Machulishi is a municipality and urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlements in Belarus

According to a 1998 law of the Republic of Belarus, there ate three categories of urban-type settlements in Belarus:*Urban settlements : with population over 2,000, industrial enterprises and developed residential infrastructure...

 in Belarus

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 ,...

, located in the Minsk Region. It is part of the Minsk Raion

Minsk Raion

Minsk Raion is a second-level administrative subdivision of Belarus in the Minsk Voblast.The administrative seat is the city of Minsk, administratively separated from the raion. The most populated town of the proper raion is Zaslawye....

 and its population, as of 2010, was of 7,300.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1590. In 1997 it received the status of "urban-type settlement" (Городской посёлок).

Geography

Situated in southern suburb of Minsk

Minsk

- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

, Machulishi is part of its urban area and one of its main towns also with Zaslawye and Fanipol

Fanipol

Fanipol or Fanipal - is a city in the Minsk Voblast of Belarus. Fanipol is located in Dzyarzhynsk Raion, southwest of Minsk and southwest of the Minsk Automobile Ring Road.-History:The community that became Fanipol was first mentioned in 1856...

. It is served by a railway station

Train station

A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 on the Minsk-Babruysk

Babruysk

Babruysk or Bobruysk is a city in the Mahilyow Voblast of Belarus on the Berezina river. It is a large city in Belarus with a population of approximately 227,000 people . The name Babruysk probably originates from the Belarusian word babyor , many of which used to inhabit the Berezina...

-Gomel and by the M1 highway

M1 highway (Belarus)

The M1 , Magistral Route Nr. 1, olimpijka is a main road crossing Belarus. It forms a part of European route E30 and is the most important road link in the country, connecting Moscow to the east with Poland and Western Europe....

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