Prushany
Prushany | Prushany | ||
Пружаны | Пружаны | ||
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State : | Belarus | |
Woblasz : | Brest | |
Coordinates : | 52 ° 33 ' N , 24 ° 28' E | |
Residents : | 19,300 (2007) | |
Time zone : | Moscow time ( UTC + 3 ) | |
Telephone code : | (+375) 1632 | |
Postal code : | BY - 225133 | |
License plate : | 1 | |
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Pruschany ( Belarusian Пружаны , Polish Prużana ) is a town with about 19,300 inhabitants (as of 2007) in the Breszkaja Woblasz in Belarus , 89 km northeast of Brest . Prushany is the administrative center of Prushany Raion . The city is located at the confluence of the Mucha River and the Wez Canal .
history
Settlement in the area began around 8,000–9,000 years ago. The first written mention of Pruschany goes back to 1433 . In the 16th century, one of the oldest Belorussian chronicles was found near the village of Mahyljowtsy - "Bychow Chronicle". The city was first mentioned under the name Dobuchyn in 1473 . In 1532 the city came under the rule of the Polish Queen Bona Sforza , who gave the city its coat of arms. In 1589 Pruschany received Magdeburg law and city status.
coat of arms
Description: In silver, a blue, gold-crowned snake spitting a child .
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town:
- Semjon Aronowitsch Gerschgorin (1901–1933), Belarusian-Soviet mathematician
- Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (1903–1993), Orthodox rabbi, Talmud scholar and modern Jewish philosopher
- Sergei Nailjewitsch Gimajew (1955–2017), ice hockey player and coach, and commentator
literature
- Prużana , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 615f.