Svetlahorsk
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Svetlahorsk (Belarusian: Сьветлаго́рск; Russian: Светлого́рск, also transliterated as Svetlogorsk) is a city in Homyel voblast, Belarus. It is located by river Berezina. Before the 1961 - a village Shatsilki. A railroad station on the Zhlobin-Kalinkavichy railway. About 60 000 inhabitants.
Industry
- Vasilevichskaya power plant
- chemicals man-made fiber plant
- reinforced concrete industrial complex
- some oil producing industry
- pulp and paper milk
- butter-making factory
- bakery
- an industrial college
Sights
- an orthodox church and a cathedral
- a catholic cathedral
- a quay
- a museum of local lorebe:Сьветлагорск