Petrovichi () is a rural locality (a village) in Shumyachsky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, southwest of Moscow, south of St Petersburg, south of Smolensk, and east of the border between Belarus and Russia. Its population in 1998 was 215.
The village is the birthplace of Isaac Asimov. Asimov left it at the age of three, with his parents and sister, emigrating to the United States.
In July 1941, Petrovichi was occupied by the German armies. 416 Jewish inhabitants who did not flee in time were massacred.
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- Photo of monument to Asimov at Asimovonline.com
- Russian news article (2011) at Google Translate
- Russian news article (2015) at Google Translate