Moskwin | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Bielsk |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Wyszki |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 52.8333°N 76°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | BBI |
Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship road |
Moskwin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wyszki, within Bielsk County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 6km (04miles) west of Wyszki, 220NaN0 west of Bielsk Podlaski, and 370NaN0 south-west of the regional capital Białystok.
During the German invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, on September 14, 1939, German troops of the 3rd Panzer Division carried out a massacre of nine local Poles, including one deaf-mute man and one intellectually disabled man (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[2]