Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Svetlahorsk
Svetlahorsk (Belarusian: Сьветлаго́рск; Russian: Светлого́рск, also transliterated as Svetlogorsk) is a city in Homyel voblast, Belarus. It is located by river Berezina. Before the 1961 - a village Shatsilki . A railroad station on the Zhlobin-Kalinkavichy railway. About 60 000 inhabitants.
Industry: Vasilevichskaya power plant, chemicals man-made fiber plant, reinforced concrete industrial complex, some oil producing industry, pulp and paper milk, butter-making factory, bakery. An industrial colledge.
Sights: an orthodox church and a cathedral; a catholic cathedral, a quay, a museum of local lore.
10-26-2009 08:16:03
The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details
The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details




