Kamyenyets District Explained

Kamyenyets District
Native Name:
Settlement Type:	District
Coordinates:	52.3889°N 23.8128°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Belarus
Subdivision Type1:	Region
Subdivision Name1:	Brest Region
Seat Type:	Administrative center
Seat:	Kamyenyets
Unit Pref:	Metric
Area Total Km2:	1,705.32
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population As Of:	2024
Population Total:	31,088
Population Urban:	13,200
Population Rural:	17,888
Population Density Km2:	auto
Utc Offset1:	+3

Kamyenyets District or Kamieniec District^[2] (Belarusian: Камянецкі раён; Russian: Каменецкий район) is a district (raion) of Brest Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Kamyenyets.^{[1] [3]} As of 2024, it has a population of 31,088.^[1]

Geography

The westernmost point of Belarus is situated in Kamyenyets District, a few kilometers southwest from Vysokaye on the Bug River.^[4]

Demographics

At the time of the 2009 Belarusian census, Kamyenyets District had a population of 39,143. Of these, 83.2% were of Belarusian, 7.4% Ukrainian, 6.7% Russian and 1.7% Polish ethnicity. 52.1% spoke Russian and 43.0% Belarusian as their native language. In 2023, it had a population of 31,476.^[5]

History

See main article: The Holocaust in the Kamyenyets District.

Notable residents

• Usievalad Ihnatoŭski (1881, Takary village - 1931), Belarusian politician, scholar and the first president of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus^[6]
• Romuald Traugutt (1826, Šastakova village – 1864), general and war hero best known for commanding the January Uprising of 1863^{[7] [8]}

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. Book: Gaponenko . Irina Olegovna . Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Брэсцкая вобласць . 2010 . Minsk . Тэхналогія . 160 . 978-985-458-198-9.
4. Web site: Main Geographic Characteristics of the Republic of Belarus . The Scientific and Production State Republican Unitary Enterprise “National Cadastre Agency” of the State Property Committee of the Republic of Belarus . 2011 . Land of Ancestors . 20 September 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053717/http://landofancestors.com/travel/statistics/geography/235-coordinates-of-the-extreme-points-of-the-state-frontier.html . 21 September 2013 . dead .
5. Web site: 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20230417144107/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/publications/izdania/public_bulletin/index_67469/. 17 April 2023. belsat.gov.by. 13 August 2023.
6. "Ihnatoŭski Ŭsievaład". www.slounik.org
7. https://www.tio.by/info/newspaper/18695/ Рамуальд Траўгут на Кобрыншчыне (Romuald Traugutt in the Kobryn area)
8. https://www.svaboda.org/a/765806.html Імёны Свабоды: Рамуальд Траўгу (The Names of Freedom: Romuald Traugutt)