Moskwin

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Moskwin

| settlement_type = Village

| image_skyline = Podlaskie - Wyszki - Moskwin 20110903.JPG

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Podlaskie

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Bielsk

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Wyszki

| pushpin_map = Poland

| coordinates = {{coord|52|50|N|22|54|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}

| elevation_m =

| population_total =

| timezone = CET

| utc_offset = +1

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset_DST = +2

| registration_plate = BBI

| blank_name_sec2 = Voivodeship road

| blank_info_sec2 = 32px

}}

Moskwin {{IPAc-pl|'|m|o|s|k|f|i|n}} is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wyszki, within Bielsk County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|6|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of Wyszki, {{convert|22|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of Bielsk Podlaski, and {{convert|37|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-west of the regional capital Białystok.

History

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).{{cite magazine|last1=Monkiewicz|first1=Waldemar|last2=Krętowski|first2=Józef|year=1986|title=Zbrodnie hitlerowskie na ludziach chorych i niepełnosprawnych|magazine=Białostocczyzna|language=pl|publisher=Białostockie Towarzystwo Naukowe|location=Białystok|issue=1|page=25}}

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