Syanno district

Syanno district (; ) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Syanno.

Notable residents

• Zair Azgur (1908, Maǔčany village – 1995), Belarusian sculptor
• Pyotr Masherov (1919, Å yrki village – 1980), Soviet partisan in World War II and leader of Soviet Belarus between 1965 – 1980
• Lavon RydleÅ­ski (1903, Uljanavičy village - 1953), active participant in the Belarusian independence movement and an anti-Soviet resistance and a prominent member of the Belarusian diaspora.

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