Dzernavichy

Dzernavichy

Дзёрнавічы (Belarusian)
Дёрновичи (Russian)
Dernovichi
Dzernavichy Дзёрнавічы (Belarusian); Дёрновичи (Russian) Dernovichi
	Dzernavichy Location of Dzernavichy in Belarus
	Coordinates: 51°36′20″N 29°43′58″E / 51.60556°N 29.73278°E
Country	Belarus
Region	Gomel Region
District	Narowlya District
Founded	18th century
Population
• Total	0
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)
Area code	+375 2355
License plate	3

Dzernavichy^[1] or Dernovichi (Belarusian: Дзёрнавічы, romanized: Dzyornavichy; Russian: Дёрновичи, romanized: Dyornovichi) is an abandoned village in Narowlya District, Gomel Region, Belarus.^[2]

History

Founded in the 18th century, in 1939 it annexed the farm Krasilovka (Russian: Красиловка). In 1943, during World War II, it was interested by the underground activities of Soviet partisans and was partially burned and ransacked by the Waffen-SS, that established a stronghold there. It was liberated on November 30, after a battle.

in 1959 it had a population of 1,016, with 308 families. Following the 1986 nuclear disaster of Chernobyl, it was abandoned and, from 1988, included in the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve;^[3] a Belarusian nature reserve that adjoins the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

Geography

The village is located by the western shore of the Pripyat River, in front of Aravichy, between the cities of Pripyat, in Ukraine, and Narowlya.^[2]

References

^ The names of settlements of the Republic of Belarus: Gomel Region: normative reference. N.A. Bagamolnikava et al; ed. V.P. Lemtyugovoy, Mn. Technology, 2006. ISBN 985-458-131-4. (PDF Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine)
^ ^a ^b OSM: location of Dzernavichy
^ "Polesie State Radioecological Reserve: about". Archived from the original on 2014-06-22. Retrieved 2016-10-23.