Shtetls

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© Moshe Hemain
 About Shtetl
A map of Jewish population in Russian Empire in 1897
Jewish communities in Russian Empire
Listed in alphabetical order by provinces names
A province current country affiliation is shown in parentheses
   Bessarabia  (Moldova)
      Chernigov (Ukraine)
   Ekaterinoslav (Ukraine)
       Grodno (Belarus)
   Kharkov (Ukraine)
   Kherson (Ukraine)
   Kiev (Ukraine)
   Kovno (Lithuania)
       Minsk (Belarus)
   Mogilev (Belarus)
   Podolia (Ukraine)
   Poltava (Ukraine)
        Vilna (Lithuania and Belarus)
   Vitebsk (Belarus, Latvia, and Russian Federation)
   Volhynia (Ukraine)
The history of more than hundred Jewish communities in Ukraine:
Selected list of shtetls of Ukraine (web site "myShtetl")
Additional sources:
List of towns and villages  in European part of Russia in 1897  (in Russian)
Jewish cemeteries
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