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An 18th century drawing of Škłoŭ
Škłoŭ (Belarusian: Шклоў, IPA: [ʂkɫɔu̯]; {{lang-ru|Шклов, Shklov) is a town in the Mogilev Province of Belarus, located 35 km north of Mogilev on the Dnieper river. It has a railway station on the line between Orsha and Mogilev. The population is 13,282 (2007estimate[1]) It is the birthplace of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, President of Belarus 1994-the present (2007) promoted to the director of the construction materials plant in Shklov raion before he make his mark as a collective farm manager and then moved into politics.[2]
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- Railway station
- 3 Buses Route.
[edit] People
- Yitzhak Salkinsohn, born in Shklov
- Joshua Zeitlin, rabbinical scholar and philanthropist, born here
- Shklovsky, Shklover – someone from Shklov
- Yehoshua Leib Diskin, rabbi in Shklov
- Rogatchover Gaon, studied in Shklov under Yehoshua Leib
- Israel ben Samuel of Shklov (c.1770–May 13, 1839)
- Pavel Axelrod (1850-1928), Russian Menshevik revolutionary
- Zalman Shneur (1887 - 1959), Hebrew and Yiddish poet
- Baruch Schick of Shklov (1744-1808) rabbi and scholar, Hebrew author and translator[3]
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