Volozhin

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Volozhin

a city (since 1940), the center of Volozhin Raion, Minsk Oblast, Byelorussian SSR. It is located on the Volozhinka River, 17 km from the Volozhin railroad station (on the Molodechno-Lida line). Population, 5,800 (1969). It has a creamery.

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On 15 February, Belarusian police arrested the leader of the ZPB, Angelika Borys, along with some 40 other activists on their way to a rally in Valozhyn, in the West of the country.

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After an intensive education in the Jewish classics, he attended for a short time the Jewish academy in Volozhin (now Valozhyn, Belarus).

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On 15 February, Belarusian police arrested the leader of the Union of Poles in Belarus (ZPB), Angelika Borys, along with some 40 other activists on their way to a rally in Valozhyn, in the west of the country.