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Zhodino
Zhodzina (officially transliterated as Žodzina, also spelled Zhodino, be, Жо́дзіна, , russian: Жо́дино, , pl, Żodzino, is a city in Belarus, located in the Minsk Region, 50 km north-east of Minsk. The city covers an area of 19 km² and has a population of 65,451 (2021). History The settlement is first mentioned in 1688, belonging to the Radziwiłł family. It has had city status since 1963. On 13 August 2020, Zhodzina was the site of the first large-scale worker strike in Belarus, at the BelAZ automobile plant, in protest of the contested results of the 2020 Belarusian presidential elections. Geography The city, the most populated in the Smalyavichy District, is situated north-east of Minsk and south-west of Barysaw. Zhodzina is divided by the Plisa river, and it has a small lake in its southern suburb. Education There are nine schools, two high schools, one professional lyceum and Zhodzina Polytechnical College in the city. Currently, there are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusian Premier League
The Belarusian Premier League or the Vyšejšaja Liha or the Vysheyshaya Liga ( be, Вышэйшая ліга, russian: Высшая лига, "Top League") is the top division of professional football in Belarus, and is organized by the Belarusian Football Federation. The number of teams in the competition has varied over the years from as high as 17 (1992–93 season) to as low as 11 (2012). As of 2016, the league included 16 teams. Each team plays every other team twice during the course of the season. At the end of the season, the two teams with the fewest points are automatically relegated to the Belarusian First League, while the third worst team plays a promotion-relegation playoff against the third best team from the second tier. The top two teams from the Belarusian First League automatically win promotion to the Premier League. Shakhtyor Soligorsk are the current champions, after winning their second championship title in 2021. History The Belarusian Premier League was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino ( be, ФК Тарпеда-БелАЗ Жодзіна, ''FK Tarpeda-BelAZ Zhodzina''; , ''Futbolniy klub Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino'') is a Belarusian football club based in Zhodino. They play in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football. Their home stadium is Torpedo Stadium. The club is sponsored by the city's machine building factory BelAZ. History ;Name: *1989: BelAZ Zhodino *1993: Torpedo Zhodino *2011: Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Honours * Belarusian Cup ** Winners: 2015–16 :: Runners-up: 2009–10 * Belarusian Super Cup :: Runners-up: 2011, 2017 * Football Championship of the Belarusian SSR ** Winners: 1970, 1971, 1980, 1981 Current squad ''As of December 2022'' League and Cup history *1 Play-off for the 2011 Premier League spot against the 2010 First League runners-up SKVICH Minsk. *2 Play-off for the 2013 Premier League spot against the 2012 First League runners-up Gorodeya. To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikalay Kashewski
Mikalay Mikalayavich Kashewski ( be, Мікалай Мікалаявіч Кашэўскі, russian: Николай Николаевич Кашевский, ''Nikolay Nikolayevich Kashevsky''; born 5 October 1980) is a Belarusian football coach and former player. Career Kashewski has made 13 appearances for the Belarus national football team. Honours Gomel *Belarusian Cup winner: 2010–11 *Belarusian Super Cup winner: 2012 Shakhtyor Soligorsk *Belarusian Cup winner: 2013–14 Spartaks Jūrmala *Latvian Higher League champion: 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ... References External links * * * 1980 births Living people People from Zhodzina Belarusian footballers Belarus international footballers Belarusian expatriate footballers Expatriate footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarpeda Stadium (Zhodzina)
Torpedo Stadium ( Belarusian: Стадыён «Тарпеда», ''Stadyjon Tarpeda''; Russian: Стадион «Торпедо») is a multi-purpose stadium in Zhodino, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino. The stadium was opened in 1969, renovated in 2011, and currently holds 6,524 people. The stadium hosted an international friendly between 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 ... and Honduras on 24 March 2021. References External links Stadium profile at Torpedo-BelAZ website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhodzina Polytechnical College
Zhodzina (officially transliterated as Žodzina, also spelled Zhodino, be, Жо́дзіна, , russian: Жо́дино, , pl, Żodzino, is a city in Belarus, located in the Minsk Region, 50 km north-east of Minsk. The city covers an area of 19 km² and has a population of 65,451 (2021). History The settlement is first mentioned in 1688, belonging to the Radziwiłł family. It has had city status since 1963. On 13 August 2020, Zhodzina was the site of the first large-scale worker strike in Belarus, at the BelAZ automobile plant, in protest of the contested results of the 2020 Belarusian presidential elections. Geography The city, the most populated in the Smalyavichy District, is situated north-east of Minsk and south-west of Barysaw. Zhodzina is divided by the Plisa river, and it has a small lake in its southern suburb. Education There are nine schools, two high schools, one professional lyceum and Zhodzina Polytechnical College in the city. Currently, there are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BelAZ
BelAZ ( be, Беларускі аўтамабільны завод, translit=Belaruski autamabilny zavod, lit=Belarusian Automobile Plant, russian: Белорусский автомобильный завод or БелАЗ) is a Belarusian automobile plant and one of the world's largest manufacturers of large and especially large dump trucks, as well as other heavy transport equipment for the mining and construction industries. ''BelAZ'' is a site for one of the largest Commonwealth of Independent States investment projects. The factory finalized two of the three scheduled phases of the technical re-equipment and upgrades. The Quality Management System applied in research and development, fabrication, erection and after-sale service of the equipment complies with international ISO 9000 standards. History *In 1948, a peat extraction machinery plant was constructed by the railroad station Žodzina. *In 1958 it was renamed into BelAZ. Initially it produced MAZ trucks. *In 1961 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. The zone uses daylight saving time, so that it uses UTC+03:00 during the summer. A number of African countries use UTC+02:00 all year long, where it is called Central Africa Time (CAT), although Egypt and Libya also use the term ''Eastern European Time''. The most populous city in the Eastern European Time zone is Cairo, with the most populous EET city in Europe being Athens. Usage The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time all year round: * Egypt, since 21 April 2015; used EEST ( UTC+02:00; UTC+03:00 with daylight saving time) from 1988–2010 and 16 May–26 September 2014. See also Egypt Standard Time. * Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia), since 26 October 2014; also used EET in years 1945 and 1991–2011. See also Kaliningrad Time. * Libya, since 27 October 2013; switched from Central European Time, which was u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is an Alpha global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Golovchenko
Roman Alexandrovich Golovchenko ( be, Раман Аляксандравіч Галоўчэнка, Raman Aliaksandravič Haloŭčenka; , Russian: Роман Александрович Головченко; born 10 August 1973) is a Belarusian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Belarus since 4 June 2020. Early life and professional activity He was born on 10 August 1973 in Zhodzina as an only child. His father Alexander Nikolaevich Golovchenko graduated from the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute and worked as an engineer in the design bureau of Minsk Tractor Works. Roman Golovchenko lived in Zhodzina up until the age of 10, when he moved with his parents to Minsk, where he graduated from high school. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1996. He also graduated from the Academy of Public Administration in 2003. Career In 2013, he was made Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, and was then also responsible for representing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minsk Region
Minsk Region or Minsk Oblast or Minsk Voblasts ( be, Мі́нская во́бласць, ''Minskaja voblasć'' ; russian: Минская о́бласть, ''Minskaya oblast'') is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative center is Minsk, although it is a separate administrative territorial entity of Belarus. As of 2011, the region's population is 1,411,500. Geography Minsk Region covers a total of 39,900 km², about 19.44% of the national total area. Lake Narach, the largest lake in the country, is located in the northern part of the region. There are four other large lakes in this region: Svir (8th largest), Myadel (11th largest), Syalyava (14th largest) and Myastro (15th largest). It is the only region of Belarus whose border is not part of the international border of Belarus. History Beginning the 10th century, the territory of the current Minsk Region was part of Kievan Rus', the Principality of Polotsk, and later it was included in the Grand Duchy of Lithua ... [...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] |
Smalyavichy Raion
Smalyavichy District ( be, Смалявіцкі раён, Smalavicki rajon; russian: Смолевичский район, Smolevičskij raion) is a second-level administrative subdivision (raion) of Belarus in Minsk Region. Its seat is the town of Smalyavichy but the most populated one is Zhodzina. History The district was created on 17 July 1924. Geography Overview Situated in the north-east of its Region, Smalyavichy District borders with the districts of Minsk, Lahoysk, Barysaw and Chervyen. In its territory is located the International Airport of Minsk. It is crossed by the M1 motorway, part of the European route E30. Main settlements *Zhodzina ( be, Жодзiна; russian: Жодино) – 61,800 ( [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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