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Svietlahorsk Rajon
Svyetlahorsk District or Svietlahorsk District ( be, Светлагорскі раён, Svietlahorski rajon; russian: Светлогорский район) is a district ( raion) of Gomel Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Svyetlahorsk. As of 2024, it has a population of 75,845. Notable residents * Ihar Hermianchuk (1961, Strakavičy village – 2002), prominent Belarusian journalist and political activist * Ściapan Niekraševič Ściapan Niekraševič (also known as Stepan Nekrashevich, ; 8 May 1883 — 20 December 1937) was a Belarusian academic, political figure and a victim of Stalin’s purges. Early years Niekraševič was born in the estate of Daniłoŭka in Mi ... (1983, the estate of Daniłoŭka - 1937), Belarusian academic, political figure and a victim of Stalin’s purges References {{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] |
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] |
Regions Of Belarus
At the top level of administration, Belarus is divided into six ''oblasts'' (''voblasts'' or provinces). The city of Minsk, has a special status as the capital of Belarus. Minsk is also the capital of Minsk Region. at the website of the Belarus embassy in . At the second level, the regions are divided into ''s'' (districts). The layout and extent of the regions were set in 1960 when Belarus (then the ) formed ... [...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] |
Svyetlahorsk
Svyetlahorsk (, ) or Svetlogorsk (russian: Светлогорск), previously known as Shatsilki. until 1961, is a town in Gomel Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Svyetlahorsk District. It is situated on the Berezina River. In 2019, its population was 67,054. As of 2024, it has a population of 62,602. ''Svyetlаhorsk-na-Byarezinye'' (Svyetlаhorsk-on-Byarezina) is also a railroad station on the Zhlobin — Kalinkavichy railway line. It has suffered radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster. Town structure Svyetlahorsk is divided into two major parts: agricultural-industrial area on the east of Svyetlahorsk and the residential area on the west of Svyetlahorsk. There are no occupied residential buildings in its industrial area (apart from ''lechebno-trudovoy profilaktoriy'', which is a type of prison of the Soviet legacy, dedicated to forced rehab of alcoholics and drug-addicts). Industrial area The industrial area's main street is the ''Zavad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Time
Moscow Time (MSK, russian: моско́вское вре́мя) is the time zone for the city of Moscow, Russia, and most of western Russia, including Saint Petersburg. It is the second-westernmost of the eleven time zones of Russia. It has been set to UTC+03:00 without DST since 26 October 2014; before that date it had been set to UTC+04:00 year-round on 27 March 2011. Moscow Time is used to schedule trains, ships, etc. throughout Russia, but airplane travel is scheduled using local time. Times in Russia are often announced throughout the country on radio stations as Moscow Time, which is also registered in telegrams, etc. Descriptions of time zones in Russia are often based on Moscow Time rather than UTC. For example, Yakutsk ( UTC+09:00) is said to be MSK+6 in Russia. History Until the October Revolution, the official time in Moscow corresponded to GMT+02:30:17 (according to the longitude of the Astronomical Observatory of Moscow State University). In 1919 the Council ... [...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] |
Raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is commonly translated as "district" in English. A raion is a standardized administrative entity across most of the former Soviet Union and is usually a subdivision two steps below the national level, such as a subdivision of an oblast. However, in smaller USSR republics, it could be the primary level of administrative division. After the fall of the Soviet Union, some of the republics kept the ''raion'' (e.g. Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) while others dropped it (e.g. Georgia, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan). In Bulgaria, it refers to an internal administrative subdivision of a city not related to the administrative division of the country as a whole, or, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihar Hermianchuk
Ihar Hermianchuk (other spellings: Hermyanchuk, Hiermianchuk; ''Ігар Гермянчук'' in Belarusian; January 1, 1961 – April 29, 2002) was a famous Belarusian journalist and political activist. He was a chief editor of Belarus' most popular opposition newspaper in 1990s (" Svaboda", founded again as " Naviny" after being banned by Alexander Lukashenko, and again closed), served as a member of Belarus parliament (12th adjourning of the Supreme Soviet The Supreme Soviet (russian: Верховный Совет, Verkhovny Sovet, Supreme Council) was the common name for the legislative bodies (parliaments) of the Soviet socialist republics (SSR) in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ... of BSSR), was a vehement supporter of Belarus' independence, a member of Belarusian Popular Front, a founder and an editor-in-chief of the "Kurjer" magazine. He died from cancer in 2002. External links Ihar Hermianchuk : Belarusian Editor Braves Regime's Tightening Noose(In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ściapan Niekraševič
Ściapan Niekraševič (also known as Stepan Nekrashevich, ; 8 May 1883 — 20 December 1937) was a Belarusian academic, political figure and a victim of Stalin’s purges. Early years Niekraševič was born in the estate of Daniłoŭka in Minsk province of the Russian Empire (nowadays in Śvietłahorsk district of Homiel region of Belarus) into the family of a petty nobleman. He graduated from the Vilna Teachers' Institute in 1913 and embarked on a teaching career. During World War I he was conscripted into the Russian Imperial Army. Involvement in the Belarusian independence movement While in the army, Niekraševič became involved with an organisation of Belarusian soldiers on the Romanian Front and in 1917 organised a conference in the city of Odessa. He published a bulletin for Belarusians in southern Ukraine. He accepted the authority of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and agreed to represent the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in southern Ukraine and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
