Chojniki

Chojniki | Choiniki
Хойнікі | Хойники
( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )
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State :	Belarus
Woblasz :	Homel
Coordinates :	51 ° 54 ′  N , 29 ° 58 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′  N , 29 ° 58 ′  E
Height :	128  m
Area :	20.5  km²
Residents :	12,388 (2019)
Population density :	604 inhabitants per km²
Time zone :	Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )
Telephone code :	(+375) 2346
Postal code :	247600
License plate :	3
Community type:	city
Postal address :	ул. Советская, д. 86 247622, ​​г. Хойники
Website :	hoiniki.gov.by/ru/
Chojniki

Chojniki ( Belarusian Хойнікі ; Russian Хойники Choiniki ) is a city in Homelskaya Woblasz in southeast Belarus . The city with about 12,300 inhabitants is the administrative center of the Chojniki Raion .

Chojniki Park

Church in Chojniki on a photo from 1912

Geographical location

The city is located at an altitude of 128  m , 100 km southwest of Homel and 60 km east of Mazyr . Chojniki has a station through it with Homel, Wassilewitschy ( Васілевічы ) and Kalinkavichy is connected. In the south of the city the trunk road P-33 meets the P-35 .

South of Chojniki is the Polish State Radio-Ecological Protected Area , which was established after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 60 km to the south, in today's Ukraine .

history

Chojniki was first in 1512 as a village in the county Brahin the Kiev province in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania mentioned in writing. From August 25, 1941 to November 23, 1943, the village was occupied by the Wehrmacht .

On October 10, 1967, Chojniki received city status. The region around Chojniki has been one of the areas hardest hit by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster since 1986.

sons and daughters of the town

• Wiktar Hantscharenka (* 1977), Belarusian football player and coach

Population development

Source:

Web links

Commons : Chojniki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chojniki . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 1 : Aa-Dereneczna . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1880, p. 620 (Polish, edu.pl ).
• Article on the village (Russian)
• Chojniki in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia on dic.academic.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Cities in Belarus on pop-stat.mashke.org; accessed on October 26, 2019
2. ^ Geography of the city on the official website of Chojniki Raion; accessed on October 26, 2019
3. ↑ History of the city on the official website of Chojniki Raion; accessed on October 26, 2019