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
^ a b "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 .
^ official transliteration
^ "Vitebsk Region" (in Belarusian). vitebsk-region.gov.by. Retrieved 2015-10-06 .
^ "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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^ ПРАКУЛЕВІЧ Уладзімір Міхайлавіч (Prakulevich Uladzimir Mikhaylavich) (in Belarusian)