Mahilyow

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Mahilyow

Total population

353,110

Coordinates53.91°, 30.34°

Demographic figures from Belstat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Mogilev, or Mahilyow, is a city in eastern Belarus. It is located on the Dnieper River, about 76 kilometres from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and 105 km from Bryansk Oblast. As of 2025, it has a population of 352,896. In 2011, its population was 360,918, up from an estimated 106,000 in 1956. It serves as the administrative centre of Mogilev Region, and is the third-largest city in Belarus.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Issai Schur

German mathematician (1875–1941)

Janusz Dziewoński

Polish actor (1890–1953)

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Alyaksandr Bychanok

Belarusian association football player and manager (1985-)

Max Eitingon

German psychoanalyst & physician (1881–1943)

Otto Schmidt

Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)

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Hyenadz Navitski

5th Prime Minister of Belarus 2001–2003

Dmitry Verkhovtsov

Belarusian footballer (born 1986)

Irina Dorofeeva

Belarusian singer and politician

Alyona Lanskaya

Belarusian singer

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Leonid Mandelstam

Soviet physicist

Andrey Harbunow

Belarusian footballer

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Abram Poljak

German author (1900–1963)

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Labori Kalmanson

Russian poet, author and writer (1901-1937)

Lev Polugaevsky

chess player (1934–1995)

Rosalia Zemlyachka

Russian revolutionary (1876-1947)

David Pinski

Yiddish language writer (1872 – 1959)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

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