Geographical location

Bobrouïsk (in Belorusse: Бабруйск ) is a town of Bielorussia located on the river Bérézina, in the area of Moguilev.

Economy

• the economic activity of the city rests mainly on the Métallurgie and industries of wood. The city, with that of Moghilev ensures 70% of the industrial production of the area of Moghilev.

Population:

227.000 inhabitants in the years 2000.

• = 7th city of the country for its number of inhabitants

Bobruisk " juive" city;

The census of 1861 gave a population of 15.766 inhabitants, origins Belorusse, Ukrainian, Polish, and Jewish. The majority of the houses were out of wood, as in the other Belorusse cities. In 1866 there were 1498 houses, of which only 29 were out of bricks. Bobruisk knew a strong growth of its Jewish population at the 19th century. In 1897, on a population of 34.336 inhabitants, 60,5%, that is to say 20.795 were Jewish, essentially craftsmen, workmen or tradesmen. Years 1880 and 1890 were remembered in Bobruisk by successive Pogroms, starting from the assassination of the tsar Alexandre II (March 13rd, 1881). Jewish organizations of self-defense known as " boyuvkes " got busy to push back these attacks.

October 22nd, 2007, the minister Israeli of the Foreign affairs protested against the declarations anti-semites and anti-Israelis of the president of Bielorussia. October 12th, Alexandre Loukachenko, speaking about misery in the rural area of Bobruisk, had declared with the radio: “Obviously, it is a Jewish city. The Jews do not pay attention to the place where they live. Look at Israel. I was over there. ” He added that the city had called the Jews for their money. Following these declarations, Yakov Basin, the first vice-president of the Belorusse Union of the organizations and Jewish communities declared: " We are not concerned (...) There are other things which worry us. In 20 years, not only one person was not punished for anti-Jewish actions and of profanation in the cemeteries, etc… Moreover, Shoah is not recognized like a single historical phenomenon as in the other countries”.

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