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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 ...
"On June 22, 1941, the arrival of the Germans marked the death of 3 children: Kolya Kozlovsky, 3 years old, Moisey, 3 years old, and Ivan, 4 years old, and the wounding of Roman, 6 years old, and Nadezhda, 7 years old. 15 Jewish children aged 2 to 12 were taken from the orphanage and placed in the ghetto, and then 14 of them were shot, and only ...
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on 3 March 1918. The signatories were Soviet Russia signed by Grigori Sokolnikov on the one side and the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire on the other. The treaty marked Russia's final withdrawal from World War I as an enemy of her co
Kobryn (Belarusian: Кобрын; Polish: Kobryń; Ukrainian: Кобринь; Yiddish: קאָברין) or Kobrin (Russian: Кобрин), is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Kobryn District. [1] It is located in the southwestern corner of Belarus, where the Mukhavets river and Dnieper–Bug Canal meet.
After the death of his son Stanislav in 1542 the town passed to the widow of the latter, Barbara Radziwiłł, who in 1547 married the heir to the Polish throne, bringing to him the numerous possessions of the Goštautas family. On April 10, 1572, Sigismund II Augustus transferred the town to the castellan of Vilna, Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz.
During the Livonian War, Sharashova was a gathering point for Polish–Lithuanian troops in 1578 against Ivan IV of Russia after he had occupied Livonia. [4] In the 1790s, Sharashova had an estimated population of 3,360. [5] At the 1897 census of the Russian Empire, the settlement had a population of 5,079. [5]
Brest is the province with the highest birth rate in all of Belarus. As of 2008, the birth rate was 12.0 per 1000 and death rate was 13.4 per 1000. [10] In 2017, 12.4% of live births were to unmarried women (average in Belarus — 18.1%). [11]
The 3 fortifications were named after two towns: Russian name for the city of Kobryn in Belarus, Terespol in Poland and Volyn, a historic region of Volhynia majorly located in Ukraine. The Kobrin Fortification was the biggest in the fortress, located in the northeastern part, shaped like a horseshoe, featured 4 fortification curtains , 3 ...