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Shklow Шклоў (Belarusian) Шклов (Russian)
Town
FlagCoat of arms
ShklowLocation of Shklow, shown within Mogilev Region
Coordinates: 54°13′25″N 30°17′11″E / 54.22361°N 30.28639°E / 54.22361; 30.28639
Country	Belarus
Region	Mogilev Region
District	Shklow District
Population
• Total	14,870
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)
License plate	6

Shklow (Belarusian: Шклоў, romanized: Škloŭ, IPA: [ʂkɫɔu̯]; Russian: Шклов, romanized: Shklov; Yiddish: שקלאָוו, romanized: Shklov; Lithuanian: Šklovas; Polish: Szkłów) is a town in Mogilev Region, Belarus, located 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Mogilev on the Dnieper River. It serves as the administrative center of Shklow District. It has a railway station on the line between Orsha and Mogilev. In 2009, its population was 16,439. As of 2024, it has a population of 14,870.

History

• 1535: First records about the town.
• 1654: Battle of Shklow (1654)
• 1664: Battle of Shklow (1664)
• April 10, 1762: Coat of arms.

Shklov was an important Jewish religious center. There was a yeshiva there in the 18th century. Shklov became the center of the Haskalah movement. At the end of the 19th century, there were 5542 Jews in the town. Jews traded for a living. A dozen families worked in the Jewish kolkhoz Iskra. In 1939, only 2132 Jews remained in Shklov. The Germans occupied the town on July 12, 1941.

The first execution of Jews took place just a few days into the occupation. The Germans shot 25 Jewish men in Lenin Park. At the end of July 1941, two ghettos were established in the neighboring village of Ryzhkovichi. In August 1941, the Einsatzgruppen arrived in the town and gathered 84 Jews under the pretext of sending them to forced labor. In fact, they were taken to the village of Semyonovka and were shot in the kolkhoz. In September 1941, the Jews were taken to a ravine in Khoduly, between the villages of Putniki and Zarechye. They had to undress and lie in the ditch before being shot. According to Soviet sources, 3200 Jews were killed in Shklow and the surrounding neighborhood.

Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus since 1994, held a position as the director of the construction materials plant in Shklow Raion before he became a kolkhoz director and then moved into politics.

Transport

• 1 railway station
• 3 bus routes

Notable people

The Jewish family name Shklovsky or Shklover indicates that the person or their ancestors come from Shkloŭ.

• Semyon Zorich, Serbian-born Russian General who founded an estate in Shkloŭ (Shklov).
• Yitzhak Salkinsohn, born in Shklov
• Joshua Zeitlin, rabbinical scholar and philanthropist, born here
• Yehoshua Leib Diskin, rabbi in Shklov
• Rogatchover Gaon, studied in Shklov under Yehoshua Leib
• Pavel Axelrod (1850–1928), Russian Menshevik revolutionary
• Zalman Shneur (1887–1959), Hebrew and Yiddish poet
• Baruch Schick of Shklov (1744–1808) rabbi and scholar, Hebrew author and translator
• Josef Gusikov, klezmer musician, born in Shklov
• Naum Eitingon, general of the NKVD and murderer of Leon Trotsky, born in Shklov
• Yisroel ben Shmuel of Shklov, Rabbi, disciple of the Vilna Gaon
• Menachem Mendel of Shklov, Rabbi, disciple of the Vilna Gaon, leader of Perushim migration to the Holy Land in 1808
• Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, studied and lived in Shklov before emigrating to the United States to become the preeminent Torah sage and posek of his generation

Gallery

See also

• Battle of Holowczyn

Notes

1. Official transliteration.

References

1. ^ "Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on April 2, 2024. Retrieved April 13, 2024.
2. Численность населения областей и районов: Могилевская (PDF) (in Russian). Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 18, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
3. "SHKLOV". Jewish Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
4. "My shtetl\Shklov". Archived from the original on February 24, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
5. "Execution of Jews in Shklov". Execution Site of Jewish Victims. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
6. Profile: Alexander Lukashenko – BBC News, 9 January 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2007. Archived December 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
7. The Haskalah Movement In Russia – Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
8. Finkelman, Shimon (2011). Reb Moshe : the life and ideals of haGaon Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. ISBN 978-1-4226-1084-8. OCLC 805391556.

External links

• Photos on Radzima.org
• SHKLOV in the JewishEncyclopedia
• The murder of the Jews of Shkloŭ during World War II, at Yad Vashem website
• Shklow, Belarus at JewishGen

• Historic Jewish communities in Belarus
• Holocaust locations in Belarus
• Populated places on the Dnieper in Belarus
• Shklow