tributary of the sozh, flows along smolensk and bryansk regions in russia, mogilev and gomel in belarus, dobryshstay here or move on. and then the elder said, looking at the beautiful local landscapes. "dobrosh" and spread out his arms to the river. and the way. since then , the place they chose to live began to be called dobruzh, and the river, which served as a road and provided food and path. this is the story of little belarusian venice. another interesting fact: in dobrush there are 13 bridges per 2.0 km for almost 19,000 inhabitants. and this is only within the city limits. the lands of the modern territory of the dobruzhsky district were once inhabited by the radimichs. in the 9th-10th centuries , the historical fate of this region was closely connected with gomel. at that time it was part of the gomel volost, which in its the turn was part of the chernigov principality. in 1355 it was part of the grand duchy of lithuania. for the first time in chronicle sources, dobruzh was mentioned in 1560 as a village of rechesky povet. after 9 years, the city became part of the polish-lithuanian comm