Pruzhany

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title: "Pruzhany" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["pruzhany", "pruzhany-district", "populated-places-in-brest-region", "populated-places-in-belarus", "holocaust-locations-in-belarus"] description: "Town in Brest Region, Belarus" topic_path: "technology/web" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruzhany" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Town in Brest Region, Belarus ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
name	Pruzhany
native_name	Пружаны
settlement_type	Town
image_skyline	Pruzhany Palace December 2023.jpg
image_caption	Pruzhany Palace
image_flag	Pruzhany-flag-concept-d1.jpg
image_shield	Coat of Arms of Pružany, Belarus.svg
shield_size	75px
flag_size	150px
pushpin_map	Belarus
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Belarus
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Brest Region
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Pruzhany District
established_title	Mentioned
established_date	1487
population_as_of	2025
population_footnotes
population_total	18,824
timezone	MSK
utc_offset	+3
coordinates
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	225133
area_code	+375 1632
blank_name	License plate
blank_info	1
::

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History

Pruzhany has been known as Dabuchyn since 1487. In the 16th century, it belonged to queen Bona Sforza of Poland. She brought Renaissance influence and development of trades in this part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1589, her daughter Anna granted a town charter and the coat of arms of Pruzhany (a blue snake swallowing a baby on a silver shield). The coat of arms was borrowed from that of the Sforza family of Milan. Pruzhany was a center of pottery trade at those times. In the mid-19th century, a wealthy Polish landlord, Walenty Szwykowski, laid out a park and built a pretentious palace that houses a museum today, after a restoration. The museum has a rich collection on the history and arts of the region. Another tourist attraction is the landmark at the confluence of the Mukha River and the Vets Canal. It presents a statue of a passionate pair rising over waves. The Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was consecrated in 1884.

The Jewish population in 1900 was 5,080. During World War II, Pruzhany was occupied by the Germans from 26 June 1941 to 17 July 1944. In 1941, the Nazis herded the Jews of Białystok and the vicinity here to create a ghetto. In Aktion roundups on 28-31 January 1943, the Nazis deported 10,000 Jews of the Pruzhany ghetto to Auschwitz, via Birkenau, where the men, women and children were murdered.

In 2003, the central part of the town was reconstructed to prepare the town for the national harvest festival “Dažynki” in autumn 2003.

Pruzhany is the birthplace of Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the Torah scholar and Jewish leader. Also, the American actor Mandy Patinkin descends from ancestors from Pruzhany (as well as the nearby shtetl of Drahichyn).

Raisa Žuk-Hryškievič, a prominent figure of the Belarusian diaspora, was born in Pruzhany in 1919.

The former Pruzhany (air base) is nearby.

Climate

| width = auto | collapsed = yes | metric first = yes | single line = yes | location = Pruzhany (1991–2020) | Jan record high C = 5.9 | Feb record high C = 8.2 | Mar record high C = 15.3 | Apr record high C = 23.2 | May record high C = 27.3 | Jun record high C = 30.2 | Jul record high C = 31.8 | Aug record high C = 31.7 | Sep record high C = 26.7 | Oct record high C = 20.7 | Nov record high C = 13.4 | Dec record high C = 7.2 | year record high C = 31.8

| Jan high C = -0.7 | Feb high C = 0.7 | Mar high C = 6.1 | Apr high C = 13.8 | May high C = 19.5 | Jun high C = 22.9 | Jul high C = 25.1 | Aug high C = 24.6 | Sep high C = 18.7 | Oct high C = 11.9 | Nov high C = 5.2 | Dec high C = 0.7 | year high C = 12.4

| Jan mean C = -3.1 | Feb mean C = -2.2 | Mar mean C = 1.8 | Apr mean C = 8.4 | May mean C = 13.8 | Jun mean C = 17.2 | Jul mean C = 19.3 | Aug mean C = 18.5 | Sep mean C = 13.2 | Oct mean C = 7.7 | Nov mean C = 2.7 | Dec mean C = -1.5 | year mean C = 8.0

| Jan low C = -5.7 | Feb low C = -5.2 | Mar low C = -2.0 | Apr low C = 3.0 | May low C = 7.7 | Jun low C = 11.1 | Jul low C = 13.3 | Aug low C = 12.5 | Sep low C = 8.3 | Oct low C = 3.9 | Nov low C = 0.2 | Dec low C = -3.9 | year low C = 3.6

| Jan record low C = -19.0 | Feb record low C = -16.7 | Mar record low C = -10.5 | Apr record low C = -3.5 | May record low C = 0.7 | Jun record low C = 4.9 | Jul record low C = 7.9 | Aug record low C = 6.2 | Sep record low C = 0.8 | Oct record low C = -3.9 | Nov record low C = -8.3 | Dec record low C = -14.6 | year record low C = -19.0

| precipitation colour = green | Jan precipitation mm = 34.6 | Feb precipitation mm = 31.9 | Mar precipitation mm = 33.4 | Apr precipitation mm = 36.8 | May precipitation mm = 62.0 | Jun precipitation mm = 61.9 | Jul precipitation mm = 87.4 | Aug precipitation mm = 59.2 | Sep precipitation mm = 56.7 | Oct precipitation mm = 42.3 | Nov precipitation mm = 38.2 | Dec precipitation mm = 38.4 | year precipitation mm = 582.8

| unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm | Jan precipitation days = 9.2 | Feb precipitation days = 8.7 | Mar precipitation days = 8.3 | Apr precipitation days = 7.5 | May precipitation days = 9.3 | Jun precipitation days = 9.1 | Jul precipitation days = 9.8 | Aug precipitation days = 7.3 | Sep precipitation days = 7.8 | Oct precipitation days = 8.1 | Nov precipitation days = 9.0 | Dec precipitation days = 9.4 | year precipitation days = 103.5

| source = NOAA{{cite web |url = https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/2.2/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Belarus/CSV/PRYZHANY_26929.csv |title = World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991-2020 — Pruzhany |publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |access-date = January 12, 2024}}

Gallery

File:Pruzhany river.jpg|One of the tourist attractions in today's Pruzhany is the landmark at the confluence of the Mukha River and the Vets Canal

Notes

References

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