Vileyka District

Vileyka District is the second-level administrative subdivision (raion) of Belarus in the north-west of Minsk Region. The capital of the town is Vileyka.

Vileyka District
Вілейскі раён
Coat of arms of Vileyka District
Location of Vileyka District

Notable residents

  • Janka Filistovič (1926, Paniacičy village - 1953), active participant in the Belarusian independence movement and a member of the underground anti-Soviet resistance in Belarus in the 1950s.[1]
  • Piotra Sych(1912, Baturyna village - 1963) - Belarusian writer and journalist, a Gulag prisoner[2]

References

  1. Арлоў, Уладзімер (2020). ІМЁНЫ СВАБОДЫ (Бібліятэка Свабоды. ХХІ стагодзьдзе.) [Uładzimir Arłou. The Names of Freedom (The Library of Freedom. ХХІ century.)] (PDF) (in Belarusian) (4-е выд., дап. ed.). Радыё Свабодная Эўропа / Радыё Свабода - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. pp. 244–245.
  2. Пётра Сыч (Piotra Sych) (in Belarusian)


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