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Hrodna

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Hrodna

Industrial city and port in Belarus, on the Nyoman (Neman) River, capital of an oblast (Belorussian voblasts) of the same name; population (1991) 284,800. The city lies some 230 km/143 mi west of Minsk, near the Belorussian borders with Poland and Lithuania. Industries include chemical and textile manufacture, and sugar-refining.

Hrodna was founded in the 10th century. It was part of Lithuania from 1376, passed to Poland in 1596, to Russia in 1795, and reverted to Poland in 1920. The USSR annexed it after the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 divided up eastern Europe. The city has many architectural monuments dating from the 12th-18th centuries, including the palace of former Polish king Stefan Bathory and several former Catholic monasteries and churches.
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