Klichaw District
Klichaw District (Belarusian: Клічаўскі раён, Russian: Кличевский район, Klichevsky raion) is a raion (district) in Mogilev Region, Belarus, the administrative center is Klichaw. As of 2009, its population was 17,246. Population of Klichaw accounts for 43.6% of the district's population.[1]
Notable residents
- Ignacy Hryniewiecki (1855, Basin hamlet (now Kalinaǔka village) - 1881), member of the revolutionary society Narodnaya Volya who assassinated Tsar Alexander II of Russia[2]
- Arkadź Smolič (1891, Bacevičy village - 1938), Belarusian academic, active participant of the Belarusian independence movement and a victim of Stalin's purges [3]
References
- 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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