Hlusk

Urban-type settlement in Mogilev Region, Belarus

Hlusk Глуск Hłusk
Urban-type settlement

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52°53′22.09″N 28°41′32.03″E / 52.8894694°N 28.6922306°E / 52.8894694; 28.6922306
Country	Belarus
Region	Mogilev Region
District	Hlusk District
Population (2023)^[1]
• Total	7,078
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)
Postal code	213879
Area Code	+375 2230
License plate	6
Website	glusk.mogilev-region.by

Hlusk (Belarusian: Глуск; Russian: Глуск, romanized: Glusk; Polish: Hłusk; Yiddish: האלוסק, romanized: Halusk)^[2] is an urban-type settlement in Mogilev Region, Belarus.^[1] It serves as the administrative center of Hlusk District, and is home to nearly half of its district's residents.^[3] As of 2023, it has a population of 7,078.^[1]

History

The earliest written records of Hlusk date back to the 15th century. In March 1655, during the Russo-Polish War, the village was destroyed by the Cossacks,^[4] and thus released by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from paying taxes for the following ten years.^[5] There was an active Jewish community there, where Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Zimmerman and later Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz served as rabbi (Rabbi Leibowitz later moved to Lithuania).^[6] During the Second Partition of Poland, Hlusk became part of the Russian Empire.

War

Hlusk was captured by the Germans in World War II on June 28, 1941, and with such a small population, they didn't put up much of a fight. On December 2, 1941, the Germans massacred much of the Hlusk population, an impact of which the people of the small town still feel today. The Soviet Union finally liberated Hlusk on June 27, 1944.

Gallery

Hlusk, Early 1900s
Old photo of Babruysk Street, Hlusk
Hlusk street, 2008
Hlusk street, 2008
Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, former rabbi of Hlusk (until 1904)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
^ "Hlusk, Belarus". Jewishgen.com. JewishGen. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
^ Численность населения областей и районов: Могилевская (PDF) (in Russian). Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
^ Анатоль Грыцкевіч. Глуск //Энцыклапедыя гісторыі Беларусі. У 6 т. Т. 3: Гімназіі — Кадэнцыя / Беларус. Энцыкл.; Рэдкал.: Г. П. Пашкоў (гал. рэд.) і інш.; Маст. Э. Э. Жакевіч. — Мн.: БелЭн, 1996. С. 48.
^ Грыцкевіч А. Глуск // Вялікае княства Літоўскае: Энцыклапедыя. У 3 т. / Рэдкал.: Г. П. Пашкоў (гал. рэд.) і інш.; маст. З. Э. Герасімовіч. — Мн.: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя, 2005. — Т. 1: Абаленскі — Кадэнцыя. — С. 537. — 688 с. — ISBN 985-11-0314-4 (т. 1), ISBN 985-11-0315-2.
^ "Rav Boruch Ber Leibowitz". Yeshivavolozhin.org. Retrieved August 15, 2020.