Klichaw District or Kličaŭ District[2] (Belarusian: Клічаўскі раён; Russian: Кличевский район, romanized: Klichevsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Mogilev Region in Belarus. The administrative center is Klichaw. As of 2009, its population was 17,246. The population of Klichaw accounts for 43.6% of the district's population.[3]
Klichaw District
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| Country | Belarus |
| Region | Mogilev Region |
| Administrative center | Klichaw |
| Area | |
• Total | 180,032 km2 (69,511 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[1] | |
• Total | 13,890 |
| • Density | 0.077/km2 (0.20/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK) |
Notable residents
edit- Ignacy Hryniewiecki (1855, Basin hamlet (now Kalinaǔka village) - 1881), member of the revolutionary society Narodnaya Volya who assassinated Tsar Alexander II of Russia[4]
- Arkadź Smolič (1891, Bacevičy village - 1938), Belarusian academic, active participant of the Belarusian independence movement and a victim of Stalin's purges [5]
References
edit- ^ "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". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- ^ Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
- ^ Численность населения областей и районов: Могилевская (PDF) (in Russian). Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
- ^ Імёны Свабоды: Ігнат Грынявіцкі (the Names of Freedom: Ignacy Hryniewiecki)(in Belarusian)
- ^ Smolič Arkadź
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