Kirawsk District Explained

Official Name:	Kirawsk District
Native Name:
Flag Size:	150
Settlement Type:	District
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Belarus
Subdivision Type1:	Region
Subdivision Name1:	Mogilev Region
Seat Type:	Administrative center
Seat:	Kirawsk
Area Total Km2:	1295.20
Population As Of:	2023
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Total:	17,235
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone:	MSK
Utc Offset:	+3

Kirawsk District or Kiraŭsk District^[2] (be|Кіраўскі раён; ru|Кировский район|Kirovsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Mogilev Region in Belarus. The administrative center is the town of Kirawsk.^[3] As of 2009, its population was 22,352. The population of Kirawsk accounts for 39.2% of the district's population.^[4]

Two major Belarusian automobile roads pass through the raion: P93 and M5 (European route E271).^[3]

Notable residents

• Jadvihin Š. (Anton Lavicki) (1869, Dobasnia – 1922), Belarusian novelist, playwright and publicist

References

53.2686°N 29.4736°W

Notes and References

1. 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. 5 August 2023.
2. Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
3. http://region.mogilev.by/ru/node/8483 Kirawsk Raion website
4. Web site: http://belstat.gov.by/homep/ru/perepic/2009/vihod_tables/1.2-7.pdf . ru:Численность населения областей и районов: Могилевская . Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь . Russian . 13 March 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100918181854/http://belstat.gov.by/homep/ru/perepic/2009/vihod_tables/1.2-7.pdf . 18 September 2010 .