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Baranavichy
Baranavichy ; Russian: 袘邪褉邪虂薪芯胁懈褔懈; Yiddish: 讘讗址专讗址谞讗指讜讜讬讟砖; Polish: Baranowicze) is a city in the Brest Region of western Belarus, with a population (as of 2019) of 179,000. It is notable for an important railway junction and is home to Baranavichy State University.
Baranovichy District
Baranavichy District is a district of Brest Region, in Belarus. Its administrative center is Baranavichy.
Baranavichy Voblast
Baranavichy Oblast was a territorial unit in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic created after the annexation of West Belarus into the BSSR in November 1939. The administrative centre of the province was the city of Baranavichy.
Belorussian Military District
The Byelorussian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces. Originally formed just before World War I as the Minsk Military District out of the remnants of the Vilno Military District and the Warsaw Military District, it was headed by the Russian General Eugen Alexander Ernst Rausch von Traubenberg.
Baranovich
Baranovich may refer to:
Lazar Baranovych
Lazar Baranovych or Baranovich September 1693 in Chernihiv, Tsardom of Russia) was a Ruthenian Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Polish鈥揕ithuanian Commonwealth and then of the Tsardom of Russia. Ecclesiastical, political, and literary figure, professor (1650) and rector of the Kievan Mohyla College, bishop and archbishop of Chernihiv from 1657.
Baranovichi offensive
The Baranovichi offensive was a battle fought on the Eastern Front during World War I between an army of Russia and the forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary in July 1916.
Baranovichi (air base)
Baranovichi is an air base of the Air Force of Belarus and formerly of the Soviet Air Force. It has the ICAO airport code UMMA.It is located to the south of the city of Baranovichi.
Yeshiva Ohel Torah-Baranovich
Yeshiva Ohel Torah-Baranovich, commonly referred to as the Baranovich Yeshiva or simply as Baranovich, was an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Baranavichy, Belarus . Established circa 1906 by Rabbi Yosef Yoizel Horowitz, the Alter of Novardok (Navahrudak), it attracted leading rabbis such as Rabbi Yisroel Yaakov Lubchansky and Rabbi Avraham Yoffen as instructors, but was forced to disband with the outbreak of World War I. After the war, Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman, a student of the Radin Yeshiva who had been forced into exile in Smilavichy during the hostilities, agreed to serve as rosh yeshiva (dean) upon the recommendation of the Chofetz Chaim.
Molodechno Region
Maladzyechna Voblast or Molodechno Oblast was a Voblast of the Byelorussian SSR. Initially the Voblast was formed on December 4, 1939 following the annexation of West Belarus into the BSSR from the Second Polish Republic as the Vileyka Voblast. However after the liberation of Byelorussia by the Red Army in July 1944, most of the pre-war civil administration was not possible for a number of reasons, one of which was that the city of Vileyka was heavily damaged during the war, and the transportation links between it and the rest of the Voblast were too.
Maladzyechna
Maladzyechna is a city in the Minsk Region of Belarus, an administrative centre of the Maladzyechna District (and formerly of the Maladzyechna Voblast). It has 98,514 inhabitants (2006 estimate) and is located 72 km northwest of Minsk.
Molodyozhny
Molodyozhny , Molodyozhnaya (feminine), or Molodyozhnoye (neuter) may refer to:
Baranovichi Offensive
The Baranovichi Offensive was a battle fought on the Eastern Front during World War I between an army of Russia and the forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary in July 1916.