Vileyka District

Vileyka District Вілейскі раён (Belarusian) Вилейский район (Russian)
District
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Coordinates: 54°29′N 26°55′E
Country	Belarus
Region	Minsk Region
Administrative center	Vileyka
Area
• District	2,453 km^2 (947 sq mi)
Population  (2024)[1]
• District	46,075
• Density	19/km^2 (49/sq mi)
• Urban	26,625
• Rural	19,450
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)

Vileyka District or Viliejka District^[2] (Belarusian: Вілейскі раён; Russian: Вилейский район) is a district (raion) of Minsk Region in Belarus. The administrative center of the district is the town of Vileyka.^[1] As of 2024, it has a population of 46,075.^[1]

Notable residents

• Janka Filistovič (1926, Paniacičy village – 1953), active participant in the Belarusian independence movement and a member of the underground anti-Soviet resistance in Belarus in the 1950s.^[3]
• Piotra Sych (1912, Baturyna village – 1963) - Belarusian writer and journalist, a Gulag prisoner^[4]

References

1. "Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
2. Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
3. Арлоў, Уладзімер (2020). ІМЁНЫ СВАБОДЫ (Бібліятэка Свабоды. ХХІ стагодзьдзе.) [Uładzimir Arłou. The Names of Freedom (The Library of Freedom. ХХІ century.)] (PDF) (in Belarusian) (4-е выд., дап. ed.). Радыё Свабодная Эўропа / Радыё Свабода - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. pp. 244–245.
4. Пётра Сыч (Piotra Sych) (in Belarusian)