Liozna

For other uses, see Lozna (disambiguation). For the Hasidic group Liozna-Chabad, see Shaul Shimon Deutsch.

Liozna (Belarusian: Лёзна, Polish: Łoźna, Russian: Лиозно) is an urban type settlement in Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus, the capital of Liozna Raion. It is located close to the border with Russia by the Vitsebsk-Smolensk railroad branch and highway, on the Moshna River. Population: 6,753 (2005)

The first known record of the Liozno shtetl (small town with a high Jewish population) is dated by 1654.

Notable people associated with Liozna

• Marc Chagall, Belarussian-Jewish painter
• Schneur Zalman, the first Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch hasidic dynasty
• Dovber Schneuri, the second Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch hasidic dynasty
• Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the third Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch hasidic dynasty

External links

• Liozno home page
• Liozno newspaper "Styag Peramogi"
• Liozno satellite image