Smarhon’

Smarhon or Smorgon (White Russian Смаргонь / Smarhon; Russian Сморгонь / Smorgon; Yiddish סמאָרגאָן; . Poln Smorgonie ) is a city in Belarus in the Hrodsenskaja Woblasz with around 37,000 inhabitants. The place was from the 17th century to the Holocaust an important Jewish center and the property of the Polish Prince Radziwill.

Coat of arms

Description: In Silver schrägrot a gridded sign foot rotbewehrter a black bear is holding a golden collar, a blue breastplate with black-gold - red trefoil.

Geography

The city is located in the northwest of the country between the cities of Grodno, Minsk and Vilnius by the river Viliya. About 60 km north-west runs the EU's external border with Lithuania. About 60 km north-east lies the nature reserve around the Naratsch Lake.

Traffic

Smarhon located on a main railway line from Minsk to Vilnius on Maladsetschna and several roads of local importance, among others, according to Maladsetschna.

Famous people

• Peter Blume, American painter
• Alexander Deruga Belarusian musicians, founded the orchestra of cymbals Smarhon
• Ida Mett or Ida Lasarewitch Gilman, Russian anarchist
• Rabbi Rabbi Menashe Ben Porath of Ilya, Belarusian- Lithuanian Jewish scholar
• Avraham Aharon Kabak, Hebrew writer, moved to Palestine
• Moysche Kulbak, Belarusian- Lithuanian Yiddish poet
• Dawid Kussevitzki, American Chasan Polish origin
• Moshe Kussewitzki, American Chasan Polish origin
• Count Karol Dominik Przedziecki, Polish freedom fighter
• David Raziel, commander of the Zionist underground organization Irgun in Palestine
• Esther Raziel - Naor, Israeli politician, campaigner in the Irgun
• William Schwartz, American painter
• Nachum Sluschtsch, Israeli historian, archaeologist and Hebrew writer
• Abraham Sutzkever, Israeli Yiddish poet

Aschmjany | Berastawiza | Dsjatlawa | Grodno | Lida | Masty | Nawahradak | Schtschutschyn | Skidel | Slonim | Smarhon | Waukawysk

• Place in the Hrodsenskaja Woblasz