Hlybokaye district

Hlybokaye district or Hlybokaje district (; ) is a district (raion) in Vitebsk region, Belarus. The administrative center of the district is the town of Hlybokaye.

Notable residents

• Ihnat Bujnicki (1881, Palivačy estate - 1917), Belarusian actor and theatre director, described as “the father of the Belarusian theatre”
• Jazep Drazdovič (1888, Puńki village –1954), Belarusian painter, archaeologist, and ethnographer
• Vaclau Lastouski (1883, Kalesniki hamlet – 1938), Belarusian critic, historian of literature, and politician, victim of Stalin's purges

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