BOBRUISK, a town and district in the White Russian Socialist Soviet Republic on the right bank of the Berezina river and on the railway between Minsk and Gomel. Lat. 53° 1o' N., Long. 12' E. Pop. (1933) 64,800, mainly White Russians and Jews. It is a centre for corn and timber products and has iron works and flour mills and a radio-station. The town was fortified by Alexander I. and withstood Napoleon's bombardment in 1812, and was further fortified by Nicholas I., but dismantled 1897. It suffered from fire in 1902 and from its position in the war zone 1914-21.