Dobrush District Explained

Dobrush District
Native Name:
Settlement Type:	District
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Belarus
Subdivision Type1:	Region
Subdivision Name1:	Gomel Region
Seat Type:	Administrative center
Seat:	Dobrush
Area Total Km2:	1452.72
Population As Of:	2024
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Total:	34,735
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone:	MSK
Utc Offset:	+3
Coordinates:	52.4167°N 50°W
Postal Code Type:	Postal code
Postal Code:	247050
Area Code:	+375 2333
Blank Name:	License plate
Blank Info:	3

Dobrush District or Dobruš District^[2] (Belarusian: Добрушскі раён|Dobrušski rajon; Russian: Добрушский район) is a district (raion) of Gomel Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Dobrush.^[1] As of 2024, it has a population of 34,735.^[1]

The uninhabited Russian exclave Sankovo-Medvezhye is situated in the district.^[3]

Administrative divisions

The Dobrush District is divided into 14 village council regions (Selsovets).

• Borschovsky
• Ivakovsky
• Kormyansky
• Krugovets-Kalininsky
• Krupetsky
• Kuzminichsky
• Leninist
• Nosovichsky
• Pererostovsky
• Rassvetovsky
• Terekhovsky
• Usoho-Budsky
• Utevsky
• Zhgunsky

Notable residents

• Cimoch Vostrykaǔ (in Belarusian Цімох Вострыкаў) (1922, Barščoŭka village - 2007), member of the anti-Soviet resistance, representative of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, a Gulag prisoner ^{[4] [5]}

External links

• Official site of regional executive committee

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. 6 May 2024.
2. Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
3. The Atlas of Unusual Borders by Zoran Nikolič. ISBN 978-0-00-835177-9.p. 48
4. https://www.svaboda.org/a/29841207.html Цімох Вострыкаў — чалавек, якога не зламалі 23 гады савецкіх лягераў (Cimoch Vostrykaǔ - the man who was not broken by 23 years of Soviet prison camps)
5. https://www.radabnr.org/cimoch-vostrykau/ Цімох Вострыкаў (Cimoch Vostrykaǔ)