Shchuchyn District

Shchuchyn District (Belarusian: Шчучынскі раён) is a district (rajon) in Grodno Region, Belarus.

The Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos (1524) in the village of Muravanka.

The administrative center is Shchuchyn.

Notable residents
  • Vaclaŭ Ivanoŭski (also known as Vatslaw Ivanowski or Wacław Iwanowski) (1880 - 1943), Belarusian political and public figure of the first half of the 20th century[1][2]
  • Alaiza Pashkevich (pen name Ciotka) (1876 – 1916), Belarusian poet and political activist of the Belarusian national movement[3]

References
  1. "Вацлаў Іваноўскі" [Vaclaŭ Ivanoŭski]. Рада Беларускай Народнай Рэспублікі // Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (in Belarusian).
  2. Wilson, Andrew (2021). Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship (New ed.). New Have and London: Yale University Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-300-25921-6.
  3. Alaiza Pashkevich (Алаіза Пашкевіч) (in Belarusian)


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