Babinavichy

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Babinavichy Бабінавічы (Belarusian) Бабиновичи (Russian)
Agrotown
Seal
Babinavichy
Coordinates: 54°50′N 30°33′E / 54.833°N 30.550°E / 54.833; 30.550
Country	Belarus
Region	Vitebsk Region
District	Lyozna District
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)

Babinavichy (Belarusian: Бабінавічы, romanized: Babinavičy; Russian: Бабиновичи, romanized: Babinovichi) is an agrotown in Lyozna District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Babinavichy selsoviet.^[1]

The town traditionally supplied timber for the Imperial Russian Navy, as is reflected in its coat-of-arms which depicts two masts.

The town was previously a Jewish shtetl situated in the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1930, there were 262 Jews living there, with 115 remaining at the start of the war.^[2]

• Chaya Mushka Schneerson (1901–1988), daughter of Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn and wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson.^[3]

• Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Dean, Martin (2012). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume II. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. pp. 1699–1700. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.

• The murder of the Jews of Babinavichy during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.

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