The Smolensk region has taken in 470 Meskhetian families, including the Germanoves, adding 2,126 people to the local population of just over 1.1 million.

A Kiev metropolitan (1147-1154) and church figure from the Smolensk region (from which his surname is derived), Belarus.

A graduate of the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (1936-1941), was a rural teacher in the Smolensk region.

Belarus was to extend east to include the Smolensk region.

Following the October Revolution, in March 1918 he joined the Bolshevik cause and was immediately appointed as the military commander of the Smolensk region.

After its completion the division regrouped in the Smolensk region, where further training took place.

Russia accepted Polish-Lithuanian control, which lasted for another 20 years, over the Smolensk region.

The desperate Soviet defense of the Smolensk region lasted for two months, from 10 July-10 September 1941.

Gediminas' rule stretched up to the eastern Smolensk region, southern Polesia and temporarily Kiev.

Lev's family moved to Russia's Smolensk region there he began sculpting as a child.