Mahilyow

Mahilyow, voblasts (province), east-central Belarus, in the middle Dnieper River lowland. The Dnieper bisects it north-south. It consists of a level plain of loesslike deposits, sloping gently southward from the rolling morainic hills of the Orsha and Smolensk uplands in the north. Much of the province is in mixed forest of pine, spruce, oak, and birch; areas of reed and grass marsh and peat bog are extensive. Communities, other than Mahilyow and Babruysk, are small...