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Chashniki, Lepel uyezd, Vitebsk gubernia

Latitude: 54º52' Longitude: 29º10'

There is an article about Chashniki in the Encyclopedicheskii Slovar, a non-Jewish Russian language encyclopedia. The article can be found in volume XXXVIII, i, page 448, and is 24 lines long. (contributed by Joel Spector)
There is an article about Chashniki in the Jewish Encyclopedia. The article can be found in volume III, page 679-680, and is 15 lines long. (contributed by Joel Spector)
There is an article about Chashniki in the Russian language Jewish Encyclopedia (Evreiskaya Encyclopedia). The article can be found in volume XV, page 844, and is 9 lines long. (contributed by Joel Spector)

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Links for the shtetl of Chashniki

Click here for A list of the Jews of Chashniki who were killed by the Nazis on February 12, 1942, contributed by Rav Eliyahu Tavger
Click here for the 1960-1975 Chasnich-Bieshenkowitz Society Membership Dues Lists

Links for the gubernia of Vitebsk

Click here for 1911 Vitebsk vsia rossiia
Click here for an article by Alex Friedman
Click here for Guberniya District Maps from the 1899 edition of Vsia Rossiia, by Michael Steinore. Link for Vitebsk Gubernia is at the bottom of this page.
Click here for Jewish population of Vitebsk gubernia according to the 1897 census
Click here for the 1911 Vsia Rossiia - Vitebsk Gubernia - data compiled by members of the Belarus SIG
Click here for the Jewish agricultural colonies in Western Russia, prior to 1904, by Lou Goldman
Click here for the Vitebsk Regional Library
Click here for Vitebsk gubernia page of the Belarus SIG. Includes a list of all the known shtetls for this gubernia.

Shtetls of Belarus

Chashniki, Lepel uyezd, Vitebsk gubernia

Latitude: 54º52' Longitude: 29º10'

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