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Telekhany is an
urban settlement An Urban settlement is a concentrated settlement that is part of an urban area. It is an area with high density of human-created structures. *Municipal urban settlement, a type of subdivision such as Cape town in Western Cape *Urban settlement, ...
in Ivatsevichy Raion of the
Brest Region Brest Region or Brest Oblast or Brest Voblasts ( be, Брэ́сцкая во́бласць ''(Bresckaja vobłasć)''; russian: Бре́стская о́бласть (''Brestskaya Oblast)'') is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative cent ...
in Belarus. Name spelling variants: be, Целяханы: ''Celjahany'',''Tsseljahany'', sometimes ''Tselyakhani'', ''Celjachani''; pl, Telechany; russian: Телеханы: Telekhany, ''Telehany'', yi, : ''Telekhan'', ''Telechan'', ''Telechon''; other: ''Telekhani'', ''Telekani''. Telekhany has about 4,500 inhabitants. It is situated in the
Polesia Polesia, Polesie, or Polesye, uk, Полісся (Polissia), pl, Polesie, russian: Полесье (Polesye) is a natural and historical region that starts from the farthest edge of Central Europe and encompasses Eastern Europe, including East ...
region by the
Oginski Canal The Oginski Canal is a canal in Belarus which connects Yaselda River The Yaselda (, alternative transliteration ''Jasieĺda'', , ), is a river in Brest Region in south-west Belarus. It is linked via the Dnieper–Bug Canal to the city of Pinsk. ...
.Михаил Ринский
СУДЬБА МЕСТЕЧКА ТЕЛЕХАНЫ
(retrieved May 17, 2022), History of the town (in Russian)


History

Before 1939 it was part of the
Interwar Poland The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of the First Worl ...
, the seat of , . During World War II, the Jewish community was massacred by a cavalry detachment of SS in August 1941, according to the memoirs of Bogdan Mielnik, a Polish resident of Telekhany.


Notable residents

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George Koval George Abramovich Koval ( rus, Жорж (Георгий) Абрамович Коваль, p=ˈʐorʐ (ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj) ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈvalʲ, a=Ru-George Abramovich Koval.flac, Zhorzh Abramovich Koval; December 25, 1913 – January 31 ...
an American, a Soviet spy infiltrating the
Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project ...


Notes


External links


Photos on Globus.tut.by
(text in Russian)
Photos on Radzima.org


(mostly English)
Genealogy of the Ajzenberg/Eisenberg/Eizenberg family of Telechan
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** ttp://www.ajzenberg.com/Book/37.htm Section of book on Telechan from AJZENBERGS OF TELECHAN by Arthur Eisenberg Populated places in Brest Region Urban-type settlements in Belarus Brest Litovsk Voivodeship Pinsky Uyezd Polesie Voivodeship Shtetls Jewish Belarusian history Holocaust locations in Belarus {{Belarus-geo-stub