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Lyubavichi (; , Lyubavitsh) is a village in Rudnyansky District of Smolensk Oblast
Smolensk Oblast

Smolensk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its area is 49,786 square kilometers, population?1,019,000 ; 1,049,574 ; 1,158,299 ....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. In the days of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
, it was a shtetl
Shtetl

A shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-The Holocaust Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Shtetls were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Poland, Galicia , and Romania....
 in Orshansky Uyezd
Uyezd

Uyezd or uezd was an admistrative subdivision of Rus' , Muscovy, and Russian Empire used from the 13th century, originally describing groups of several volosts formed around the most important cities....
, in Mogilev Governorate
Mogilev Governorate

The Mogilev Governorate or Government of Mogilev was a governorate of the Russian Empire in the territory of the present day Belarus. Its capital was in Mogilev....
. It is known to have existed since least 1654. For two weeks in 1812, was occupied by Napoleonic troops. Had 2500 inhabitants in 1857. In the late 19th- early 20th centuries in the village there was the largest market in the Mogilyov province with a turn-over of over 1.5 million roubles.






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Lyubavichi (; , Lyubavitsh) is a village in Rudnyansky District of Smolensk Oblast
Smolensk Oblast

Smolensk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its area is 49,786 square kilometers, population?1,019,000 ; 1,049,574 ; 1,158,299 ....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. In the days of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
, it was a shtetl
Shtetl

A shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-The Holocaust Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Shtetls were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Poland, Galicia , and Romania....
 in Orshansky Uyezd
Uyezd

Uyezd or uezd was an admistrative subdivision of Rus' , Muscovy, and Russian Empire used from the 13th century, originally describing groups of several volosts formed around the most important cities....
, in Mogilev Governorate
Mogilev Governorate

The Mogilev Governorate or Government of Mogilev was a governorate of the Russian Empire in the territory of the present day Belarus. Its capital was in Mogilev....
. It is known to have existed since least 1654. For two weeks in 1812, was occupied by Napoleonic troops. Had 2500 inhabitants in 1857. In the late 19th- early 20th centuries in the village there was the largest market in the Mogilyov province with a turn-over of over 1.5 million roubles. With the introduction of communism, its well-known hasidic leadership left Lyubavichy, and its Jewish population gradually declined and secularized. On November 4 1941 , 483 local Jews were massacred by the Nazis and their collaborators, ending the village's historic Jewish presence.

The place is primarily known worldwide as the namesake and former headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch
Chabad-Lubavitch

Chabad-Lubavitch is one of the largest Hasidic Judaism movements in Orthodox Judaism, and is based in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn....
 branch of Hasidic Judaism
Hasidic Judaism

Hasidic Judaism is a type of Orthodox Judaism or Haredi Judaism Orthodox Judaism religious movement. Some refer to Hasidic Judaism as Hasidism, and the adjective chasidic / hasidic applies....
.

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