Lyozna

For other uses, see Lozna (disambiguation). For the Hasidic group Liozna-Chabad, see Shaul Shimon Deutsch.

Lyozna or Liozno^[a] is an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.^[1] It serves as the administrative center of Lyozna District.^[2][1] It is located 45 kilometres (28 mi) east-southeast of Vitebsk,^[3] close to the border with Russia by the Vitebsk–Smolensk railroad branch and highway, on the Moshna River. As of 2025, it has a population of 6,515.^[1]

Lyozna Лёзна (Belarusian) Лиозно (Russian)
Urban-type settlement
Town hall
Flag Coat of arms
Lyozna
Coordinates: 55°1′N 30°48′E / 55.017°N 30.800°E / 55.017; 30.800
Country	Belarus
Region	Vitebsk Region
District	Lyozna District
Established	1527
Elevation	193 m (633 ft)
Population  (2025)[1]
• Total	6,515
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)
Area code	+375 2138
License plate	2
Website	liozno.vitebsk-region.gov.by

History

Lyozna is first mentioned in 1527. In 1654, it was mentioned as a shtetl (small town with a high Jewish population).

World War II

In 1939, 711 Jews lived in the settlement, making up 17.3 percent of the population.^[3]

During the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the settlement was captured on 16 July 1941 by V Army Corps of the 9th Army; it was part of Army Group Centre Rear Area.^[3] The ghetto in Lyozna was liquidated at the end of February 1942.^[4] Lyozna remained under German military occupation until 8 October 1943.^[5]

Notable people

• Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French 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

Notes

1. Belarusian: Лёзна, romanized: Liozna; Russian: Лиозно, romanized: Liozno; Polish: Łoźna; German: Ljesno; Yiddish: ליאזנע, romanized: Lyozne.

References

1. "Численность населения на 1 января 2025 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2024 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 29 March 2025. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
2. Gaponenko, Irina Olegovna (2009). Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Віцебская вобласць. Minsk: Тэхналогія. p. 293. ISBN 978-985-458-192-7.
3. Megargee & Dean 2012, p. 1699.
4. Megargee & Dean 2012, p. 1700.
5. Освобождение городов

Sources

• Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Dean, Martin (4 May 2012). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933 –1945: Volume II: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00202-0.

External links

• Lyozna home page
• Lyozna book memory
• Lyozna newspaper "Styag Peramogi"
• Lyozna satellite image
• The murder of the Jews of Lyozna during World War II, at Yad Vashem website
• Lyëzna, Belarus at JewishGen