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    Pruzhany (Belarusian: Пружаны, romanized: Pružany, IPA: [pruˈʐanɨ]; Russian: Пружаны; Polish: Prużana; Yiddish: פּרוזשענע, romanized: Pruzhene) is a town...
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    Pruzhany Palace (Belarusian: Пружанскі палацык) is a museum in the town of Pruzhany in Brest Voblast, western Belarus. It is a nineteenth century mansion...
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    Adam Mickiewicz Gymnasium in Pruzhany was a gymnasium in Pruzhany, Belarus operating during the times of the Second Polish Republic, providing education...
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    western Belarus. A tributary of the Bug River, the Mukhavets rises in Pruzhany, Belarus, where the Mukha river and the Vyets [be] canal converge, flows...
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  • Pruzhany is a former airbase of the Belarusian Air Force located near Pruzhany, Brest Region, Belarus. The base was home to the: 206th Independent Assault...
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    as a Roman Catholic priest in 1939, and then was sent to the parish of Pruzhany. The Soviet Union occupied Pinsk after the Nazi-Soviet Pact divided Poland...
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    Віскулі, Polish: Wiskule) is a hunting estate in Białowieża Forest, in Pruzhany District, Brest Region, Belarus, named after the former khutor Viskuli...
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    Pruzhany District or Pružany District (Belarusian: Пружанскі раён, romanized: Pružanski rajon; Russian: Пружанский район, romanized: Pruzhansky rayon)...
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  • romanized: Haradziečna; Russian: Городечно, romanized: Gorodechno) is a village in Pruzhany District, Brest Region, Belarus. It is part of Shani selsoviet. During...
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    Кобринского) Lida (Russian: Ли́да) Novogrudok (Russian: Новогрудского) Pruzhany (Russian: Пружанского) Slonimsky (Russian: Слонимского) Just a year later...
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    Kajetan Kraszewski (category People from Pruzhany District)
    Kajetan Kraszewski (Pruzhany district, 11 March 1827 - 1 July 1896, Pruzhany district) was a younger brother of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Lucjan Kraszewski...
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    Tormasov at Gorodechno, a town in Kobrinsky Uyezd, Grodno Governorate (now Pruzhany District, Brest Region in Belarus). The battle was ultimately won by France's...
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    Vasilyevichy Turov Baranavichy Pinsk Kobryn Byaroza Luninyets Ivatsevichy Pruzhany Ivanava Drahichyn Hantsavichy Zhabinka Mikashevichy Byelaazyorsk Stolin...
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    group is separated from the rest of the country by the conventional line Pruzhany–Ivatsevichy–Tsyelyakhany–Luninyets–Stolin. There is a high degree of mutual...
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    Elements of the German 3rd Panzer Army on the road near Pruzhany, June 1941...
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    Feinstein, also known as Reb Elye Pruzhaner, (b. Slutsk, Russia 1843 - d. Pruzhany, 1929), was a leading Litvak rabbinic authority of his time. Feinstein...
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    arcade and now a monument to civic architecture of the 19th century in Pruzhany town, Brest Voblast (province), Western Belarus. It was constructed in...
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    orb, rather than a human. The arms of the towns of Sanok in Poland and Pruzhany in Belarus also feature the symbol, honoring the marriage of Bona Sforza...
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    Ruzhany (category Pruzhany District)
    romanized: Rozhinoy; also spelled Rozana or Ruzhana) is an urban-type settlement in Pruzhany District, Brest Region, Belarus. As of 2024, it has a population of 2,777...
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    Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park (category Pruzhany District)
    national park within parts of the Brest Region (Kamyanyets District and Pruzhany District) and Grodno Region (Svislach District) in Belarus adjacent to...
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    Luninyets District Lyakhavichy District Malaryta District Pinsk District Pruzhany District Stolin District Zhabinka District There are about 70 travel agencies...
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    flying Su-25 206th Separate Ground Attack Air Regiment (206-й ошап) at Pruzhany-West AB, flying Su-25 and L-39 50th Separate Mixed Air Regiment (50-й осап)...
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    P78: Olekshitsy – Volkovysk – Porazava – Pruzhany P79: Klichaw - Chechevichi P80: Slabada – Papiernya P81: Pruzhany to the border with Poland; entrance to...
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  • Pyerarova (category Pruzhany District)
    Russian: Перерово, romanized: Pererovo) is a rural locality (a khutor) in Pruzhany District, Brest Region, Belarus. It is part of Sharashova selsoviet. During...
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  • Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin (category People from Pruzhany)
    Aronovich Gershgorin (August 24, 1901 – May 30, 1933) was a Soviet (born in Pruzhany, Belarus, Russian Empire) mathematician. He began as a student at the Petrograd...
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    Archdiocese of Minsk–Mohilev. Vialikaselets was born in the village Staravolia, Pruzhany District. In 1981, he was admitted to the seminary in Riga. While studying...
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    "Lepke". His father, Barnett (Berl) Buchalter, had been a widower from Pruzhany (now Belarus) who immigrated to the United States in 1890 with three daughters...
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    Yitzhak Shamir (category People from Pruzhany District)
    Yitzhak Shamir (Hebrew: יצחק שמיר, listen; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; October 22, 1915 – June 30, 2012) was an Israeli politician and the seventh prime...
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    Panzer units move through Pruzhany in western Belarus in June 1941....
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    Sharashova (category Pruzhany District)
    romanized: Shereshevo, Polish: Szereszów) is an urban-type settlement in Pruzhany District, Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center...
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