Polotsk
Polotsk is a city in Belarus, in Vitebsk Oblast. First mentioned in 862, it is the oldest city in Belarus. Now it is a city of local importance with 83,000 inhabitants and with considerable architectural heritage from the times of old Rus and later periods.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Belarus2578, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 80,800 residents
- Description: city in Belarus
- Also known as: “Podolsk”, “Polack”, “Połack”, “Polatsak”, “Polatsk”, “Polazak”, “Polazk”, “Połock”, “Polockas”, “Polozk”, and “Potolsk”
- Address: Полацкі раён
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boris stone and Saint Sophia Cathedral.
Boris stone
Stone
Boris Stones, also called Dvina Stones, are seven medieval artifacts erected along the bank of the Western Dvina between Polotsk and Drissa, Belarus. They probably predate Christianity in the area, but were inscribed in the 12th century with text and an image of Christ.
Saint Sophia Cathedral
Church
Photo: Vasilii Martynov, CC BY 4.0.
The Cathedral of Holy Wisdom was a cathedral in Polotsk that was built by Prince Vseslav Briacheslavich between 1044 and 1066. It stands at the confluence of the Polota River and the Western Dvina River on the eastern side of the city and is probably the oldest church in Belarus.
Lutheran church in Polack
Museum
Photo: Kamelot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lutheran church in Polack is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ekimań 2 and Ekiman‘.
Polotsk
- Categories: city of oblast subordinance, city of raion subordinance, and locality
- Location: Vitebsk Region, Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.4855° or 55° 29′ 8″ northLongitude
28.7682° or 28° 46′ 6″ eastPopulation
80,800Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)United Nations Location Code
BY POKOpen location code
9G7CFQP9+57OpenStreetMap ID
node 119310785OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Polotsk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Polack”
- Afrikaans: “Polatsk”
- Arabic: “بولوتسك”
- Armenian: “Պոլոցկ”
- Azerbaijani: “Polack”
- Azerbaijani: “Polotsk”
- Basque: “Polack”
- Basque: “Polatsk”
- Basque: “Polotsk”
- Belarusian: “Полацак”
- Belarusian: “Полацк”
- Bengali: “পোলোস্ক”
- Breton: “Polatsk”
- Bulgarian: “Полоцк”
- Catalan: “Polack”
- Catalan: “Pòlatsk”
- Catalan: “Pólotsk”
- Cebuano: “Polack”
- Chechen: “Полоцк”
- Chinese: “波拉茨克”
- Chinese: “波洛茨克”
- Church Slavic: “По́лотєскъ”
- Church Slavic: “Полотьскъ”
- Church Slavic: “По́лотьскъ”
- Chuvash: “Полоцк”
- Croatian: “Polack”
- Croatian: “Polatsk”
- Croatian: “Polock”
- Croatian: “Polotsk”
- Czech: “Polack”
- Czech: “Polock”
- Danish: “Polack”
- Danish: “Polatsk”
- Danish: “Polotsk”
- Danish: “Полацк”
- Danish: “По́лацк”
- Dutch: “Polack”
- Dutch: “Polatsk”
- Eastern Mari: “Полоцк”
- Esperanto: “Polack”
- Esperanto: “Polock”
- Estonian: “Połack”
- Estonian: “Polatsk”
- Estonian: “Polotsk”
- Finnish: “Polack”
- Finnish: “Polatsk”
- Finnish: “Polotsk”
- French: “Polack”
- French: “Polatsk”
- French: “Polotsk”
- Galician: “Polack”
- Georgian: “პოლოცკი”
- German: “Plotzkow”
- German: “Polack”
- German: “Polazak”
- German: “Polazk”
- German: “Połock”
- Greek: “Πόλοτσκ”
- Gujarati: “પોલોત્સક”
- Hebrew: “פולאצק”
- Hindi: “पोलट्स्क”
- Hungarian: “Polack”
- Indonesian: “Polotsk”
- Irish: “Polack”
- Italian: “Polack”
- Italian: “Polatsk”
- Italian: “Polazk”
- Italian: “Polock”
- Italian: “Polotsk”
- Italian: “Polozk”
- Japanese: “ポラツク”
- Japanese: “ポロツク”
- Kannada: “ಪೋಲೊಟ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “폴라츠크”
- Korean: “폴로츠크”
- Latin: “Peltiscum”
- Latin: “Polatsk”
- Latin: “Polocia”
- Latin: “Polocium”
- Latin: “Polotia”
- Latin: “Polotium”
- Latin: “Polotsk”
- Latvian: “Polacka”
- Latvian: “Polocka”
- Lithuanian: “Polackas”
- Lithuanian: “Polockas”
- Low German: “Polazk”
- Malay: “Polotsk”
- Marathi: “पोलोस्क”
- Northern Frisian: “Polatsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Polatsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Polotsk”
- Norwegian: “Polatsk”
- Ossetian: “Полоцк”
- Persian: “پولوتسک”
- Polish: “Połock”
- Portuguese: “Polatsk”
- Portuguese: “Połock”
- Portuguese: “Polotsk”
- Romanian: “Polack”
- Romanian: “Polațk”
- Romanian: “Poloțk”
- Romanian: “Polotsk”
- Russian: “Полотеск”
- Russian: “Полоцк”
- Scots: “Polotsk”
- Serbian: “Polack”
- Serbian: “Полацк”
- Serbian: “По́лацк”
- Serbian: “Полоцк”
- Serbian: “По́лоцк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Polack”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Polock”
- Sinhala: “පොලොට්ස්ක්”
- Slovenian: “Polacak”
- Slovenian: “Polack”
- Slovenian: “Polock”
- Spanish: “Polack”
- Spanish: “Polatsk”
- Spanish: “Pólatsk”
- Spanish: “Polotsk”
- Spanish: “Pólotsk”
- Swahili: “Polotsk”
- Swedish: “Paltejsborg”
- Swedish: “Paltejsk”
- Swedish: “Polack”
- Swedish: “Polatsk”
- Swedish: “Polatzk”
- Swedish: “Polotsk”
- Swedish: “Polotzk”
- Tahitian: “Polatsk”
- Tamil: “போலாட்ஸ்க்”
- Tatar: “Полатск”
- Tatar: “Полоцк”
- Telugu: “పోలాస్క్”
- Thai: “โปลอตสค์”
- Turkish: “Polotsk”
- Ukrainian: “Полацьк”
- Ukrainian: “Полоцьк”
- Upper Sorbian: “Polack”
- Upper Sorbian: “Polock”
- Urdu: “پولوتسک”
- Vietnamese: “Polotsk”
- Welsh: “Polack”
- Welsh: “Polotsk”
- Western Frisian: “Polatsk”
- Yiddish: “Polotsk”
- Yiddish: “פּאָלאָצק”
- “Polack”
- “Полацк”
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