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The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*roocci), [2] supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...
2019 Census: Population classified by knowledge of the Belarusian and Russian languages by region and Minsk City (thousand) [26] Entity All population Of total population persons who indicated as Mother tongue Language normally spoken at home Belarusian Russian Belarusian Russian Republic of Belarus: 9413.4: 5094.9: 3983.8: 2447.8: 6718.6 Brest ...
The Brest region has a population of 1,380,391, [7] about 14,7% of the national total. About 47.2% of the region's population are men, and the remaining 52.8% are women. Number of inhabitants per 1 km2 is 43. [4] Share of urban population is increasing continuously since the 1950s (17.1% in 1950, 70.5% in 2017). [8]
Baranavichy (/ b ə ˈ r ɑː n ə v ɪ tʃ i / bə-RAH-nə-vitch-ee; Belarusian: Баранавічы, IPA: [baˈranavʲitʂɨ] ⓘ; Russian: Барановичи, romanized: Baranovichi [bɐˈranəvʲɪtɕɪ]; Yiddish: באַראַנאָוויטש; Polish: Baranowicze) is a city in Brest Region, western Belarus. [2]
After the region's annexation into the Byelorussian SSR, an active campaign of de-Ukrainisation and Russification began, with Ukrainian-language schools being closed and the Russian language being introduced. By 1940, there were 58 Ukrainian-language schools in Brest Region, [20] though this number later decreased to 30. [21]
Pinsk (Belarusian: Пінск; Russian: Пинск, IPA:; Polish: Pińsk; Ukrainian: Пінськ; Yiddish: פינסק) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus.It serves as the administrative center of Pinsk District, though it is administratively separated from the district. [1]
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Stolin is located at the heart of the Polesia region on the Horyn River, at the crossroads of two important routes, one leading northwards to Pinsk, two others eastwards to Davyd-Haradok and Turov, that are now in Belarus, southwards to Sarny and Kyiv, that are now in Ukraine.