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Dzyarzhynsk or Dzerzhinsk (Belarusian: Дзяржынск, romanized: Dziarzhynsk; [a] Russian: Дзержинск), formerly known as Koydanava until 1932, [b] [2] is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Dzyarzhynsk District. [1] As of 2024, it has a population of 29,796. [1]
Shukhov Tower on the Oka River, the unique architectural construction—the 128-meter (420 ft) steel lattice hyperboloid tower built by Soviet engineer and scientist Vladimir Shukhov in 1929—is located near Dzerzhinsk on the left bank of the Oka River. There used to be two towers, but one was stolen for scrap metal in 2005. [citation needed]
Western Belorussia or Western Belarus (Belarusian: Заходняя Беларусь, romanized: Zachodniaja Biełaruś; Polish: Zachodnia Białoruś; Russian: Западная Белоруссия, romanized: Zapadnaya Belorussiya) is a historical region of modern-day Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period.
Nyeharelaye or Negoreloe (Belarusian: Негарэлае, romanized: Nieharelaje; Russian: Негорелое, romanized: Negoreloye; Polish: Niehorele) [1] is an agrotown in Dzyarzhynsk District, Minsk Region, [2] Belarus. [3] Until 2009, it had the status of urban-type settlement. [4]
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
Dzyarzhynsk District or Dziaržynsk District [2] (Belarusian: Дзяржынскі раён; Russian: Дзержинский район) is a district of Minsk Region in Belarus. [1] The administrative center of the district is Dzyarzhynsk. [3] [1] As of 2024, it has a population of 70,391. [1] The highest point of Belarus is situated in the ...
Russia has advanced into the northwestern side of Ukraine’s assault as well as to the southeast of Sudzha, the main city held by Kyiv’s troops in Kursk, located on the other side of the attack.
Koidanov (Yiddish: קאידנאוו) is a Hasidic dynasty originating from the city of Dzyarzhynsk (Koidanov), Belarus, where it was founded by Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Perlow (1797–1862) in 1833. Koidanov is a branch of both Lechovitch Hasidism and Karlin-Stolin Hasidism as Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Perlow was the paternal grandson of Rabbi Mordechai of ...