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Svetlahorsk

Svetlahorsk (Svetlogorsk in Russian translation) 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 heat 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 colledge.

Sights: an orthodox church and a cathedral; a catholic cathedral, a quay, a museum of local lore.