Polotsk

Polotsk is a ancient town in Belarus, located on the Dvina River. It is the middle of the Polotsk District in Vitsebsk Voblast. Its population is more than 80,000 human beings. It is served by using Polotsk Airport and in the course of the Cold War changed into home to Borovitsy air base. The Old East Slavic call, Polotesk, derives from the Polota River, which flows into the Western Dvina nearby. The Vikings rendered that name as Palteskja. Polotsk is one of the maximum historical towns of the Eastern Slavs. The Primary Chronicle indexed Polotsk in 862, collectively with Murom and Beloozero.

However, an archaeological expedition from the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus shows that Polotsk existed within the first half of of the 9th century. The first recognised prince of Polotsk become Rogvolod. He had sons and a daughter named Rogneda. Rogvolod promised Rogneda to the prince of Kiev, Yaropolk, as a wife. But Yaropolk's brother, Vladimir, had attacked Polotsk before Yaropolk got here. He killed Rogvolod, his wife and sons, and married Rogneda.