Shchadryn

Shchadryn
Шчадрын (Belarusian)
Щедрин (Russian)
Shchedrin
Agrotown
Monument to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Shchedrin
Shchadryn
Coordinates: 52°49′54″N 29°33′02″E / 52.83167°N 29.55056°E / 52.83167; 29.55056
CountryBelarus
RegionGomel Region
DistrictZhlobin District
Founded1846
Population
 (1926)
 • Total
1,759

Shchadryn or Shchedrin (Belarusian: Шчадрын, romanized: Ščadryn; Russian: Щедрин; Yiddish: שצעדרין) is an agrotown in Zhlobin District, Gomel Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Shchadryn selsoviet.

Before the Holocaust, the settlement functioned as a shtetl and was home to members of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Hasidic Judaism.

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