Petrovichi
Sign in to savePetrovichi () is a rural locality (a village) in Shumyachsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located about southwest of Moscow, south of St Petersburg, south of Smolensk, and east of the border between Belarus and Russia. Its population in 1998 was 215.
Key facts
- Russian town.pushpin_map
- Russia Smolensk Oblast#European Russia#Russia
- Russian town.federal_subject
- Smolensk Oblast
- Russian town.postal_codes
- 216430
- Russian town.en_name
- Petrovichi
- Russian town.ru_name
- Петро́вичи
- Russian town.inhabloc_cat
- Selo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hamlet
- Country
- Tsardom of Russia
- Located in
- Shumyachsky District
- Population
- 265
- Area
- 1.25
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Dialing code
- +7 48133
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- postal code
- 216430
- time of earliest written record
- 1403-00-00
- inception
- 1403-00-00
- native label
- Петровичи
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Encyclopedic overview
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Petrovichi () is a rural locality (a village) in Shumyachsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located about southwest of Moscow, south of St Petersburg, south of Smolensk, and east of the border between Belarus and Russia. Its population in 1998 was 215.
The village is the birthplace of Isaac Asimov. Asimov left it at the age of three, with his parents and sister, emigrating to the United States. There is a stone memorial at the site of his birth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Petrovichi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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