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Berezino

a city (since 1968); administrative center of Berezino Raion, Minsk Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, on the Berezino River (Dnieper basin), 50 km from the Grodzianka railroad station. Population, 6,400 (1968). There is a peat-briquette factory and a distillery.

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Born Izrail' Lazarevich Gel'fand (Helphand) in Berazino, east of Minsk, in 1867, Parvus gained notoriety under his pen name in the SPD at the end of the 19th century.

Born in 1867 to a Jewish lower middle-class family in the shtetl of Berazino in what is now Belarus', Israil Helphand (Izrail' Gel'fand) was raised in Odessa, a cosmopolitan port city on the Black Sea, where he attended a Russian secondary school.