Orsha | city, third-level administrative division, district center

Belarus / Vicebsk / Orsha /
 city, third-level administrative division, district center
A city in Belarus in the Vitebsk Region, on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers.
Today, Orsha is a major railway node where the Minsk–Moscow crosses the northern Vitebsk line, which branches south to Mogilev and Krychaw. All trains from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg bound for Western Europe pass through Orsha. The city is also a junction of the important motorways: The M1 (E30) Moscow-Brest and the M8/M20 (E95) Saint Petersburg — Odessa.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orsha
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Coordinates:   54°30'46"N   30°23'58"E