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BOBRUISK

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 101 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BOBRUISK , a town and formerly a first-class fortress of
Russia
 , in the government of
Minsk
 , and loo m. by
rail
  S.E. of the town of
Minsk
 , in 530 15' N. lat. and 28 52' E.
long
 ., on the right bank of the Berezina river, and on the railway from Libau and
Vilna
  to Ekaterinoslay. Pop. (186o) 23,761; (1897) 35,177, of whom one-half were
Jews
 . In the reign of Alexander I. there was erected here, at the confluence of the Bobruiska with the Berezina, nearly a mile from the town, a fort, which success-fully withstood a bombardment by
Napoleon
  in 1812, and was made equal to the best in Europe by the emperor Nicholas I. It was demolished in 1897, the defences being antiquated. The town has a military
hospital
 
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and a departmental college. There are ironworks and
flour
 -mills; and corn and timber are shipped to Libau. The town was half burnt down in 1902.


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