Pinsk, the Glossary
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119 relations: Aaron of Pinsk, Abbotsford Canucks, Adam Naruszewicz, Alexander Jagiellon, American Hockey League, Andrew Bobola, Andrzej Kondratiuk, Association football, Baruch Epstein, Belarus, Belarusian Auxiliary Police, Belarusian Democratic Republic, Belarusian language, Bolsheviks, Bona Sforza, Brest Region, Brest, Belarus, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Candle, Carmelites, Catholic Church, Chaim Kanievsky, Chaim Weizmann, Charles XII of Sweden, Cistercian nuns, Cossacks, Danila Klimovich, Dominican Order, Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Orthodox Church, Evangelism, Factory, FC Volna Pinsk, Franciscans, French invasion of Russia, German Empire, Golda Meir, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Haaretz, Helena Skirmunt, History of the Jews in Poland, Igor Kolb, Isaac Shoenberg, Ivan Zholtovsky, Izya Shlosberg, Janusz Radziwiłł (1612–1655), Jesuits, Jonah Gogol, Joshua D. Zimmerman, Kazimierz Świątek, ... Expand index (69 more) »
- Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
- Cities in Belarus
- Historic Jewish communities in Belarus
- Pinsky Uyezd
Aaron of Pinsk
Aaron of Pinsk, also Aharon Kretinger, was a rabbi in Kretinga, in the Kovno Governorate, and afterward in Pinsk, where he died in 1841.
Abbotsford Canucks
The Abbotsford Canucks are a Canadian professional ice hockey team based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and members of the American Hockey League (AHL).
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Adam Naruszewicz
Adam Stanisław Naruszewicz (Adomas Naruševičius; 20 October 1733 – 8 July 1796) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, poet, historian, dramatist, translator, publicist, Jesuit and Roman Catholic bishop.
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Alexander Jagiellon
Alexander Jagiellon (Aleksander Jagiellończyk; Aleksandras Jogailaitis; 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506) of the House of Jagiellon was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501 until his death in 1506.
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American Hockey League
The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Andrew Bobola
Andrew Bobola, SJ (Andrzej Bobola; 1591 – 16 May 1657) was a Polish missionary and martyr of the Society of Jesus, known as the Apostle of Lithuania and the "hunter of souls".
Andrzej Kondratiuk
Andrzej Lech Kondratiuk (20 July 1936 – 22 June 2016) was a Polish film director, screenwriter, actor, and cinematographer.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Baruch Epstein
Baruch Epstein or Baruch ha-Levi Epstein (1860–1941) (ברוך הלוי אפשטיין) was a Ashkenazi Jewish rabbi, best known for his Torah Temimah commentary on the Torah.
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.
Belarusian Auxiliary Police
The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Biełaruskaja dapamožnaja palicyja) was a German force established in July 1941 in occupied Belarus, staffed by local inhabitants, and considered collaborationist.
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Belarusian Democratic Republic
The Belarusian People's Republic (BNR; Biełaruskaja Narodnaja Respublika, БНР), also known as the Belarusian Democratic Republic, was a state proclaimed by the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in its Second Constituent Charter on 9 March 1918 during World War I. The Council proclaimed the Belarusian Democratic Republic independent in its Third Constituent Charter on 25 March 1918 during the occupation of contemporary Belarus by the Imperial German Army.
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Belarusian language
Belarusian (label) is an East Slavic language.
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Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
Bona Sforza
Bona Sforza (2 February 1494 – 19 November 1557) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund the Old, and Duchess of Bari and Rossano by her own right.
Brest Region
Brest Region, also known as Brest Oblast or Brest Voblasts (Bresckaja voblasć; Brestskaya oblast), is one of the six regions of Belarus.
Brest, Belarus
Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where the Bug and Mukhavets rivers meet, making it a border town. Pinsk and Brest, Belarus are Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, cities in Belarus, Holocaust locations in Belarus, Polesie Voivodeship, Populated places established in the 11th century and Populated places in Brest Region.
The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR or Byelorussian SSR; Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка; Белорусская Советская Социалистическая Республика), also known as Byelorussia, was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).
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Candle
A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance.
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Carmelites
The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo; abbreviated OCarm), known as the Carmelites or sometimes by synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a mendicant order in the Roman Catholic Church for both men and women.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Chaim Kanievsky
Shemaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky (שמריהו יוסף חיים קַניֶבסקִי; January 8, 1928 – March 18, 2022) was an Israeli Haredi rabbi and posek.
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Azriel Weizmann 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel in 1948.
Charles XII of Sweden
Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII (Karl XII) or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), was King of Sweden (including current Finland) from 1697 to 1718.
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Cistercian nuns
Cistercian nuns are female members of the Cistercian Order, a religious order of the Catholic Church.
Cossacks
The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia.
Danila Klimovich
Danila Vitalevich Klimovich (Данила Витальевич Климович; born 9 January 2003) is a Belarusian ice hockey centre assigned to the Abbotsford Canucks of the American Hockey League, while under contract to the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.
Eastern Catholic Churches
The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (sui iuris) particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Evangelism
In Christianity, evangelism or witnessing is the act of preaching the gospel with the intention of sharing the message and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Factory
A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another.
FC Volna Pinsk
FC Volna Pinsk is a Belarusian football club based in Pinsk, Brest Oblast.
Franciscans
The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.
French invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign (Campagne de Russie) and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom.
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German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
Golda Meir
Golda Meir (3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974.
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania.
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Haaretz
Haaretz (originally Ḥadshot Haaretz –) is an Israeli newspaper.
Helena Skirmunt
Helena Skirmunt (sometimes Skirmuntt or Skirmuntowa; Гелена Скірмунт; 5 November 1827 – 1 February 1874) was a Polish painter and sculptor.
History of the Jews in Poland
The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years.
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Igor Kolb
Igor Kolb (born June 6, 1977, in Pinsk, Belarus) is a principal dancer of Mariinsky Ballet.
Isaac Shoenberg
Sir Isaac Shoenberg (1 March 1880 – 25 January 1963) was a British electronic engineer born in Belarus who was best known for his role in the history of television.
Ivan Zholtovsky
Ivan Vladislavovich Zholtovsky (Иван Владиславович Жолтовский, Іван Уладзіслававіч Жалтоўскі; November 27, 1867 – July 16, 1959) was a Soviet and Russian architect and educator.
Izya Shlosberg
Izya Shlosberg (born November 4, 1950) is an American artist, writer and philosopher, well known for expressing his philosophical and scientific ideas through his paintings.
Janusz Radziwiłł (1612–1655)
Prince Janusz Radziwiłł, also known as Janusz the Second or Janusz the Younger (Jonušas Radvila, 2 December 1612 – 31 December 1655) was a noble and magnate in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
Jonah Gogol
Jonah Gogol (Polish: Jonasz Hohoł, Ukrainian: Iona Hohol, died in 1602) was an Orthodox and later an Uniate bishop of Pinsk-Turowski.
Joshua D. Zimmerman
Joshua D. Zimmerman (born 1966) holds the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History at Yeshiva University.
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Kazimierz Świątek
Kazimierz Cardinal Świątek (translit; 21 October 1914 – 21 July 2011) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was most known for his resistance to Cold War-era Soviet communism and for his service in Minsk, Belarus.
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Khmelnytsky Uprising
The Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack–Polish War, or the Khmelnytsky insurrection, was a Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which led to the creation of a Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine.
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Leo Zeitlin
Lev Mordukhovich Tseitlin (Лев Цейтлин, לייב צייטלין "Leyb Tseytlin", born 1884, in Pinsk – July 8, 1930, in New York City), known as Leo Zeitlin, was a Russian-Jewish composer.
List of cities and towns in Belarus
This is a list of cities and towns in Belarus. Pinsk and list of cities and towns in Belarus are cities in Belarus.
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Lutsk
Lutsk (Луцьк,; see below for other names) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine.
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Magdeburg rights
Magdeburg rights (Magdeburger Recht, Prawo magdeburskie, Magdeburgo teisė; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted by the local ruler.
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Match
A match is a tool for starting a fire.
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Matheus Butrymowicz
Matheus Butrymowicz (1745–1814) was a Polish-Lithuanian statesman and landlord from Pinsk and a liberal member of the Great Sejm or Diet assembled in Warsaw from 1788 to 1792.
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Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki
Prince Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki (Mykolas Servacijus Višnioveckis; 13 May 1680 – 18 September 1744) was a Lithuanian nobleman, magnate, politician, diplomat, general, a successful military commander and the last male representative of the Wiśniowiecki family.
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Minsk
Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. Pinsk and Minsk are cities in Belarus and Populated places established in the 11th century.
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Moscow Time
Moscow Time (MSK, moskovskoye vremya) is the time zone for the city of Moscow, Russia, and most of western Russia, including Saint Petersburg.
Napoleon Orda
Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda (Напалеон Орда; Napoleonas Orda; 11 February 1807 – 26 April 1883) was a Polish-Lithuanian musician, pianist, composer, and artist, best known for numerous sketches of historical sites of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Narimantas
Narimantas or Narymunt (baptized Gleb; 1277 or just before 1300 (according to Wasilewski 1992) – 2 February 1348) was the second eldest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Norman Davies
Ivor Norman Richard Davies (born 8 June 1939) is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom.
Olga Govortsova
Olga Alekseyevna Govortsova (Вольга Аляксееўна Гаварцова (Volha Alyakseyeuna Havartsova); Ольга Алексеевна Говорцова; born 23 August 1988) is a Belarusian professional tennis player.
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
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Order of Friars Minor Conventual
The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (O.F.M. Conv.) is a male religious fraternity in the Catholic Church and a branch of the Franciscan Order.
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Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)
The Paris Peace Conference was a set of formal and informal diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 after the end of World War I, in which the victorious Allies set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.
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Pińsk Ghetto
The Pińsk Ghetto (Getto w Pińsku; Пінскае гета) was a Nazi ghetto created by Nazi Germany for the confinement of Jews living in the city of Pińsk, Western Belarus. Pinsk and Pińsk Ghetto are Holocaust locations in Belarus.
Pina (river)
The Pina (Піна, Пи́на) is a river in Ivanava and Pinsk Raions in Belarus.
Pinsk District
Pinsk District (Pinski rajon; Pinsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Brest Region in Belarus.
Pinsk Marshes
The Pinsk Marshes (Pinskiya baloty), also known as the Pripet Marshes (Prypiackija baloty), the Polesie Marshes, and the Rokitno Marshes, are a vast natural region of wetlands in Polesia, along the forested basin of the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest to the west, Mogilev in the northeast, and Kyiv to the southeast.
Pinsk massacre
The Pinsk massacre was the mass execution of thirty-five Jewish residents of Pinsk on April 5, 1919, by the Polish Army.
Pinsk Region
Pinsk Region (Pinsk Voblasts, Пінская вобласць, Пинская Область) was a territorial unit in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic created after the Soviet annexation of Western Belorussia in November 1939.
Polesia
Polesia, Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the bigger East European Plain, including part of eastern Poland and the Belarus–Ukraine border region.
Polesie Voivodeship
Polesie Voivodeship (województwo poleskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939), named after the historical region of Polesia.
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Polish–Soviet War
The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before it became a union republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy following the Partitions of Poland.
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Powiat
A powiat is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (LAU-1) in other countries.
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Pripyat (river)
The Pripyat or Prypiat is a river in Eastern Europe.
Rail transport
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren (born October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, best known for founding the brand Ralph Lauren, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise.
Raman Skirmunt
Raman (Roman) Skirmunt (Раман Скірмунт; 7 May 1868 – 7 October 1939) was a Belarusian and Polesian statesman, aristocrat and landlord.
Regions of Belarus
At the top level of administration, Belarus is divided into six regions and one capital city.
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Reichskommissariat Ukraine
The Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU) was established by Nazi Germany in 1941 during World War II.
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Royal city in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
In the history of Poland, a royal city or royal town (miasto królewskie) was an urban settlement within the crown lands (królewszczyzna).
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
Russian Empire census
The Russian Empire census, formally the First general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897, was the first and only nation-wide census performed in the Russian Empire.
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Russians
Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.
Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński (4 March 1932 – 23 January 2007) was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author.
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Sławomir Rawicz
Sławomir Rawicz (1 September 1915 – 5 April 2004) was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland.
Second Partition of Poland
The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795.
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Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Semyon Furman
Semyon Abramovich Furman (December 1, 1920 – March 17, 1978) was a Soviet chess player and trainer of Belarusian Jewish origin.
Shabsay Moshkovsky
Shabsay Davidovich Moshkovsky (1895—1982; Шабсай Давидович Мошковский) was a Soviet physician, infectious disease scientist and epidemiologist with a particular interest in malaria.
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Shipyard
A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired.
Simon Kuznets
Simon Smith Kuznets (p; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development." Kuznets made a decisive contribution to the transformation of economics into an empirical science and to the formation of quantitative economic history.
Soap
Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications.
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Soviet invasion of Poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919
The Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 was part of the campaign by Soviet Russia into areas abandoned by the Ober Ost garrisons that were being withdrawn to Germany following that country's defeat in World War I. The initially successful offensive against the Republic of Estonia ignited the Estonian War of Independence which ended with the Soviet recognition of Estonia.
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Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.
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Stephen Báthory
Stephen Báthory (Báthory István; Stefan Batory;; 27 September 1533 – 12 December 1586) was Voivode of Transylvania (1571–1576), Prince of Transylvania (1576–1586), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1576–1586).
Tatiana Woollaston
Tatiana Woollaston (born Tatiana Torchilo, alternative spelling Tatiana Tarchyla, Tatstsiana Tarchyla, 8 November 1986 in Pinsk, Soviet Union) is a professional snooker referee.
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the history, culture, and state of Judaism up to the early 20th century.
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Theodore Odrach
Theodore Odrach (March 13, 1912 – October 7, 1964), born Theodore Sholomitsky, was a Ukrainian writer of novels, short stories and memoirs.
Torah
The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
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Treaty of Riga
The Treaty of Riga was signed in Riga, Latvia, on between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine on the other, ending the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921).
Turov, Belarus
Turov or Turaw (Туров; Turava; Турів; Turów; טוראָוו.) is a town in Zhytkavichy District, Gomel Region, Belarus. Pinsk and Turov, Belarus are Holocaust locations in Belarus.
Ukrainian People's Republic
The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) was a short-lived state in Eastern Europe.
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Vancouver Canucks
The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver.
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Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich
Vintsent Dunin-Marcinkievič (Вінцэнт (Вінцук) Дунін-Марцінкевіч; Wincenty Dunin-Marcinkiewicz; February 8, 1808 – December 21, 1884) was a Polish-Belarusian writer, poet, dramatist and social activist and is considered one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literary tradition and national school theatre.
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Vladimir Chub
Vladimir Fyodorovich Chub (Владимир Фёдорович Чуб; born 24 July 1948) is a Russian politician who served as Governor of Rostov Oblast from 1991 until 2010.
Vysheysha shkola
Vysheysha shkola (Вышэйшая школа) is a state-owned publishing house in Minsk, Belarus, specialized in publishing academic books.
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William Moses Feldman
Dr William Moses Feldman FRSE FRCP (1880–1939) was a Russian-born expert on child health in Britain.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yauhen Shatokhin
Yauhen Shatokhin (Яўген Шатохін, French transliteration: Iaouguene Chatokhine; February 25, 1947 in Pinsk – January 22, 2012 in Pinsk) was a Belarusian painter and political activist.
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Zhabinka
Zhabinka (Žabinka,; Жабинка; Zhabinke; Żabinka) is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. Pinsk and Zhabinka are Brest Litovsk Voivodeship, Polesie Voivodeship and Populated places in Brest Region.
See also
Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
- Antopal
- Biała Podlaska
- Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
- Brest, Belarus
- Damachava
- Davyd-Haradok
- Drahichyn
- Dzivin
- Hantsavichy
- Ivanava
- Kamyanyuki
- Kamyenyets
- Kobryn
- Kodeń
- Lyeninski, Brest Region
- Malaryta
- Milejczyce
- Moladava
- Motal
- Pinsk
- Piszczac
- Pratulin
- Pruzhany
- Pyaschatka
- Rasna, Brest Region
- Rossosz, Biała County
- Stolin
- Syalyets, Byaroza District
- Sławatycze
- Terespol
- Tsyelyakhany
- Vowchyn
- Vysokaye
- Wohyń
- Zhabinka
- Łomazy
Cities in Belarus
- Babruysk
- Baranavichy
- Barysaw
- Brest, Belarus
- Gomel
- Grodno
- Lida
- List of cities and towns in Belarus
- List of twin towns and sister cities in Belarus
- Mazyr
- Minsk
- Minsk metropolitan area
- Mogilev
- Novopolotsk
- Orsha
- Pinsk
- Salihorsk
- Vitebsk
Historic Jewish communities in Belarus
- Adelsk
- Antopal
- Ashmyany
- Babinavichy
- Babruysk
- Beshankovichy
- Chashniki
- Chavusy
- Damachava
- Davyd-Haradok
- Druya
- Dzyatlava
- Ilya, Belarus
- Ivanava
- Iwye
- Kalyshki
- Karelichy
- Karlin (Pinsk)
- Kobryn
- Kolonja Izaaka
- Lakhva
- Lyady, Vitebsk Region
- Malyatsichy
- Mir, Belarus
- Mogilev
- Motal
- Myalyeshkavichy
- Novogrudok
- Orsha
- Pinsk
- Sapotskin
- Shchadryn
- Shklow
- Smarhon
- Svislach, Mogilev Region
- Syaliba
- Talachyn
- Tsyelyakhany
- Valozhyn
- Vawkavysk
- Vitebsk
- Vyzhnytsia
Pinsky Uyezd
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsk
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