Dzerzhinsky was born into a Polish noble family on an estate in Kojdanawa, in today's western Belarus, then a part of the Russian Empire. He joined the Bolshevik Party in 1917 and was appointed by Lenin to organize the first Soviet ...
the town kojdanava, which is not very far from the bestate/b, was renamed to bdzyarzhynsk/b. there is also a city of dzerzhinsk and three cities called dzerzhinskiy in russia and two cities in ukraine called dzerzhinsk. ...
