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Bobruisk

British  
/ bɔˈbruːɪsk /

noun

  1. a port in Belarus, on the River Berezina: engineering, timber, tyre manufacturing. Pop: 219 000 (2005 est)

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He has several streets named after him and he is celebrated in his home town of Bobruisk, in the south-east of Belarus.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2023

Ms. Golub, 32, and Ms. Karlinsky, 31, who are originally from Bobruisk, Belarus, began donating to the Ivker Fund, which collected $60,000 in 2009.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2010

Mr. & Mrs. Hecht were forced to stay in Bobruisk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some 90 miles beyond Bobruisk, on the historic Smolensk road on which Napoleon lost his army, lay Minsk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus he neglected the hostile armies of Essen at Riga, of Wittgenstein before Polotsk, of Ertell before Bobruisk, and of Tchitchakof in Volhynia.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de