Belarus / Ukrainian-Russian Border / Vitebsk

Old Synagogue of Vitebsk

Practical info

Type of location: Closed synagogue

Old Synagogue of Vitebsk

Revaliucyjnaja vulica 10, Viciebsk

Historical description

Vitebsk

In northern Belarus, on the road to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Vitebsk symbolizes all the Jewish shtetlach of Russia immortalized in the work of Marc Chagall, who was born here in 1887 and lived here until 1907, and again from 1917 to 1919. In the era of ... Read more