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Mogilev

Mahilyow (also transliterated Mahilou, Mogilyov, Mogilev; , , ) is a city in eastern Belarus

Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
, about 76 km from the border with Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
's 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 ....
and 105 km from the border with Russia's Bryansk Oblast

Bryansk Oblast

Bryansk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Bryansk....
. It has more than 367,788 inhabitants (2007 estimate). It is the centre of Mahilyow voblast

Mahilyow Voblast

Mahilyow Voblasts or Mogilyov Oblast is a province of Belarus with its Capital city being Mogilyov .Mogilev and Homyel Voblasts suffered severely after the Chernobyl accident in 1986....
and the third largest city in Belarus.

city was founded in 1267.

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Mahilyow (also transliterated Mahilou, Mogilyov, Mogilev; , , ) is a city in eastern Belarus

Belarus

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
's Smolensk Oblast

Smolensk Oblast

Bryansk Oblast

Mahilyow Voblast

History

The city was founded in 1267. Since 14th century a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was an Eastern and Central European state from the 12th /13th century until the 18th century. It was founded by Lithuanians, at the time one of the Lithuanian mythology Baltic tribes, whose initial lands covered Auk?taitija, the eastern part of present day Lithuania....
, after the Union of Lublin

Union of Lublin

The Union of Lublin replaced the personal union of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with a real union and an elective monarchy, since Sigismund II Augustus, the last of the Jagiellons, remained childless after three marriages....
and creation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries in 16th and 17th-century Europe, formed by a Union of Lublin of Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569....
, it was transferred to The Crown

Crown of the Polish Kingdom

The Crown of the Polish Kingdom , or simply the Crown , is the name for the territory under direct Poland administration in the times of the Poland until the end of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ....
as Mohylew or Mogilew. The city flourished as one of the main nodes of the east-west and north-south trading routes. In 1577 king Stefan Batory

Stefan Batory

Stephen B?thory was a Hungarian noble Prince of Transylvania , then King consort and Grand Duke consort of Lithuania to Anna Jagiellon. He was a member of the Somlyo branch of the noble Hungary B?thory....
granted it with city rights. After the First Partition of Poland

Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth....
it came into the hands of Imperial Russia and was the centre of the Mogilev guberniya. In years 1915-1917, during World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, the headquarters of the Russian army functioned in the city and the Tsar, Nicholas II, spent long periods here as Commander-in-Chief. In 1918 occupied by Germany

Germany

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and transferred to the short-lived Belarusian People's Republic. In 1919 captured by the forces of Bolshevist Russia

Bolshevist Russia

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and incorporated into Byelorussian SSR

Byelorussian SSR

The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of Republics of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union. It was one of the four original founding members of the Soviet Union in 1922, together with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic....
. Between 1941 and 1944 under German occupation. Since Belarus

Belarus

Economy

Mahilyow is one of the main economical and industrial centres of Belarus. After World War II a huge metallurgy centre with several major steel mills was built. Also, there were several major factories of crane

Crane (machine)

A crane is a lifting machine equipped with a winder , wire ropes or chains and Sheave that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally....
s, cars, tractor

Tractor

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s and a chemical plant. The city is home to a major inland port at the Dnieper river and a domestic airport.

Sites of interest

The most striking building of Mahilyow is the six-pillared St. Stanislaw's Cathedral (), built in the Baroque

Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
style in 1738-52 and distinguished by its energetic murals. The convent of St. Nicholas () preserves its magnificent cathedral from 1668, as well as original iconostasis, belltower, walls, and gates. Minor landmarks include the archiepiscopal palace and memorial arch, both dating from the 1780s, and the enormous theatre in the blend of the Neo-Renaissance

Neo-Renaissance

"Neo-Renaissance" is an all-encompassing style designation that covers many aspects of 19th century Revivalism which were neither Grecian nor Gothic but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes....
and Russian Revival

Russian Revival

The Russian Revival style is the generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture, that arose in second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of Peter I of Russia Russian architecture and elements of Byzantine architecture....
styles.

At Polykovichi, an urban part of Mahilyow, there is a 350 metre tall guyed TV mast, one of the tallest structures in Belarus.

Notable natives of Mahilyow

Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, physicist
Issai Schur
Issai Schur

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, mathematician
Modest Altschuler
Modest Altschuler

Modest Altschuler was a cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer. He was born in Mogilev, Belarus, on February 15, 1873. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory and emigrated to the United States in the late 1890s....
, orchestra conductor
Grandparents of former Canadian
Canada

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professional ice hockey
Ice hockey

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player Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky

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Otto Schmidt
Otto Schmidt

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, scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician
Matest M. Agrest
Matest M. Agrest

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, ethnologist and mathematician
Mikalaj Sudzilouski
Mikalaj Sudzilouski

Nikolai Sudzilovsky was a revolutionary and scientist.Sudzilovsky was born in Mogilev to a szlachta family. He entered the St. Petersburg University law department but dropped out on the next year and entered medical department of the Kiev University where he did not finish his studies....
, revolutionary and scientist
Lev Polugaevsky
Lev Polugaevsky

Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the World Chess Championship, although he never achieved that title....
, International Grandmaster of chess
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin

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, American composer
David Pinski
David Pinski

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, Yiddish playwright
Charles Jaffe
Charles Jaffe

Charles Jaff? was a Belarusian-United States chess master, of virtually Grandmaster strength at his peak in the 1910s, when he was one of the world's top players....
, emigre American chess Master and writer

Twin towns - Sister cities

Mahilyow is twinned

Town twinning

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with:

Kragujevac
Kragujevac

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, Serbia
Serbia

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Gabrovo
Gabrovo

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, Bulgaria
Bulgaria

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Villeurbanne
Villeurbanne

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, France
France

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Bardejov
Bardejov

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, Slovakia
Slovakia

Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
Eisenach
Eisenach

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, Germany
Germany

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Kerch
Kerch

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, Ukraine
Ukraine

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Tula
Tula, Russia

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, Russia
Russia

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Klaipeda
Klaipeda

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, Lithuania
Lithuania

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Wloclawek
Wloclawek

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, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....

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City and regional maps of Mogilev