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I wish to visit Belarus from Australia to visit my grandfathers birthplace.My fathers memory is going and as such I can only get limited info from him.My father and grandfather where Polish and has such the town would have been in the old Poland pre 1939.The name of the town is called ''Bubruka''. I assume this is the Polish spelling of the town and I am hoping someone out there might know the Belarusian equivalent. I am also looking for a interpreter to help me generally.They must be able to Speak Polish,Russian,Ukrainian and of course Belarusian. I will be also traveling to the Ukraine and might be needing someones services for that location.
It is something really wrong with the spelling, please check it out.
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Maybe it is Babruysk??? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babruy...
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Well, could be Beaverton, that's what Bobruisk literally does mean. But it wasn't part of Poland in 1920-1939. It's a pretty big city and probably Russian in majority. Russian is anyway the lingua franca in the area, I did not meat anyone even in deep West Ukrainian province who could not speak Russian fluently and I would say, 100%. Now the local accent could be thick (or they think, my accent is thick). Like if you are from Edinburg and going to Austin, than the language is still "English" but more differences than between Russian or even Croatian.
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Was there a nearby major town or a regional center where local people normally went for some shopping in the old times? Because the one you are talking about might as well be Bobrovka or anything else. Is there any way you can check that? A
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Hello Burdenoff To tell you the truth I have no idea about the location of the town.Most likely the location might have been wiped out during WW2. Did small towns after the war get rebuilt? I think I am trying to find a needle in a haystack......... Mark Bischof.
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You see, 209 out of 290 towns were destroyed with a part of population and 619 villages were burnt to the ground with ENTIRE population. There is a complex called Khatyn dedicated to the matter. 433 villages have been restored since the war so that town might be one of them. It might have never been destroyed, too. Funnily enough, I accompanied an Aussie to Naliboki this summer - 100 km away from Minsk - he found the tombstone of his granny) A
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Hello Felix Thank you so much for your info.Have you been to the location that you have mentioned? And when you say that it was under Polish occupation do you mean that it was polish territory then? I can relate to you saying that there was many different people living there. The world was very different then . thanks again Mark Bischof.
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Look at the new map of Minsk+scheme of Belatrus in the newsstands. Polack. Another way, eveything is quite understable. more
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