Krasnapolle District

Krasnapolle District (Belarusian: Краснапольскі раён, Russian: Краснопольский район, Krasnopolsky raion) is a raion (district) in Mogilev Region, Belarus, the administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Krasnapolle. As of 2009, its population was 11,176. Population of Krasnapolle accounts for 54.8% of the district's population.[1]

Notable residents

Viera Cierliukievič (1941 – 2000), political and trade union activist[2]

Andrej Mryj (1893 – 1943), satirical writer, journalist, translator and a victim of Stalin's purges.[3]

References
  1. Численность населения областей и районов: Могилевская (PDF) (in Russian). Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 18, 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
  2. The names of freedom: Viera Cierliukievič(Імёны Свабоды: Вера Церлюкевіч)
  3. Маракоў, Л[еанід] (2001). "Вядомы пад псэўданімам А.Мрый" [Known as A. Mryj]. Роднае слова (in Belarusian) (9): 97. ISSN 0234-1360.


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