Myadzyel District Explained

Type:	District
Myadzyel District
Native Name:
Native Name Lang:	be
Flag Size:	150
Seat Type:	Administrative center
Seat:	Myadzyel
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Belarus
Subdivision Type1:	Region
Subdivision Name1:	Minsk Region
Area Total Km2:	1,967
Population Total:	24,326
Population Urban:	12,846
Population Rural:	11,480
Population As Of:	2024
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Leader Title:	ispolkom chairman
Timezone:	MSK
Utc Offset:	+3
Website:	Myadzyel ispolkom website

Myadzyel District or Miadziel District^[2] (Belarusian: Мядзельскі раён|Miadzielski rajon; Russian: Мядельский район) is a district (raion) of Minsk Region in Belarus.^[1] Its administrative center is the town of Myadzyel.^[3] ^[1] As of 2024, it has a population of 24,326.^[1]

Four of the main lakes of Belarus are situated in this district: Narach (the largest one), Svir (8th largest), Myadel (11th largest) and Myastro (15th largest).^[4]

Notable residents

Maksim Tank (1912–1995), journalist, poet and translator
Dr. Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič (1903–1989), Belarusian emigre politician, President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic between 1971 and 1982^[5]

Notes and References

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. 12 June 2024.
Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
http://www.minsk-region.gov.by/index.aspx?id=29 Myadzel raion page
Web site: Main characteristics of the largest lakes of Belarus . Data of the Research Laboratory for Lake Study of the Belarus State University. . 2011 . Land of Ancestors . 29 September 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130929085748/http://landofancestors.com/travel/statistics/geography/238-main-characteristics-of-the-largest-lakes-of-belarus.html . 29 September 2013 . dead .
Жыцьцё Вінцэнта Жук-Грышкевіча [The Life of Vincent Zuk-Hryskievic], by Raisa Zuk-Hryskievic, Toronto, 1993, p. 69