Hlybokaye

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Hlybokaye

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Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 - Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Post code 220050
phone area code: +375 2156, postal indices: 211791, 211792, 211800

Hlybokaye (Belarusian: Глыбокае, Russian: Глубокое, Glubokoye) is a town (since 1940) in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus, the capital of the Hlybokaye District (Hlybocki District, be:Глыбоцкі раён). The first records about the settlement are dated 1514.

The remains of more than 20 people presumably shot by the Soviet NKVD secret police between 1939 and 1941, after the Union's takover of the area from Poland.[1]

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Coordinates: 55°08′N 27°41′E / 55.133°N 27.683°E / 55.133; 27.683