Mszislau

Mszislau | Mstislavl

Мсціслаў | Мстиславль

( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )

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State :

Belarus

Woblasz :

Mahiljou

Coordinates :

54 ° 1 ′ N , 31 ° 43 ′ E Coordinates: 54 ° 1 ′ N , 31 ° 43 ′ E

Residents :

11,700 (2004)

Time zone :

Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )

Mszislau

Mstsislaw ( Belarusian Мсціслаў (academic spelling) Амсьціслаў (classical orthography), Mścisłaŭ , Amścisłaŭ , Russian Мстислав , Мстиславль , Polish Mścisław ) is a city in the eastern part of Belarus with about 11,700 inhabitants (2004) on the border with Russia . It is the capital of the Mzislau district and is located in Mahiljouskaja Woblasz .

coat of arms

Description: In silver, a red fox that runs and refuses to move beneath a hand swinging a silver sword , breaking out of a blue cloud on the left edge of the shield .

history

Mszislau was originally part of the Slavic principality of Smolensk and then developed into the capital of a principality of the same name. In 1377 the Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas captured Mszislau. The city remained with Poland-Lithuania until the First Partition of Poland in 1772 .

At the beginning of the 20th century there were about 5000 Jews in Mszislau, that is about 60 percent of the population. There was a Yiddish school in the Soviet Union. Due to migration in 1941 there were only 2000 Jews. From July 1941 to September 28, 1943, the city was occupied by German troops. In September 1941, a forced ghetto was ordered. On October 15, 1941, the Germans carried out mass killings of 800 (or more than 1,300) Jews near the Kagalny Graben, in which Belarusian police were also involved. A memorial has been erected at the site of the violence.

Attractions

Carmelite Church from 1637, renovated: 1746–1750
Jesuit church from 1640, renovated: 1730–1738, Orthodox cathedral since 1842

Sons of the city

Simon Dubnow (1860–1941), historian and theoretician of Judaism
Yevgeny Remes (1896–1975), Soviet mathematician
Robert Saitschick (1868–1965), Russian-Swiss literary historian and philosopher

literature

Mstislavl , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 502

Web links

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