Liozna

For other uses, see Lozna (disambiguation). For the Hasidic group Liozna-Chabad, see Shaul Shimon Deutsch.

Liozna (Belarusian: Лёзна, Polish: Łoźna, Russian: Лиозно) is an urban type settlement in Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus, the capital of Liozna Raion. It is located close to the border with Russia by the Vitsebsk-Smolensk railroad branch and highway, on the Moshna River. Population: 6,753 (2005)

The first known record of the Liozno shtetl (small town with a high Jewish population) is dated by 1654.

Notable people associated with Liozna

Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter
Schneur Zalman, the first Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty
Dovber Schneuri, the second Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the third Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty

Subdivisions of Vitebsk Region, Belarus

Districts (raiony)	Beshankovichy Braslaw Chashniki Dokshytsy Dubrowna Haradok Hlybokaye Lepiel Liozna Myory Orsha Pastavy Polatsk Rasony Sharkawshchyna Shumilina Syanno Talachyn Ushachy Vitebsk Verkhnyadzvinsk

Cities	Baran Beshankovichy Braslaw Chashniki Dzisna Dokshytsy Dubroŭna Haradok Hlybokaye Lepiel Liozna Myory Navapolatsk Novalukoml Orsha Pastavy Polotsk Syanno Talachyn Vitebsk Verkhnyadzvinsk

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