On 16 July 1863 the local landowner Tomasz Hryniewicz was executed here by a Russian firing squad for leading the Rahachow detachment of Polish insurgents.
During World War II, Rahachow was occupied by the German Army from 2 July 1941 to 13 July 1941, and again from 14 August 1941 to 24 February 1944.
Rahachow also has a popular dairy product factory, whose products are supplied across Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
"Castle Hill" - a hill on which the castle of Queen Bona was located
Monument to the founding of the city in the center of the "Castle Hill" with the inscription "From here the city of Rogachev went in the summer of 1142."
rahachow, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, august, 2023, lea. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Rahachow news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Rahachow a or Rogachev Belarusian Ragacho y romanized Rahacoŭ b IPA raɣaˈtʂou Russian Rogachyov romanized Rogachyov Polish Rohaczow Yiddish ראגאטשאוו IPA ragat ʃov is a town in Gomel Region Belarus It serves as the administrative center of Rahachow District 1 Rahachow is located between the Drut and Dnieper rivers As of 2023 it has a population of 32 029 1 Rahachow Ragachoy Belarusian Rogachyov Russian RogachevTownFlagCoat of armsRahachowCoordinates 53 6 N 30 3 E 53 100 N 30 050 E 53 100 30 050CountryBelarusRegionGomel RegionDistrictRahachow DistrictFounded1142Area Total18 06 km2 6 97 sq mi Elevation136 m 446 ft Population 2023 1 Total32 029 Density1 800 km2 4 600 sq mi Time zoneUTC 3 MSK Postal code247250Area code 375 2339Licence plate3WebsiteOfficial website in Russian Contents 1 History 2 Notable people 3 Sights 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThe town is first mentioned in 1142 in Russian chronicles 2 From the late thirteenth century it was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and then the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth In 1772 the area was annexed by the Russian Empire On 16 July 1863 the local landowner Tomasz Hryniewicz was executed here by a Russian firing squad for leading the Rahachow detachment of Polish insurgents During World War II Rahachow was occupied by the German Army from 2 July 1941 to 13 July 1941 and again from 14 August 1941 to 24 February 1944 Rahachow also has a popular dairy product factory whose products are supplied across Russia Ukraine and Belarus Notable people editJoseph Rosen 1858 1936 rabbi Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan 1902 1980 artist Sergei Bautin 1967 2022 ice hockey playerSights editChurch of St Anthony of Padua Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky Castle Hill a hill on which the castle of Queen Bona was located Monument to the founding of the city in the center of the Castle Hill with the inscription From here the city of Rogachev went in the summer of 1142 Jewish Cemetery in Rahachow The building of the former zemstvo council House of merchant Belenky Eco Museum Belarusian Lyalka Museum of Popular Glory House of Uladzimir Karatkievich s grandfather Monument to condensed milk Rahachow booms clarification needed Icon of the Mother of God with four hands Three family tombs Greshnerov Iolshinov Verzheisky Memorial to the leader of the national liberation uprising of 1863 Tomas GrinevichNotes edit BGN PCGN romanization Official transliteration References edit a b c Chislennost naseleniya na 1 yanvarya 2023 g i srednegodovaya chislennost naseleniya za 2022 god po Respublike Belarus v razreze oblastej rajonov gorodov poselkov gorodskogo tipa belsat gov by Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 Retrieved 5 August 2023 Dimnik Martin 12 June 2003 The Dynasty of Chernigov 1146 1246 Cambridge University Press p 25 ISBN 978 1 139 43684 7 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rahachow Photos on Radzima org nbsp This Belarus location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rahachow amp oldid 1184258516, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
