Hanavichy

Hanzavichy | Ganzevichi
Ганцавічы | Ганцевичи
( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )
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State :	Belarus
Woblasz :	Brest
Founded :	1898
Coordinates :	52 ° 46 ′  N , 26 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 46 ′  N , 26 ° 26 ′  E
Height :	157  m
Residents :	14,043 (2015)
Time zone :	Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )
Telephone code :	(+375) 1646
Postal code :	225440, 225431, 225432
License plate :	1
Hanavichy

Hanzavichy is a small town in Belarus . In 2015 the population was 14 043.

location

Hanzawitschy is located in the historical landscape of Polesia around 57 km south-southeast of Baranavichy on the Zna , a tributary of the Pripyat , in the east of the Breszkaja Woblasz and is the main town of the Hanzawitschy district . The railway line from Baranavichy to Sarny in the Ukraine runs through the town .

history

The city developed from a village in the Ujesd of Sluzk around the train station and has been an independent municipality since 1898. From 1921 to 1939 Hanzawitschy (under the name Hancewicze) was part of Poland; then it was annexed by the Soviet Union and incorporated into the Belarusian SSR. In 1941 the city was occupied by the German Reich. In the course of the murder of the Jewish population, disguised as "fighting partisans", units of the 1st SS Cavalry Regiment under SS Sturmbannführer Gustav Lombard shot 2,500 Jews on August 11, 1941 . In July 1944 the place was retaken by the Soviet Union. Since then it has been part of the Belarusian SSR and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belarus.

A radar system from the Russian early warning system is located near the city.

Web links

Commons : Hancavičy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus-Jürgen Bremm: The Waffen SS - Hitler's Overrated Praetorians . wbg Theiss, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8062-3793-1 , p. 151 .
2. ↑ Final report of August 11, 1941 in: Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv Freiburg, RS 4/441.