Hlybokaye
Encyclopedia
Hlybokaye is a town (since 1940) in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus
, the capital of the Hlybokaye Raion
(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 takeover of the area from Poland
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Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
, the capital of the Hlybokaye Raion
Hlybokaye Raion
Hlybokaye Raion is a second-level administrative subdivision of Belarus in the Vitebsk Region....
(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
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
NKVD
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....
secret police between 1939 and 1941, after the Union's takeover of the area from Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
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