Ivanawa

Ivanawa | Ivanovo

Іванава | Иваново

( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )

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State :

Belarus

Woblasz :

Brest

Founded :

15th century

Coordinates :

52 ° 9 ' N , 25 ° 32' E Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ' N , 25 ° 32' E

Height :

140 m

Area :

10 km²

Residents :

16,435 (2019)

Population density :

1,644 inhabitants per km²

Time zone :

Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )

Telephone code :

(+375) 1652

Postal code :

225791

License plate :

1

Community type:

city

Website :

ivanovo.brest-region.gov.by

Ivanawa

Iwanawa ( Belarusian Іванава ; Russian Иваново Iwanowo , Polish Janów ) is a city with about 16,400 inhabitants in the southwest of the Republic of Belarus .

Panorama Iwanawa

Iwanawa has had city status since 1972 and is the administrative center of the Iwanawa Rajon in the south of Woblasz Brest .

Geographical location

The city is located in the historic Polesian landscape on the M 10 highway 136 km east of the Woblasz capital Brest , 40 km west of the city of Pinsk and 290 km southwest of the state capital Minsk . The trunk road "P-144" leads south from Iwanawa to the Ukrainian border about 30 kilometers away .

history

Postcard of the village from 1916

The village was first mentioned in the 15th century. At that time, the village of Porkhov (Порхово) was located on the site of today's town. In 1465, Bishop Jan Laskowitsch (Russian Ян Ласкович ) renamed the place in Janów. In the 15th century the community received the status of a city for the first time. In 1497, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Alexander the Jagiellon , allowed three fairs to be held there every year.

As a result of the third partition of Poland , Iwanawa came to the Russian Empire in 1795 and remained there until it was annexed to the Second Polish Republic in accordance with the Riga Peace Treaty in 1921 .

In September 1939, after being occupied by the Red Army , the town fell to the Soviet Union . In 1941, the village was from the army occupied and of Nazi Germany the Reich Commissariat Ukraine struck. In 1944 Iwanawa came to the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic and remained there until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independence of Belarus in 1991. In 1939 the village was given its current name and in 1972 it was promoted to city.

population

Population development
1897	1959	1970	1979	1989	2009	2014	2019
3041	3867	5401	9912	13,581	16,086	16,597	16,435

Source: 1897, from 1959

sons and daughters of the town

Polly Adler (1900–1962), American brothel operator

Web links

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

City sights

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Cities in Belarus on pop-stat.mashke.org; accessed on October 18, 2019
↑ Ivanovo (Brest region) in the Drevo Orthodox Encyclopedia , accessed June 3, 2015
↑ ^a ^b City history on the city's website , accessed on June 2, 2015

[Demographische_Entwicklung-1] Cities in Belarus on pop-stat.mashke.org; accessed on October 18, 2019

[2] Ivanovo (Brest region) in the Drevo Orthodox Encyclopedia , accessed June 3, 2015

[Ortsgeschichte-3] City history on the city's website , accessed on June 2, 2015