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Encyclopedia > Stolin

Stolin (Belarusian: Сто́лін; Russian: Сто́лин) is an old city, that grew up at the heart of Palesse on the river Horyn (Goryn), at the intersection of three roads, one leading northwards to Pinsk, two others eastwards to Davyd-Gorodok and Turaw, that are now in Belarus, southwards to Sarny and Kyiv, that are now in Ukraine. Polesie (Polish spelling; Polissya, Полісся in Ukrainian, Polesye, Полесье in Russian, Palyessye or Palesse, Пале́сьсе in Belarusian) is one of the largest European swampy areas, located in the South-Western part of the Eastern-European Lowland, within the territories of Belarus, Ukraine and Poland. ... Pinsk (Belarusian: Пінск), a town in Belarus, in the province of Palesse, travesed by the river Pripet, at the confluence of the Strumen and Pina rivers. ... Turaw (Belarusian Ту́раў, Russian Ту́ров, Polish Turów, also transliterated as Turov) is a town in Zhytkavichy district of Homel voblast of Belarus. ... Kiev (Київ, Kyiv, in Ukrainian; Киев, Kiev, in Russian) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river. ...


Nowadays Stolin is the capital of the largest district in Brest voblast. Population of Stolin is 12.5 thousand people (2002). The Belarusian-Ukrainian border is about 15 km away, actually Stolin is now a border city that hosts a lot of Ukrainians on the market days. Russian speech is common here, but villagers prefer their dialects that are numerous and akin partly to the Belarusian language, partly the Ukrainian language. Brest voblast is one of the administrative regions in the Republic of Belarus located in the south-west of Poland and Ukraine. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Belarusian is the language of the Belarusian nation. ... Ukrainian (украї́нська мо́ва) is an East Slavic language, one of three members of this language group, the other two being Russian and Belarusian. ...


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  • More info and pictures of Stolin (http://www12.virtualtourist.com/m/5a6b1/523c7/)
  • Photos on Radzima.org (http://radzima.org/pub/miesta.php?miesta_id1=brststol)

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Stolin - definition of Stolin in Encyclopedia (152 words)
Stolin (Belarusian: Сто́лін; Russian: Сто́лин) is an old city, that grew up at the heart of Palesse on the river Horyn (Goryn), at the intersection of three roads, one leading northwards to Pinsk, two others eastwards to Davyd-Gorodok and Turaw, that are now in Belarus, southwards to Sarny and Kyiv, that are now in Ukraine.
Nowadays Stolin is the capital of the largest district in Brest voblast.
Russian speech is common here, but villagers prefer their dialects that are numerous and akin partly to the Belarusian language, partly the Ukrainian language.
Stolin - the history of the people who made up a shtetl (440 words)
Yoshua Perlach, as Samuel was known in Stolin, married Malke Chadak, the girl he had known since birth and would follow into the next life upon her passing.
Velvel, who passed away in Stolin, and Ester, the adopted child, were the only member of the family not to immigrate to America.
She and all of her family were believed to have perished in the Holocaust until a couple of her sons surprisingly showed up in Israel, settling near Beit Herut.
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