Tsyelyakhany
Целяханы (Belarusian)
Телеханы (Russian)
Telekhany
Urban-type settlement
Tsyelyakhany is located in Belarus
Tsyelyakhany
Tsyelyakhany
Coordinates: 52°30′26″N 25°50′32″E / 52.50722°N 25.84222°E / 52.50722; 25.84222
CountryBelarus
RegionBrest Region
DistrictIvatsevichy District
Population
 (2023)[1]
 • Total3,716
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK)

Tsyelyakhany or Telekhany (Belarusian: Целяханы, romanized: Cieliachany; Russian: Телеханы) is an urban-type settlement in Ivatsevichy District, Brest Region, Belarus.[2] It is situated in the historical region of Polesia by the Oginski Canal.[3] As of 2023, it has a population of 3,716.[1]

History

Before 1939 it was part of the Interwar Poland, the seat of Gmina Telechany, Powiat Kosówski, Polesie Voivodship.[4]

During World War II, the Jewish community was massacred by a cavalry detachment of SS in August 1941, according to the memoirs of Bogdan Mielnik, a Polish resident of Telekhany.[5][3][4][6]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "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 8 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Gaponenko, Irina Olegovna (2010). Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Брэсцкая вобласць. Minsk: Тэхналогія. p. 148. ISBN 978-985-458-198-9.
  3. 1 2 Михаил Ринский, СУДЬБА МЕСТЕЧКА ТЕЛЕХАНЫ (retrieved May 17, 2022), History of the town (in Russian)
  4. 1 2 "Telechany - Virtual Shtetl". www.sztetl.org.pl. Archived from the original on 2011-05-15.
  5. ↑ Bogdan Mielnik, Moje Telechany, Section 13 (retrieved May 17, 2022)
  6. ↑ "Yahad - in Unum".


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