, Mazyr, Zhlobin, Svietlahorsk, Rechytsa, Kalinkavichy, Rahachow and Dobrush. Both the Gomel Region and the Mogilev Region suffered severely from the Chernobyl disaster. The Gomel Province borders the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in places, and parts of it have been designated as mandatory or voluntary resettlement areas as a result of the radioactive contamination. Administrative territorial entities Gomel Region comprises 21 districts and 2 city municipalities. The districts have 278 selsovets, and 17 cities and towns. Districts of Gomel Region * Akciabrski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rechytsa
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Yury Zacharanka
Colonel Yury Zakharanka ( Belarusian: ''Юрый Захаранка'', Russian: ''Юрий Захаренко'', ''Yuri Zakharenko''; January 1, 1952 – 1999) was the Belarusian Minister of Internal Affairs and opposition politician abducted and likely killed in 1999. Early life Yury Zakharanka was born in a small town of Vasilyevichy, Rechytsa Raion. Political career At the moment when Belarus gained independence Zakharanka was deputy chief of the USSR MVD Inter-regional Directorate for Combating Organized Crime. In 1994 he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus. On October 16, 1995 he was dismissed from this position by president Alexander Lukashenko. Zakharanka joined the opposition to the president and was elected member of the governing board of the United Civic Party of Belarus. Having strong support among top officers in the army and the State Security Committee (KGB), Zakharanka was a dangerous enemy for Lukashenko. Abduction The ex-minister disap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasilievichy
Vasilievichy ( be, Васілевічы, ; russian: Василевичи, Vasilevichi; pl, Wasilewicze) is a city in Gomel Region, Belarus. History Within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vasilievichy was part of Minsk Voivodeship. In 1793, the town was acquired by the Russian Empire in the course of the Second Partition of Poland. During World War II, Vasilievichy was occupied by the German Army from 25 August 1941 until 18 November 1943. Climate Vasilievichy has a humid continental climate (Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ... ''Dfb'') with warm to hot summers, with cold winters, albeit still mild for being so far inland at such a high latitude. Notable people * Yury Zacharanka – Belarusian minister of internal affairs and oppositional politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Yarets
Vladimir Yarets (Владимир Алексеевич Ярец; born May 5, 1941 – December 9, 2021) was round-the-world traveler from Belarus. He was born in the then-Soviet republic of Belarus. In early childhood he became deaf from a blast during World War II. From childhood he had great aspiration for traveling. As a teenager he crossed the Soviet Union from Minsk to Magadan, covering about in 148 days on a Jawa 50. Later he made many other trips around the Soviet Union on motorbike. On May 27, 2000, he began his current round-the-world trip in Minsk, Belarus. He traveled around Europe, into north-west Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ... to Western Sahara region to Morocco. Then he crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Spanish Canary Islands into Venezuela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rechytsa District
Rechytsa District, Rečycki Raion ( be, Рэчыцкі раён) is a district in Gomel Region, Belarus. Its administrative center is Rechytsa. Notable residents * Yury Zakharanka Colonel Yury Zakharanka (Belarusian language, Belarusian: ''Юрый Захаранка'', Russian language, Russian: ''Юрий Захаренко'', ''Yuri Zakharenko''; January 1, 1952 – 1999) was the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affai ... (1952, Vasilyevichy town – 1999), Belarusian Minister of Internal Affairs and opposition politician disappeared in 1999 * Uladzimir (Vladimir) Yarets (b. 1941, Karavacičy), round-the-world traveler References External links *Official site*Official site Districts of Gomel Region {{Belarus-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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