Ashmyany District Explained

Official Name:	Ashmyany District
Native Name:
Flag Size:	150
Settlement Type:	District
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Belarus
Subdivision Type1:	Region
Subdivision Name1:	Grodno Region
Seat Type:	Administrative center
Seat:	Ashmyany
Area Total Km2:	1,215.92
Population As Of:	2024
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Total:	29,133
Population Urban:	16,787
Population Rural:	12,346
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone:	MSK
Utc Offset:	+3

Ashmyany District or Ašmiany District^[2] (Belarusian: Ашмянскі раён|Ashmyanski rajon; Russian: Ошмянский район|Oshmyansky rayon) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus. The administrative center is Ashmyany.^[1] As of 2024, it has a population of 29,133.^[1]

Notable residents

• Jazep Hermanovich (1890, Halshany – 1978), Belarusian Eastern Catholic priest, writer, poet and Gulag survivor^[3]
• Zygmunt Mineyko (1840, Zialony Bor – 1925), a leading figure of the January Uprising on the territory of Belarus ^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20240402055418/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/. 2 April 2024. belsat.gov.by. 13 May 2024.
2. Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
3. https://media.catholic.by/nv/n2/art9.htm ЯЗЭП ГЕРМАНОВІЧ – СВЯТАР І ПІСЬМЕННІК (Jazep Hermanovich - Priest and Writer
4. https://www.svaboda.org/a/767649.html Імёны Свабоды: Зыгмунт Мінейка (1840 – 27.12.1925) (The Names of Freedom: Zygmunt Mineyko (1840- 27.1#.1925)