Mikashevichy

Mikashevichy | Mikashevichi

Мікашэвічы | Микашевичи

( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )

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State :

Belarus

Woblasz :

Brest

Founded :

1785

Coordinates :

52 ° 13 ′ N , 27 ° 28 ′ E Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ N , 27 ° 28 ′ E

Height :

127 m

Residents :

12,855 (2015)

Time zone :

Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )

Telephone code :

(+375) 1647

Postal code :

225687

License plate :

1

Website :

mikashevichi.ru/home.html

Mikashevichy

Mikashevichy is a small town in Belarus . The population was 12,855 in 2015.

location

Mikaschewitschy is located north of the Pripyat near the confluence of the Slutsch in the extreme southeast of the Breszkaya Woblasz in the Luninez district, immediately south of the M10 highway, around 258 km east of Brest . The railway line from Brest to Mazyr runs through the village .

history

Church in Mikashevichy in 1937

The place was first mentioned in 1785. Secret negotiations between Russian and Polish emissaries took place here during the Polish-Soviet War in the second half of 1919. In 1921 the area of the place was ceded to Poland and was named Mikaszewicze . In 1939 it was annexed by the Soviet Union and incorporated into the Belarusian SSR . In 1941 it was occupied by the German Reich in the course of the attack on the Soviet Union , but was recaptured by the Soviet Union in 1944. Since then, the city has been part of the Belarusian SSR and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belarus. In 1950 Mikashevichy became the capital of the Rajons; his Rajon was added in 1960 to the Luninez Rajon . In 1976 a major quarry was opened. Mikashevichy received city rights in 2005.

Sports

The FK Hranit Mikaschewitschy (Граніт Мікашэвічы) currently (2018) plays in the Perschaja Liha , the second highest division in Belarus.

Personalities

Svyatlana Zichanouskaja (* 1982), Belarusian non-party civil rights activist

Web links

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

Remarks

↑ Kai von Jena: Polish Ostpolitik after the First World War. The problem of relations with Soviet Russia after the Riga Peace of 1921 (= series of quarterly journals for contemporary history. Volume 40). DVA, Stuttgart 1980 p. 22.

[1] Kai von Jena: Polish Ostpolitik after the First World War. The problem of relations with Soviet Russia after the Riga Peace of 1921 (= series of quarterly journals for contemporary history. Volume 40). DVA, Stuttgart 1980 p. 22.