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Брагинский районный исполнительный комитет
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in Belarus and an administrative center of Brahin Rajon. It stands on the banks of

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, 28 km from the nearest railway ( Chojniki station), and has a population of 3,700.

History

The settlement is first mentioned in the

in 1147Въ лѣто 6654 (1146) — въ лѣто 6655 (1147)
ПСРЛ. — Т. 2. Ипатьевская летопись. — СПб., 1908. — Стлб. 327-360. as the important town of the Kyiv princedom. A significant part of Brahin's population traditionally was of Jewish descent. By the end of 19th century, 2,254 of 4,311 inhabitants were Jewish."Raspredelenie naseleniya mest Rossiyskoy Imperii po chislennosti naseleniya. Vseobshchaya perepis’. Materialy ob economicheskom polozhenii evreev v Rossii.(1898) (ed. Evr.Kol.O-va), a
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, Brahin was under

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occupation from 28 August 1941 to 23 November 1943. Many Jews in the area were killed by the German forces during that time:"Ghettos in the Gomel Region: Commonalities and Unique Features, 1941-42" by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D., Diaspora Research Center Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of the Humanities Tel Aviv University
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On September 13, 1941, the Jews of Bragin were ordered to gather in a school for the purposes of selecting a monitor and his deputy, but when 300 Jews came at the indicated time the school they were surrounded by Germans and closed. After that, Jews were led out in groups to the edge of the village and shot.

As a result of the

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, areas of the Brahin district were radioactively contaminated. 52 settlements were resettled, 9 of which are buried. From Brahin itself 1,651 families (4,892 people) were resettled.

Notable residents

Siarhiej Palujan (1890 - 1910), Belarusian writer and publicist

Awards

In 2019, the city of Bragin received a passing pennant, a certificate and a cash award from the republican budget as the best settlement with a population of up to 10 thousand inhabitants in terms of sanitary condition and improvement.

References

External links

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at Belarus.by Urban-type settlements in Belarus Populated places in Gomel Region Brahin District Dregovichs Kiev Voivodeship Rechitsky Uyezd Holocaust locations in Belarus {{Belarus-geo-stub