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Vitebsk, Viciebsk ou Vitsyebsk é uma cidade localizada no nordeste da Bielorrússia, na província de Viciebsk, região dos lagos glaciares, perto de três pitorescos rios, entre eles o rio Duína Ocidental. Possui 366 299 habitantes.
- Viciebsk (voblast)
Viciebsk é uma das seis voblasts (província) da...
- Viciebsk (voblast)
- Middle Ages
- Modern Era
- World War II
- Post-War Period
- Independence of Belarus
Vitebsk developed from a river harbor where the Vićba River (Віцьба, from which it derives its name) flows into the larger Western Dvina, which is spanned in the city by the Kirov Bridge. Archaeological research indicates that Baltic tribes had settlements at the mouth of Vitba. In the 9th century, Slavic settlements of the tribal union of the Kriv...
From 1503 it was the capital of the Vitebsk Voivodeship. In 1569 it became part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1597 Vitebsk was granted Magdeburg rights and a coat of arms by Sigismund III Vasa. However, the rights were taken away in 1623 after the citizens revolted against the imposed Union of Brest and killed Archbishop Josaphat Kuntse...
During World War II, the city came under Nazi German occupation (11 July 1941 – 26 June 1944). During Operation Barbarossa, 22,000 Jews, or 58% of Vitebsk's Jewish population, managed to successfully evacuate to the interior of the Soviet Union, thus saving themselves from the impending Holocaust. Much of the old city was destroyed in the ensuing b...
In the first postwar five-year period the city was rebuilt. Its industrial complex covered machinery, light industry, and machine tools. In 1959, a TV tower was commissioned and started broadcasting the 1st Central Television program.
In January 1991, Vitebsk celebrated the first Marc Chagall Festival. In June 1992, a monument to Chagall was erected on his native Pokrovskaja Street and a memorial inscription was placed on the wall of his house. Since 1992, Vitebsk has been hosting the annual Slavianski Bazaar, an international music festival. The main participants are artists fr...
A Bielorrússia está dividida em seis vóblasts (em bielorrusso: voblastsi, singular voblasts - na época da União Soviética: óblasti, singular óblast - província ou região) e o município (horad) de Minsk, que possui estatuto administrativo especial de capital.
Mahilou ou Mogilev (bielorrusso Магілёў /Mahilëŭ; russo Могилёв /Mogiljow, antiga transcrição alemã Mogilew) é uma cidade na Bielorrússia, no leste do país, próxima à fronteira com a Rússia, às margens do rio Dnieper. É a capital da província de Mahilou.
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Brest (em bielorrusso: Брэсцкая вобласць) é uma das seis voblasts (província) da Bielorrússia. Sua capital é a cidade de Brest. Distritos. A voblast de Brest está dividida em 16 distritos (rayoni, singulas rayon): Baranavicy; Biaroza; Brest; Drahicyn; Hancavicy; Ivacevicy; Ivanava; Kamianiec; Kobryn; Lachavicy ...
