Brahin (Brahin)

Brahin | Bragin

Брагін | Брагин

( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )

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State :

Belarus

Woblasz :

Homel

Founded :

1147

Coordinates :

51 ° 47 ' N , 30 ° 16' E Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ' N , 30 ° 16' E

Height :

113 m

Residents :

3,708 (2019)

Time zone :

Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )

Telephone code :

(+375) 2344

Postal code :

247630

License plate :

3

Community type:

Urban-type settlement

Postal address :

пл. Ленина, д. 4
247632 г. п. Брагин

Website :

www.bragin.gomel-region.by/ru

Brahin

Brahin ( Belarusian Брагін ; Russian Брагин Bragin ) is an urban-type settlement in the southwest of the Belarusian Homelskaya Woblasz and the administrative center of the Brahin Raion with about 3700 inhabitants.

Central square with a monument to the liquidator Vasily Ivanovich Ignatenko

Brahin House of Culture

The village was first mentioned in writing in the Hypatius Chronicle in 1147 as one of the largest cities in the Principality of Kiev . A meteorite named after the village was found near Brahin in 1807 .

As a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 45 km to the south , the settlement, like the entire Rajon, was exposed to radioactive contamination in 1986 and has since been one of the places most severely affected by the disaster.

In 2016, the largest solar power plant in Belarus went into operation in Brahin with an area of more than 41 hectares and a nominal output of 18.48 MW.

Geographical location

Brahin is on 113 m height on the banks of Braginka River , a 179 km long left tributary of the Pripyat at the edge of the Chernobyl exclusion zone near the Ukrainian border.

The settlement is located about 100 km southwest of Gomel and 350 km southeast of Minsk . In the village the trunk road P-125 ( H-42-79 ) meets the P-35 .