District of Vitebsk Region, Belarus
District in Vitebsk Region, Belarus
Chashniki District or Čašniki District
[2] (
Belarusian : Чашніцкі раён ;
Russian : Чашникский район ) is a
district (
raion ) of
Vitebsk Region in
Belarus .
[3] Its administrative center is
Chashniki .
[1]
Lake Lukomlskoye , the fourth largest lake in the country is situated here.
[4] The
Vula River flows through this district.
Notable residents
Wasyl Ciapiński (c. 1430/1540s, Ciapina village – c. 1599/1600), Belarusian-Lithuanian noble, humanist, educator, writer, publisher and translator from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania known for translating the Bible into the Belarusian language
[5]
Uladzimyer Prakulevich (1887, Krasnaluki village – 1938), Belarusian politician, writer and lawyer, victim of
Stalin’s purges
[6]
[7]
References
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"Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа" . belsat.gov.by . Archived from
the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023 .
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official transliteration
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"Vitebsk Region" (in Belarusian). vitebsk-region.gov.by. Retrieved 2015-10-06 .
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"Main characteristics of the largest lakes of Belarus" . Land of Ancestors . Data of the Research Laboratory for Lake Study of the Belarus State University. 2011. Archived from
the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013 .
^ Васіль Цяпінскі (
1530-я ці пач. 1540-х гг., Полаччына – 1599 ці 1600), гуманіст-асветнік, пісьменнік, кнігавыдавец, прадаўжальнік гуманістычных і культурна-асветніцкіх традыцый Ф. Скарыны (Wasyl Ciapiński(1530s or early 1540s, Poland - 1599 or 1600), humanist-educator, writer, publisher, successor of humanistic and cultural-educational traditions of F. Skaryna (in Belarusian)
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Today is Slutsk uprising Day
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ПРАКУЛЕВІЧ Уладзімір Міхайлавіч (Prakulevich Uladzimir Mikhaylavich) (in Belarusian)