Narowlya (; ; ) is a town in Gomel Region,

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

. It serves as the administrative center of Narowlya District. As of 2025, it has a population of 8,388. In 1986, the city experienced heavy

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from the

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. Today it is located on the border of

Polesie State Radioecological Reserve The Polesie State Radioecological Reserve (PSRER; ; ) is a radioecological nature reserve in the Polesie region of Belarus, which was created to enclose the territory of Belarus most affected by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster ...

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Brockhaus_and_Efron_Jewish_Encyclopedia_e11_523-0.jpg, Wooden synagogue before 1906. Aron_Kascialianski_-_Sinagoga_u_Narouli_-_near_1927_AD.JPG, Painting of around 1927 by Aron Kascialianski (1891-1934) Naraŭlanskaja_synagoga._Нараўлянская_сынагога_(1916).jpg, Synagogue in 1916

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Populated places in Belarus Populated places in Gomel region Narowlya district {{Belarus-geo-stub