Kobryn

Kobrin | Kobrin

Кобрын | Кобрин

( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )

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State :

Belarus

Woblasz :

Brest

Coordinates :

52 ° 13 ′ N , 24 ° 21 ′ E Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ N , 24 ° 21 ′ E

Residents :

51,300 (2009)

Time zone :

Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )

Telephone code :

(+375) 1642

Postal code :

BY - 225301, 225306, 225860

License plate :

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Kobryn

The building of the monastery before the war

Kobryn ( Belarusian Кобрын , Russian Кобрин (Kobrin), Polish Kobryń ) is one of the oldest cities in Belarus with around 50,000 inhabitants in the Breszkaja Woblasz .

The city in western Belarus is 50 km from Brest . She was in the 11./12. Founded in the 16th century and mentioned for the first time in 1287. It is located in the south-west of the country on the 52 ° 13 'latitude and the 24 ° 21' longitude. Kobryn represents the center of the Kobrin district within the Breszkaja Woblasz. It is located on the European route E30 and on the Dneprovsko-Bugsky Canal .

history

Kobryn was created as a fortified island settlement and fishing village at the mouth of the Kobrynka River into the Mukhavets . A two-part citadel with an upper and lower castle was built here. Kobryn was first mentioned as a city in 1287 in the Chronicle of Hypatius . In 1366, after the disintegration of the Turow-Pinsk principality, the Kobrin principality was formed, which was under the rule of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas and his successors until 1490 , and then belonged to Poland until 1529.

In 1586 the city came under the rule of the Polish Queen Anna Jagiellonka, daughter of Bona Sforza and Sigismund I. In 1589 the city of Magdeburg was granted town charter. In 1711, half of the city's population died of an epidemic. In 1766 Magdeburg rights were withdrawn from the city by the last Polish King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski. On September 18, 1794, the Russian field marshal Suvorov received the property over the rule of Kobryn with 700 peasants belonging to them from Catherine the Great . In the Battle of Kobrin in 1812, Russian troops defeated Napoleon's Saxon allies. 1882 The Pinsk - Shabinka railway line opens . During the First and Second World Wars Kobrin was occupied by German troops.

Attractions

city Park
Memorial to those who fell in the war against Napoleon
Suvorov Museum
Museum of the Second World War
Baptist Church
Ruins of the synagogue (see also: Jewish cemetery (Kobryn) )

Town twinning

Glarus (Switzerland)
Uelzen (Germany)

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Dzmitry Parchatscheu (* 1985), Belarusian football player
Oscar Zariski (1899–1986), mathematician

Connected with Kobrin

Zygmunt Ziółkowski (1889–1963) was mayor of Kobryn from 1937 to 1939.

Web links

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