Liozna

Liozna (Belarusian: Лёзна, Polish: Łoźna, Russian: Лиозно) is an urban type settlement in Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus, the capital of Liozna Raion. It is located close to the border with Russia by the Vitsebsk-Smolensk railroad branch and highway, on the Moshna River. Population: 6,753 (2005)

The first known record of the Liozno shtetl (small town with a high Jewish population) is dated by 1654.

Notable people associated with Liozna

• Marc Chagall, Belarussian-Jewish painter
• Schneur Zalman, the first Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty
• Dovber Schneuri, the second Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty
• Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the third Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty

External links

• Liozno home page
• Liozno book memory
• Liozno newspaper "Styag Peramogi"
• Liozno satellite image

v t e Subdivisions of Vitebsk Region, Belarus Districts (raiony) Beshankovichy Braslaw Chashniki Dokshytsy Dubroŭna Haradok Hlybokaye Lepiel Liozna Myory Orsha Pastavy Polatsk Rasony Sharkaŭshchyna Shumilina Syanno Talachyn Ushachy Vitebsk Verkhnyadzvinsk Cities Baran Beshankovichy Braslaw Chashniki Dzisna Dokshytsy Dubroŭna Haradok Hlybokaye Lepiel Liozna Miory Navapolatsk Novalukoml Orsha Pastavy Polotsk Syanno Talachyn Vitebsk Verkhnyadzvinsk

Coordinates: 55°1′N 30°48′E / 55.017°N 30.800°E / 55.017; 30.800