Rahachow or Rahačoŭ ( be, Рагачо́ў, ; russian: Рогачёв, Rogachyov, also transliterated Rogachev; pl, Rohaczów; yi, ראגאטשאוו, ''Rogatshov'', ) is a town in the
Gomel Region of
Belarus. It is center of
Rahachow District. Rahachow is located at , between the
Drut and
Dnieper rivers. The population is 34,727 (2004 estimate).
The town is first mentioned in 1142 in Russian chronicles. From the late thirteenth century it was part of the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and then the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1772 the Rahačoŭ District was annexed by the
Russian Empire.
On 16 July 1863 the local landowner Tomasz Hryniewicz was executed here by a Russian firing squad for leading the Rahačoŭ detachment of Polish insurgents.
During
World War II, Rahačoŭ was occupied by the
German Army
The German Army (, "army") is the land component of the armed forces of Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German ''Bundeswehr'' together with the ''Marine'' (German Navy) and the ''Luftwaf ...
from 2 July 1941 to 13 July 1941, and again from 14 August 1941 to 24 February 1944.
The notable
Rabbi
A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as '' semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form o ...
,
Yosef Rosen (1858–1936), known as the Rogatshover Gaon ("The Genius of Rogatshov" (the
Yiddish
Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...
pronunciation of Rahachow), was born and raised here. The artist
Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan was born (1902) and brought up here, as was former
NHL hockey player
Sergei Bautin. Rahachow also has a popular dairy product factory, whose products are supplied across Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
Sights
* Church of St. Anthony of Padua
* Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky
* "Castle Hill" - a hill on which the castle of Queen Bona was located
* Monument to the founding of the city in the center of the "Castle Hill" with the inscription "From here the city of Rogachev went in the summer of 1142."
* Jewish Cemetery in Rahachow
* The building of the former zemstvo council
* House of merchant Belenky
* Eco-Museum "Belarusian Lyalka"
* Museum of Popular Glory
* House of
Uladzimir Karatkievich's grandfather
* Monument to
condensed milk
Condensed milk is cow's milk from which water has been removed (roughly 60% of it). It is most often found with sugar added, in the form of ''sweetened condensed milk'' (SCM), to the extent that the terms "condensed milk" and "sweetened condens ...
* Rahachow booms
* Icon of the Mother of God with four hands
* Three family tombs - Greshnerov, Iolshinov, Verzheisky
* Memorial to the leader of the national liberation uprising of 1863 Tomas Grinevich
References
External links
Photos on Radzima.org
Populated places in Gomel Region
Towns in Belarus
Radimichs
Minsk Voivodeship
Rogachyovsky Uyezd
Populated places on the Dnieper in Belarus
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