Kobryn

Kobryn (Belarusian: Кобрын; Polish: Kobryń; Ukrainian: Кобринь; Yiddish: קאָברין) or Kobrin (Russian: Кобрин), is a town in Brest Region, Belarus.

Catherine II gave Kobryn to Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov for his war merits, especially for the suppression of the Polish Kościuszko Uprising.

After the unsuccessful January Uprising anti-Polish repressions intensified: estates were confiscated, insurgents and landowners were deported to Siberia (see: sybirak) and a ban on land acquisition by ethnic Poles was introduced.

[2] Kobryn was occupied by Germany during World War I. Kobryń came under Polish control in February 1919,[5] four months after the reestablishment of independent Poland.

[2] In 1923, the State Gymnasium was founded, which three years later received the name of Maria Rodziewiczówna, a Polish writer living nearby, who co-financed the construction of the school.

From 23 June 1941 until 20 July 1944, Kobryn was occupied by Nazi Germany and administered as a part of the Generalbezirk Wolhynien-Podolien of Reichskommissariat Ukraine.

Among the historical monuments of the city are the Catholic Church of the Dormition, Baroque Monastery of the Transfiguration, a park founded by Antoni Tyzenhauz in 1768, the Orthodox church of St. Alexander Nevsky, the building of the pre-war Polish Maria Rodziewiczówna State Gymnasium, the building of the pre-war town hall and the Catholic cemetery, where the family of the Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz is buried.

Historic coat of arms of Kobryn
Interwar monument of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Kobryn
Kobryn during the occupation of Poland