Hlybokaye or Glubokoye is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus, the capital of Hlybokaye Raion . The city is located on the international road from Polotsk to Vilnius with the historic railway line to Woropajewo completed in 1932 in the interwar Poland . It has 18,200 inhabitants as of 2010.Within the city limits there are two smaller lakes: Kahalnaye and Grand from which the Birchwood river originates . The first written records about the settlement date back to 1514. During World War II in occupied Poland the town's district of Berezwecz was the location of a massacre of up to 2,000–3,000 Polish prisoners by the Soviet NKVD secret police. As late as 2...
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