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Locality Poděbrady, Nymburk District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

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  • Oksana Sokovitch (1900 - bef.1990)
    Oksana Sokovyč (23.01.1900), the daughter of Jevhen Sokovyč, an assistant professor [docent] of melioration and railways at the Ukrainian Academy of Technology and Husbandry in Poděbrady. She was then...
  • Eugene Sokovitch (1864 - 1946)
    SOKOVYCH (Sakovych) Yevhen Oleksandrovych (1864-1946) - political figure. He was a railway engineer by profession. Member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries. From November 29, 1917, h...
  • Leon Sokovitch (aft.1901 - bef.1990)
    однофамилец ? Тут рождение Харциск ЛИНК ст. 153 С о к о в и ч Леонід (21. X. 1901, Харциск, Харківщина). 1927.

Poděbrady (German: Podiebrad) is a spa town in Nymburk District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 15,000 inhabitants. It lies on the river Elbe. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.

Notable people
George of Poděbrady (1420–1471), King of Bohemia
Kunigunde of Sternberg (1425–1449), wife of George of Poděbrady; buried here
Ludvík Kuba (1853–1956), painter, musician and writer
Jan Trampota (1889–1942), painter; died here
Josef and Ctirad Mašín, resistance fighters; attended a high school here
Miloš Forman (1932–2018), filmmaker
Václav Havel (1936–2011), first president of the Czech Republic
Hans Janowitz (1890–1954), German author
Marta Kubišová (born 1942), singer and signatory to Charter 77

Подебрады
Подебра́ды, По́дебради (чеш. Poděbrady, старое нем. Podiebrad) — курортный город в Чехии в Полабской низменности на берегу реки Эльбы, в 50 км от Праги (30 мин на авто по магистрали D11). Муниципалитет с расширенными полномочиями. Знаменит Подебрадским замком и своими минеральными источниками.