Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began. Lepiel was captured by the rapidly advancing German troops on 3 July. While the...

executed by Germans and Soviet collaborators during the war. They settled in Lepiel, a town in Soviet Belarus, and had two daughters, one in 1947, and the other...

Lyepyel District (Belarusian: Лепельскі раён; Russian: Лепельский район) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk Region, Belarus. The administrative center is...

and Russian film director and screenwriter. Vladimir Motyl was born in Lepiel, Belarus. His father was a Polish émigré, who was arrested in 1930 and sent...

Luninets P14: Polotsk – Dzisna – Myory – Braslaw P15: Krichev – Orsha – Lepiel; entrance to the city of Horki P16: Tyuhinichi – Vysokaye to the border...

Hubina (Belarusian: Губіна; Russian: Губино, romanized: Gubino) is a village in Lyepyel District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus. In the 19th century Hubina was...

Armed Forces of Belarus based in Zaslonovo [be], a few kilometers east of Lepiel. The brigade traces its history back to the 1942 formation of the 2nd Guards...

Military District as third echelon) Staging area in and around the city of Lepiel Transferred from the Kalinin Military District BT tanks 237 BT tanks 58...

Mechanized Corps of the Soviet 20th Army attacked with about 1,500 tanks near Lepiel. The result was a disaster, as the offensive ran directly into the anti-tank...

bases is the 19th, the former 19th Guards Tank Division at Zaslonovo in the Lepiel region. On October 1, 2003, the base was considerably strengthened. From...