Slauharad

Slauharad | Slavgorod
Слаўгарад | Славгород
( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )
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State :	Belarus
Woblasz :	Mahiljou
Coordinates :	53 ° 27 '  N , 31 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '  N , 31 ° 0'  E
Height :	137  m
Residents :	8,300 (2009)
Time zone :	Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )
Telephone code :	(+375) [phone]
Postal code :	213245, 213240
License plate :	6th
Slauharad

Slauharad ( Belarusian Слаўгарад ; Russian Славгород / Slawgorod ) is a city in Belarus and the administrative center of the administrative unit Slauharad Rajon .

geography

It is located in Mahiljouskaja Woblasz and lies on the Sosh River . A little further to the southeast lies Krasnapolle .

history

The city was called Propoisk until 1945. In 1986 the area around Slauharad was radioactively contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster .

Cesium-137 contamination in 1996 in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine in kilobecquerels per square meter

Sons of the place

• Arthur Lourié (1891–1966), Russian composer
• Sachari Tschernjakow (1900–1997), Soviet Finnougrist, ethnologist and linguist

literature

• Propoysk , 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. 613

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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