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Valozhyn - Belarus

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  2. Asipovichy
  3. Babrujsk, Babruysk, Bobruysk
  4. Babruysk
  5. Baranavichy
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  7. Barysau
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  22. Lida
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  24. Mahilyow
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  26. Mazyr
  27. Minsk
  28. Minsk, Miensk
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  30. Niasvizh
  31. Orsha
  32. Pinsk
  33. Polatsk
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  35. Shklou
  36. Slonim
  37. Slutsk
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  39. Svislach
  40. Turaw
  41. Valozhyn
  42. Viciebsk, Vitsebsk, Vitebsk
  43. Vitsebsk
  44. Zhlobin


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Valozhyn, Belarus


Valozhyn (Belarusian: Вало́жын; Russian: Воло́жин) is a town in the Minsk voblast of Belarus, 75 km northwest of Minsk. The population is 11,500 (1995).

Valozhyn was the site of the yeshiva (Talmudic seminary), the Volozhin yeshiva, founded in the early 19th century by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin and closed by the authorities in 1892. It spawned a large number of similar institutions in Belarus, Russia and Lithuania.





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