Rasony district

Rasony district (; ) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk region in Belarus. The administrative center of the district is Rasony.

Lake Neshcharda, the seventh-largest lake in Belarus, is situated in the district.

History

During World War II, Rasony District was a large part of the Belarusian partisans. Led by Pyotr Masherov, the partisan movement in Rasony began in 1941, and continued until Operation Bagration liberated Belarus from Nazi Germany in 1944.

Notable residents

• Jan Barszczewski (1797, Mirahi village – 1851), "one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature"
• Hienadz Buraǔkin (1936, Å ulacina village – 2014), Belarusian poet, journalist and diplomat

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