Bykhov city and Bykhov Castle in Belarus.

Coat of arms of the city of Bykhov.

The first mentions of Bykhov date back to the XIV century.

The history of Belarus is dramatic: battles, divisions of territories, sieges ... Old buildings, peers, and witnesses of these events, are located not only in large cities but also in very small settlements. 

One of these towns that keep the memory of the past is Bykhov.

Bobruisk is a city of regional subordination, the second largest population in the Mogilev region, the center of the Bobruisk district.

Coat of arms of the city of Bobruisk.

Geographical location: Bobruisk and Bobruisk district are located in the southwestern part of the Mogilev region, the distance to the regional center is 110 km, 150 km from Minsk. 

It borders with Rogachev, Svetlogorsk, Zhlobin districts of the Gomel region, Glussky, Osipovichsky, Kirov districts of the Mogilev region.

Relief: semi-closed plain (Central Berezinsky), weakly hilly in places, rugged by a dense network of rivers and drainage channels, average height - 165 m above sea level.

History of Bobruisk fortress in Belarus.

Bobruisk fortress

In 1810, Emperor Alexander I approved Bobruisk as the site of the construction of one of the strongholds in the line of defense of the western borders of the Russian Empire.

The original plan of fortifications on the site of the ancient castle of the fourteenth and

Over its history, Mogilev has repeatedly turned out to be an important strategic point on the map of Belarus.

Coat of arms of the city of Mogilev

Оn the eve of World War II, the city almost became the capital of Belarus due to the dangerous proximity of Minsk to the western border. 

During the First World War, here was the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and the residence of Emperor Nicholas II.

The House of Soviets erected in a short time reminds of those times - an almost exact copy of the Minsk Government House. 

One of the most striking pages of the history of Mogilev was the heroic defense at the beginning of World War II, when the city lasted 23 days, 16 of them in the complete encirclement.