Mikashevichy (Belarusian: Мікашэвічы, romanized: Mikaševičy, IPA: [mʲikaˈʂɛvʲitʂɨ]; Russian: Микашевичи, romanized: Mikashevichi; Polish: Mikaszewicze) is a town in Brest Region, in southern Belarus.[1] It is located halfway between the cities of Brest and Gomel. As of 2023, it has a population of 12,395.[1]

History

Railway station in the interwar period

At the conclusion of World War I, Mikaszewicze held a special place in the political dialogue accompanying the Polish–Soviet War. The talks started in October 1919 at the small Mikaszewicze railway station and continued until December 1919. During the talks, Marshal Józef Piłsudski informed the Bolshevik delegation that Poland was not supporting the White movement of Anton Denikin in the Russian Civil War. The exchange of prisoners was decided there. However, the talks soon broke down. Already informed about Poland's intentions regarding the Lithuanian–Belorussian front, Bolshevik leaders began a progressive concentration of the forces on the interim border with Poland.[2][3]

In the interwar period, it was located in the Polesie Voivodeship of Poland.

The town had a Jewish population of about 400 before the war, a quarter of its residents. They were murdered outside the town on August 6, 1942.[4]

Memorial to Holocaust victims

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, it was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and then re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which eventually annexed it from Poland in 1945.

Sports

The town is home to FC Granit Mikashevichi.

Notable people

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  2. ^ Janusz Cisek (2002). Kosciuszko, We Are Here!: American Pilots of the Kosciuszko Squadron in Defense of Poland, 1919-1921. McFarland. p. 91. ISBN 0-7864-1240-2.
  3. ^ Adam Daniel Rotfeld; Anatoly V. Torkunov (2015). White Spots—Black Spots: Difficult Matters in Polish-Russian Relations, 1918–2008. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-8229-8095-7.
  4. ^ "האנציקלופדיה של הגטאות: מיקשבץי" [The Encyclopedia of the Ghettos: Mikaszewicze]. International Institute for Holocaust Research.
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