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9 unusual facts about Lida


Aleksander Romanowicz

Born April 1, 1871 in his family estate Olekszyszki (near Lida), in 1890 he graduated from the Russian Army Cadet Corps in Polotsk, then entered the Officer’s School of Cavalry, becoming in 1892 a professional officer of the Russian Army.

American World Patriarchs

This new congregation, heading by Bishop Huszcza with six assisting priests in Minsk, Lida, and Siomki Goradok, was reported as having a membership of thirty-five thousand and continuing to grow.

Bobrovichi

It was home to 953 BAP (953rd Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24 aircraft from 1978 subordinated to 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division (1 GvBAD) in Lida (1960-1980) and then 32nd Bomber Aviation Division (1980-1992).

David ben Aryeh Leib

Rabbi David ben Aryeh Leib of Lida (c.1650-1696) wrote works of rabbinic literature, including Sefer Shomer Shabbat and books on the 613 Mitzvot, bris milah, the Shulchan Aruch, the Book of Ruth, and Jewish ethics (Divrei David, 1671).

Grodzinski Bakery

In 1888, (although this date is still used in all publicity material and for Centenary celebrations, research at Public Records Office in Kew has indicated that they arrived in 1890) Harris and Judith Grodzinski, bakers by trade, joined many members of the Jewish community in Tsarist Lithuania in migrating westward from Voronova - a shtetl near Lida, currently Belarus, establishing themselves in the East End of London.

Lida

Also, Lida was an important garrison of the Polish Army, with one infantry division and the 5th Corps of the Polish Air Force stationed there.

During the Cold War and up until 1993 Lida was home to the 1st Guards Bomber Aviation Division of the Soviet Air Force.

Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery

Large memorials to the destroyed shtetls of Lithuania and Lida, and victims of the Babi Yar massacre, feature prominently along the central avenue of the western section of the cemetery.

Wiktor Thommée

After graduating from trade schools in Lida and Dyneburg (modern Daugavpils, Latvia), in 1901 he joined an officers' school in St. Petersburg.


Andrei Pavlovich Ablameyko

After the death of his father Ian Matusevich in December 1998, he was ordained to the priesthood by Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Przemyśl–Warsaw, Archbishop Jan Martyniak in Lublin and was appointed rector of the parish of Saint Joseph in Minsk, as well as parish administrator in Lida and Maladzechna.

Eliza Calvert Hall

Lida's father Thomas Chalmers Calvert was born in Giles County, Tennessee to Samuel Wilson Calvert, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife Eliza Caroline (Hall) Calvert.

HK Lida

HK Lida were founded in 2011 and joined the Belarusian Extraleague for the start of the 2011–12 season.

Lauryshava Monastery

In 1993, the Orthodox Archbishop of Białystok and Gdansk Sawa (Hrycuniak) and the Bishop of Navahrudak and Lida Kanstantsin (Haranau) consecrated the site of the monastery church.

Přednosta stanice

The other actors are Čeněk Šlégl, Růžena Šlemrová, Václav Trégl, Theodor Pištěk Sr, Marie Norrová, Darja Hajská, František Černý, Karel Postranecký, J. Hradčanský, Bolek Prchal, Emanuel Kovařík, Ada Dohnal, Lída Borovcová, Zdeněk Martínek, Míla Svoboda, Karel Veverka, Dalibor Pták, Vojta Merten, Alois Dvorský, F. X. Mlejnek, Václav Švec, Antonín Zacpal and Zita Kabátová.

Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty

Modern Belarusian historiography regards the treaty, especially the cession of ethnic Belarusian territories to Lithuania (primarily Hrodna, Shchuchyn, Lida, Ashmyany, Smarhon, Pastavy, Braslaw, but also the contemporary Vilnius Region with Vilna) as a unilateral act by the Soviet authorities that disregarded the national interests of the Belarusian people, aimed at immediate military and political gains.

Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits

1-1, 1-3, 2-2, 2-4, 2-6 (Rokusuke Ei/Hachidai Nakamura); 1-2 (K. Sakamoto/Trad, arr T. Hagiwara); 1-4, 2-3 (Y. Aoshima/D. Lima); 1-5 (Y. Aoshima/H. Nakamura); 1-6 (Fred Tobias/Clint Ballard, Jr./Sazanami); 2-1 (Y. Yamada/D. Lida); 2-5 (Wittstatt/Loose/Sazanami)

Walerian Protasewicz

To that end Protasewicz bequested several manors and villages near Varniai, Trakai, Maišiagala, Širvintos, Lida.


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