Talachyn

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Talachyn
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Talachyn
Location in Belarus
Coordinates: 54°25′N29°42′E / 54.417°N 29.700°E / 54.417; 29.700
Country Belarus
Region Vitebsk Region
District Talachyn District
First mentioned1433
Elevation
199 m (653 ft)
Population
 (2025) [1]
 • Total
9,542
Time zone UTC+3 (MSK)
Postal code
211070
Area code +375 2136
License plate2

Talachyn or Tolochin [a] is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Talachyn District. [1] As of 2025, it has a population of 9,542. [1]

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History

The town was first mentioned in 1433. Talachyn was a private town of the Sapieha, Szemiot and Sanguszko families, [2] administratively located in the Vitebsk Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1604 Lew Sapieha founded a Basilian monastery, church, hospital, and schools. [2] It was repeatedly seized by Russians during the Polish–Russian War of 1654–1667. [2] It was a shtetl . [3]

In 1939, 1,292 Jews lived there, making up 21.2 percent of the total population of the town. [4]

World War II

Talachyn in 1941 Talacyn, Arsanski. Talachyn, Arshanski (1941).jpg
Talachyn in 1941

The town was under German military occupation from 6–7 July 1941 until 1944. [4]

The Germans established a ghetto in September or October 1941, which consisted of 15 houses and had 2,000 inmates. [4] The ghetto was liquidated on 12 or 13 March 1942 and its inmates were killed. [4] The Germans killed more than 2,000 Jews, according to estimates made by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission. [5] However, this figure is disputed, due to the pre-war Jewish population being significantly lower, and some Jews having been drafted or able to flee. [4] The Einsatzkommando reported that it had killed 1,551 Jews in March, presumably in the entire district. [4]

A memorial has been erected to remember the fate of the victims.

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Notable people

Notes

  1. ↑ Belarusian: Талачын, romanized: Talačyn, IPA: [taɫaˈtʂɨn] ; Russian: Толочин; Polish: Tołoczyn; Yiddish: טאָלאָטשין; Lithuanian: Talačynas.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Численность населения на 1 января 2025 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2024 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 29 March 2025. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich (in Polish). Vol. XII. Warszawa. 1892. p. 367.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ "My shtetl\Tolochin". Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Megargee & Dean 2012, p. 1738.
  5. ↑ "- Online Guide of Murder Sites of Jews in the Former USSR - Yad Vashem".

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