Tschawussy

Chavussy | Tschaussy

Чавусы | Чаусы

( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )

coat of arms

flag

State :

Belarus

Woblasz :

Mahiljou

Founded :

1604

Coordinates :

53 ° 45 ′ N , 30 ° 58 ′ E Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ N , 30 ° 58 ′ E

Residents :

10,525 (2016)

Time zone :

Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )

Telephone code :

(+375) +2242

Postal code :

213206

License plate :

6th

Tschawussy

Railway Station (2016)

Chavusy ( Belarusian Чавусы ) is a city in eastern Belarus and administrative center of the administrative unit Rajon Chavusy . It is located on Mahiljouskaja Woblasz .

geography

The city lies on the Bassja river, which drains via Pronja and Sosch to the Dnieper , the distance to Mahiljou is 41 km. The train station on the Mahiljou- Krytschau railway line is approx. 5 km outside the village.

history

The place was probably founded around the middle of the 16th century, the first mention under the name Tschawussavichy falls in the year 1581. Already in 1604 the city charter was granted. Until the first partition of Poland in 1772, the area around Chawussy belonged to Poland-Lithuania , then to the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union and, since its disintegration, to Belarus.

Since 1770 there has been a regionally important annual fair in the city, and two from 1840. In 1789, when Catherine the Great visited the place, it had 1,057 inhabitants, including 355 Jews , and that year the existence of a school is mentioned for the first time. In 1897 there were around 6,000 people living in the city, around 45% of whom were Jews, making it a typical shtetl in the Pale of Settlement . Before the October Revolution , Chavussy was the center of the district of the same name ( Russian уезд - ujesd), since 1924 it has been the center of the Rajon . By the beginning of the Second World War , the Jewish population in the city and its surroundings had reduced to about 2,000 people, the total number of inhabitants was 7,200 in 1939. Part of the Jewish population managed to take over the area before the Wehrmacht invaded in July 1941 The survivors were registered in August 1941 and used for forced labor , before around 675 people were shot in Tschawussy and the neighboring village of Dranucha in several actions by Einsatzgruppe B in August and September 1941.