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In 1795, Zhabinka was acquired by the Russian Empire as a result of the Third Partition of Poland. The name of the place was first mentioned in Russian official papers in 1817. In 1882, a railway station was built here on the railway line that connected Warsaw, Brest and Moscow. It gave a powerful impetus to the development of the place.
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]
Lyeninski (Belarusian: Ленінскі, romanized: Lieninski; Russian: Ленинский, romanized: Leninsky; Polish: Leninski) is an agrotown in Zhabinka District, Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Leninski rural council . [1] [2] It is located close to the border with Poland.
Zhabinka District (Belarusian: Жабінкаўскі раён; Russian: Жабинковский район) is a district of Brest Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Zhabinka. [1] Administratively, the district is divided into seven rural councils. It is the smallest district in the country by area.
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]
In 1660 the Russian voevod Ivan Andreevich Khovansky was unable to take the fortress. [3] During the Swedish invasion of Poland in the Great Northern War, in 1706, the castle, defended by the Cossacks, was handed over to the Swedes after a long siege and partially destroyed. [3]
Within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Davyd-Haradok was part of Brest Litovsk Voivodeship. In 1793, Davyd-Haradok was acquired by the Russian Empire in the course of the Second Partition of Poland . The 18 March 1921 Peace of Riga between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine on the other defined Davyd-Haradok (Dawidgródek) as ...
Byaroza (Belarusian: Бяроза, romanized: Biaroza; [a] Russian: Берёза, romanized: Beryoza; also spelled Bereza), [2] formerly Byaroza-Kartuzskaya, [b] is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Byaroza District. [1] As of 2024, it has a population of 28,376. [1]