In article <[email protected]>, "Kay Diroff" <[email protected]> wrote: >Is Mogilev a province or a city in Belarus? Researching the surname >Zjukovskij from Byelorussia, Mogilev during the middle and late 19th >century. Pat Mogilev in Russian but Mahilou (pronounced Mahilow) in Belarusian is a city with nearly 400,000 inhabitants in the voblast (province) of Mahilou - about 1.2 million inhabitants - in eastern Belarus' abutting the Russian Federation. A Belarusian in America <http://www.netcom.com/~homan/bielarus.html>