Sharkawshchyna District

Sharkawshchyna District is a second-level administrative subdivision (raion) of Belarus in the Vitebsk Region. The administrative center is the town of Sharkawshchyna.[1]

Notable residents
  • Helen Michaluk (born 1930), prominent figure of the Belarusian diaspora who was a long-standing (and the only female) head of the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain.[2]

References
  1. "Vitebsk Region government website" (in Belarusian). vitebsk-region.gov.by. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
  2. Гардзіенка, Наталля (2010). Беларусы ў Вялікабрытаніі [Belarusians in Great Britain, by Natalla Hardzijenka]. Minsk: Згуртаванне беларусаў свету Бацькаўшчына. pp. 550-551. ISBN 978-985-6887-63-8.

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