Smilavichy (; ; ; ) is an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

in Chervyen District, Minsk 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 ...

. As of 2024, it has a population of 6,586. In Jewish tradition it is known as ''Smilovitz'', and was a

shtetl or ( ; , ; Grammatical number#Overview, pl. ''shtetelekh'') is a Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish populations which Eastern European Jewry, existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The t ...

in the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

Notable people

Ibrahim Kanapacki Ibrahim Barysavič Kanapacki (; , ''Ibrahim Boris uly Kanapatsky''; 28 February 1949 – 9 September 2005) was a Belarusian Lipka Tatar religious, political, and cultural leader. Early life and career Ibrahim Kanapacki was born to Barys Ibr ...

(1949–2005), Belarusian

Lipka Tatar The Lipka Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group and minority in Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the 14th century. The first Tatar settlers tried to preserve their Pagan tradi ...

religious, political, and cultural leader * Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943), painter

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* Urban-type settlements in Belarus Smilavichy Chervyen district {{Belarus-geo-stub