Ščadryn

Also known as Schedrin, Shedrin, Shchedrin

Shchadryn or Shchedrin (; ; ) is an agrotown in Zhlobin District, Gomel Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Shchadryn selsoviet.

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Settlement.name: Shchadryn
Settlement.other_name: Shchedrin
Settlement.settlement_type: Agrotown
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.established_date: 1846
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Belarus
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Gomel Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Zhlobin District
Settlement.pushpin_map: Belarus
Settlement.population_total: 1,759
Settlement.population_as_of: 1926
Settlement.image_skyline: Ghetto Shchedrin (Gomel Region).jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Monument to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Shchedrin

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Шчадрын
Population: 515
Image: Щедрин, Жлобинский район, Гомельская область, Беларусь 02.jpg

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described at URL: chabadpedia.co.il/index.php/%D7%A9%D7%A6%D7%A2%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9F
romanization of Belarusian (2007 system): Ščadryn
Commons category: Ščadryn
native label: Шчадрын
time of earliest written record: 1800-00-00
Belarus Globe URL: globustut.by/schedrin/index.htm

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Shchadryn or Shchedrin (; ; ) is an agrotown in Zhlobin District, Gomel Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Shchadryn selsoviet.

Before the Holocaust, the settlement functioned as a shtetl and was home to members of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hasidic Judaism.