Russy

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Russy is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016, the former municipalities of Domdidier, Dompierre, Léchelles and Russy merged to form Belmont-Broye.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Antoine-Henri Jomini

French-Swiss officer who served as a general with the French and Russian armies and writer on the art of war (1779-1869)

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Frédéric-Louis Allamand

botanist (1736-1803)

Michel Plancherel

Swiss mathematician (1885-1967)

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Charles Estoppey

Swiss politician (1820-1888)

Ernest Chuard

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1857-1942)

Aimée Rapin

Swiss painter (1868-1956)

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Mathieu Rebeaud

Swiss motocross rider

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Étienne Barilier

Swiss journalist, translator and writer (born 1947)

Jacques Chessex

Swiss artist (1934-2009)

Claude Lässer

Swiss politician

Henri Druey

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1799-1855)

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Charles-André Doudin

Swiss professional footballer

Jacqueline Veuve

Swiss documentary filmmaker, ethnologist and film director (1930–2013)

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Louis Bosset

Swiss archaeologist (1880-1950)

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Alphonse Layaz

Swiss writer and painter

Ferdinand Masset

Swiss politician (1920-2014)

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

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Russy

De Marinetti à Maiakovski

Graziella Lehrmann · 1942

Relation sur mon séjour en exil et l'exode des religieux jusqu'en Russie, par un novice de la Valsainte de 1797 à 1800

Nicolas Ferdinand Jérôme de Hédouville · 2003

Petits chefs-d'œuvre historiques ..

Latour, Antoine i.e. Louis Antoine Tenant de · 1846

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers