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Rasony District (Belarusian: Расонскі раён; Russian: Россонский район) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk Region in Belarus.[2] The administrative center of the district is Rasony.[1]

Lake Neshcharda, the seventh-largest lake in Belarus, is situated in the district.[3]

History

During World War II, Rasony District was a large part of the Belarusian partisans. Led by Pyotr Masherov, the partisan movement in Rasony began in 1941, and continued until Operation Bagration liberated Belarus from Nazi Germany in 1944.[4]

Notable residents

  • Jan Barszczewski (1797, Mirahi village – 1851), "one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature"[5]
  • Hienadz Buraǔkin (1936, Šulacina village – 2014), Belarusian poet, journalist and diplomat[6]

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