Mstsislaw

Mstsislaw (Mstsislavl, Polish: Mścislaw) is a town in Mogilev Oblast, Belarus. In the late Middle Ages it was a center of a principality. The city is on the banks of the Sosch River just a few kilometers from the border with Russia.

Understand

It is the capital of a rayon in the Mahiljou Oblast. In the Middle Ages it was the center of a principality. It belonged to Poland-Lithuania until the First Partition of Poland in 1772 and then came to tsarist Russia.

Get in

By plane

Via the Minsk-2 international airport.

By train

The nearest rail connection is 25 km away.

By car

The city of Minsk is on the highway M4 and Mogilev and continue on the P122 and Chavusy reached and the P73.

See

  • 🌍 Castle Hill (Гарадзішча «Замкавая Гара»). The original location of the medieval city, now an archaeological site.
  • Carmelite church and monastery, probably built in 1654.
  • Jesuit Church and College

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