Lyozna
Liozna ([Лёзна] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), Polish: Łoźna, [Лиозно] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) 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, Russian-French 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 book memory
- Liozno newspaper "Styag Peramogi"
- Liozno satellite image
- The murder of the Jews of Liozna during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.
55°1′N 30°48′E / 55.017°N 30.800°E
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