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Rahachow

Gomel Region, Belarus
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About Rahachow

Rahachow is a metropolis within the Gomel Region of Belarus. It is center of Rahachow District. Among the Drut and Dnieper rivers. The population is 34,727. The city is first referred to in 1142 in Russian chronicles. From the late thirteenth century it become a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after which the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1772 the Rahachow district was annexed by way of the Russian Empire. On sixteen July 1863 the local landowner Tomasz Hryniewicz changed into completed right here via a Russian firing squad for leading the Rahachow detachment of Polish insurgents.

During World War II, Rahachow turned into occupied with the aid of the German Army from July 2, 1941 to July thirteen, 1941, and once more from August 14, 1941 to February 24, 1944. The notable Rabbi, Yosef Rosen, known as the Rogatchover Gaon, become born and raised right here. The artist Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan turned into born and taken up right here, as was former NHL hockey participant Sergei Bautin. Rahachow additionally has a popular dairy product manufacturing facility in it, whose merchandise are furnished throughout Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

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